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Sun Valley Golf Course is an 18-hole course in Louisville, Kentucky.

Designed by Benjamin J. Wihry, ASGCA. It plays 6,402 yards from the Blue tees, rated 71.5/122 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
71
par
6,402
yards (tips)
122
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES388379138395424162430422511418164335359353502190375469142433445463748495104113124134144155163174185PAROUT 3,249 YDSIN 3,165 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer
Benjamin J. Wihry, ASGCA reported
address
6505 Bethany Lane, Louisville, KY, 40272
phone
502-574-6454
elevation
431 ft derived
opened
1972
on site
pro shop

38.10231, -85.88504 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 7 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

152 traced features across 8 layers for Sun Valley Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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152 traced features across 8 layers for Sun Valley Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
21
Fairways
19
Bunkers
2
Water
18
Greens
54
Tee pads
6,414yds
Blue tees
511yds
Longest hole
138yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-06-03

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 5 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

BlueM71640271.512232493165
WhiteM716039contested595869.611930612897
YellowM71542066.711328032583
RedM715005contested485769.211526742183
OrangeM71359118921722

Every figure as published except Card yards (derived), which is summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The White and Red tees publish a yardage total the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 443443445434445345 71
Blue 388379138395424162430422511418164335359353502190375469 6,402
White 369331134382413155366412499398135312324315473178349413 6,039
Yellow 336289127335384133344392463367111281268279413158319387 5,420
Red 326284123330363127335360426323105230250225274146279351 5,005
Orange 219211882772221002292433032938520818717925086224210 3,591
Handicap 913171131515741881412261016

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Sun Valley Golf Course hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

  • The approach, planned A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

Plan this course in the Studio

Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Sun Valley Golf Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Farmsley Golf Center (7.4 mi) · Fairdale Country Club (8.3 mi) · The Crossings Golf Course (9.0 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

FigureThis courseIn KentuckyNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,402 yds52nd of 94=6,769th of 12,02530th of 49 in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area · =6,707th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 122=55th of 76=6,159th of 8,710=30th of 42 in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area · =5,821st of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 71.535th of 67=4,693rd of 7,61524th of 36 in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area · =4,633rd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,811 yds between tees6th of 93=443rd of 11,5235th of 48 in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area · =436th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1972=51st of 86=4,738th of 9,368=30th of 49 in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area · =3,355th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level431 ft derived 95th of 101=7,584th of 12,43749th of 51 in the Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro area · =5,401st of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 5 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 4 sets of tees.
  • Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
  • Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold whether it is public or private and the grass on the greens.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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The Crossings Golf Course

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Shawnee Golf Course

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Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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