Kernwood Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Salem, Massachusetts.

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holes

par

6,402

yards (tips)

130

slope (blue)

The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only

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: Donald Ross reported
access: private
address: 1 Kernwood St, Salem, MA 01970, USA
phone: 978-745-1210
website: course site →
elevation: 55 ft derived
opened: 1914
on site: restaurant

42.54147, -70.90462 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. The green of hole 15 is predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. 9 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

166 features across 8 layers for Kernwood Country Club, 165 traced and 1 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Some outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,422yds

Blue tees

525yds

Longest hole

136yds

Shortest hole

165 imported from OpenStreetMap and 1 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-06-30

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

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


Blue	M	70		6402	72.1	130	3127	3295
Silver	M	72contested	70	6082	70.6	127	2964	3132
Gold	M	70		5967	69.8	125	2898	3069
White	M	72contested	70	5624	73.7	129	2707	2926
Red	M	72contested	70	5069	70.3	122	2417	2652

Every figure as published except Card par (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 Silver, White and Red tees publish a par 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 Par column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own par row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	5	4	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	3	4	70
Blue	490	420	418	164	390	377	390	340	138	423	424	194	525	429	377	430	136	357	6,402
Silver	490	363	389	164	390	330	360	340	138	416	404	194	469	366	377	413	136	357	6,082
Gold	477	363	389	147	367	330	360	336	129	416	388	184	469	366	368	413	121	344	5,967
White	454	350	347	127	354	281	348	324	122	413	384	151	447	359	313	409	121	329	5,624
Red	403	290	309	107	332	250	302	304	120	385	324	147	406	355	310	382	109	234	5,069
Handicap	14	2	6	16	12	8	10	4	18	5	7	15	11	3	9	1	17	13

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Kernwood Country Club 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 Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green 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.

Book nearby

Kernwood Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Beverly Golf Tennis Club (1.7 mi, public) · Olde Salem Greens Golf Course (2.5 mi, municipal) · The Meadow at Peabody (2.6 mi, municipal) · Lakeview Golf Club (3.9 mi, public)

Measured against comparable courses

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

Figure	This course	In Massachusetts	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,402 yds	156th of 348	=6,769th of 12,025	76th of 170 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area · =2,161st of 2,954 private courses · =6,707th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 130	=123rd of 319	=3,777th of 8,710	=58th of 156 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area · =1,565th of 2,300 private courses · =3,684th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 73.7	=45th of 255	=1,718th of 7,615	=26th of 128 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area · =708th of 2,143 private courses · =1,703rd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,333 yds between tees	136th of 335	=6,535th of 11,523	66th of 165 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area · 1,863rd of 2,885 private courses · =6,426th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1914	=58th of 343	=498th of 9,368	30th of 168 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area · =291st of 2,418 private courses · =356th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	55 ft derived	308th of 366	=10,630th of 12,437	152nd of 180 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area · 2,530th of 3,026 private courses · =7,679th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

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 5 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.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold 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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Beverly Golf Tennis Club

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Olde Salem Greens Golf Course

2.5 mi · Salem · municipal · 18 holes

The Meadow at Peabody

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Salem Country Club

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Tedesco Country Club

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Lakeview Golf Club

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Wenham Country Club

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Larry Gannon Municipal Golf Course

5.0 mi · Lynn · semi-private · 18 holes

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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