The longest course in the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro area is Rock Barn Golf and Spa Jones Course, at 7,169 yards — ahead of Mimosa Hills Country Club at 6,755 yards and Quaker Meadows Golf Course at 6,723 yards.
All 18 courses in the area with a published scorecard are ranked below, along with 2 more lists: widest tee spread, highest above sea level.
Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC is a metro area as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates it — the boundary is theirs, not ours. Each list counts only the courses in the area that publish that figure, so the totals differ between them. Slope and course rating measure difficulty, not quality — nothing here ranks how good a course is.
Longest
— all 18 courses with a published scorecard
| # | Course | Longest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rock Barn Golf and Spa Jones Course | 7,169 yds |
| 2 | Mimosa Hills Country Club | 6,755 yds |
| 3 | Quaker Meadows Golf Course | 6,723 yds |
| 4 | Silver Creek Plantation | 6,708 yds |
| 5 | Granada Farms Country Club | 6,661 yds |
| 6 | Catawba Country Club | 6,635 yds |
| 7 | Bushy Mountain Golf Club | 6,508 yds |
| 8 | Glen Oaks Golf Club | 6,450 yds |
| 9 | Hampton Heights Golf Course | 6,448 yds |
| 10 | Rock Barn Golf and Spa Jackson Course | 6,427 yds |
| 11 | Lenoir Golf Course | 6,372 yds |
| 12 | Orchard Hills Golf Course | 6,134 yds |
| 13 | The Coves at Round Mountain | 5,554 yds |
| 14 | Pine Mountain Golf Course | 4,949 yds |
| 15 | Lake Hickory Country Club | 3,846 yds |
| 16 | Lake Hickory Country Club at Catawba Springs Fox Run | 3,328 yds |
| 17 | Lake Hickory Country Club at Catawba Springs Sulphur Springs | 3,282 yds |
| 18 | Lake Hickory Country Club at Catawba Springs Dogwood | 3,222 yds |
The longest tee set the course publishes, in yards from the tips. Compared against every course that publishes a scorecard — length is a measurement, not a verdict on the golf.
Widest tee spread
— all 18 courses with two or more tee sets of different lengths
Yards between the longest and shortest published tee sets — how far the course moves to fit a different player. Courses publishing a single tee set are not in the running, because one set is an unmeasured spread rather than a narrow one.
Highest above sea level
— all 20 courses with a coordinate we could sample
| # | Course | Highest above sea level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orchard Hills Golf Course | 1,216 ft |
| 2 | Cedar Rock Country Club | 1,214 ft |
| 3 | The Coves at Round Mountain | 1,203 ft |
| 4 | Pine Mountain Golf Course | 1,197 ft |
| 5 | Silver Creek Plantation | 1,179 ft |
| 6 | Bushy Mountain Golf Club | 1,125 ft |
| 7 | Mimosa Hills Country Club | 1,113 ft |
| 8 | Hampton Heights Golf Course | 1,111 ft |
| 9 | Granada Farms Country Club | 1,100 ft |
| 10 | Lenoir Golf Course | 1,086 ft |
| 11 | Lake Hickory Country Club | 1,058 ft |
| 12 | Lake Hickory Country Club at Catawba Springs Dogwood | 1,054 ft |
| 13 | Lake Hickory Country Club at Catawba Springs Sulphur Springs | 1,047 ft |
| 14 | Quaker Meadows Golf Course | 1,014 ft |
| 15 | Lake Hickory Country Club at Catawba Springs Fox Run | 1,009 ft |
| 16 | Player S Ridge Golf | 1,002 ft |
| 17 | Rock Barn Golf and Spa Jackson Course | 977 ft |
| 18 | Glen Oaks Golf Club | 919 ft |
| 19 | Rock Barn Golf and Spa Jones Course | 861 ft |
| 20 | Catawba Country Club | 860 ft |
Height above sea level at the course’s own published coordinate, sampled from the USGS 3DEP elevation model. THIS IS A FIGURE WE DERIVED, not one the course publishes — anybody can re-query the same public dataset at the same coordinate and get the same number, but no scorecard states it. Because every course carries a coordinate, this is the only board here whose field is nearly the whole database rather than the courses that publish a particular figure. Elevation changes how far a ball carries; it says nothing about whether a course is good.