The longest course in the Hot Springs-Malvern, AR combined area is Diamante Country Club, at 7,560 yards — ahead of Degray Lake Golf Course at 6,935 yards and Hot Springs Country Club Park Course at 6,852 yards.
All 12 courses in the area with a published scorecard are ranked below, along with 1 more list: highest above sea level.
Hot Springs-Malvern, AR is a combined statistical 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 12 courses with a published scorecard
| # | Course | Longest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diamante Country Club | 7,560 yds |
| 2 | Degray Lake Golf Course | 6,935 yds |
| 3 | Hot Springs Country Club Park Course | 6,852 yds |
| 4 | Hot Springs Country Club Arlington Course | 6,713 yds |
| 5 | Cortez Golf Course | 6,679 yds |
| 6 | Desoto Golf Course | 6,664 yds |
| 7 | Balboa Golf Course | 6,640 yds |
| 8 | Malvern Country Club | 6,630 yds |
| 9 | Magellan Golf Course | 6,384 yds |
| 10 | Coronado Golf Course | 3,270 yds |
| 11 | Essex Park Golf Course | 2,807 yds |
| 12 | Caddo Creek Golf Club | 2,564 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.
Highest above sea level
— all 12 courses with a coordinate we could sample
| # | Course | Highest above sea level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Desoto Golf Course | 837 ft |
| 2 | Cortez Golf Course | 647 ft |
| 3 | Diamante Country Club | 609 ft |
| 4 | Coronado Golf Course | 603 ft |
| 5 | Balboa Golf Course | 586 ft |
| 6 | Magellan Golf Course | 509 ft |
| 7 | Hot Springs Country Club Arlington Course | 503 ft |
| 8 | Caddo Creek Golf Club | 489 ft |
| 9 | Hot Springs Country Club Park Course | 487 ft |
| 10 | Degray Lake Golf Course | 475 ft |
| 11 | Malvern Country Club | 390 ft |
| 12 | Essex Park Golf Course | 316 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.