The longest course in the Ithaca-Cortland, NY combined area is Robert Trent Jones Golf Course Cornell University, at 6,890 yards — ahead of Country Club of Ithaca The at 6,650 yards and Maple Hill Golf Club at 6,440 yards.
All 13 courses in the area with a published scorecard are ranked below, along with 2 more lists: widest tee spread, highest above sea level.
Ithaca-Cortland, NY 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 13 courses with a published scorecard
| # | Course | Longest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert Trent Jones Golf Course Cornell University | 6,890 yds |
| 2 | Country Club of Ithaca The | 6,650 yds |
| 3 | Maple Hill Golf Club | 6,440 yds |
| 4 | Trumansburg Golf Club | 6,355 yds |
| 5 | Stonehedges Golf Club | 6,336 yds |
| 6 | Cortland Country Club | 6,327 yds |
| 7 | Elm Tree Golf Course | 6,251 yds |
| 8 | Walden Oaks Country Club | 6,229 yds |
| 9 | Cedarview Golf Course | 6,164 yds |
| 10 | White Red at Willowbrook Golf Club | 6,105 yds |
| 11 | Hillendale Golf Course | 6,004 yds |
| 12 | Willowbrook Golf Club | 5,984 yds |
| 13 | Dryden Lake Golf Club | 2,630 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 13 courses with two or more tee sets of different lengths
| # | Course | Widest tee spread |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maple Hill Golf Club | 1,800 yds between tees |
| 2 | Robert Trent Jones Golf Course Cornell University | 1,780 yds between tees |
| 3 | Willowbrook Golf Club | 1,708 yds between tees |
| 4 | Country Club of Ithaca The | 1,580 yds between tees |
| 5 | Walden Oaks Country Club | 1,501 yds between tees |
| 6 | Trumansburg Golf Club | 1,409 yds between tees |
| 7 | Stonehedges Golf Club | 1,388 yds between tees |
| 8 | White Red at Willowbrook Golf Club | 1,100 yds between tees |
| 9 | Hillendale Golf Course | 893 yds between tees |
| 10 | Cedarview Golf Course | 858 yds between tees |
| 11 | Cortland Country Club | 767 yds between tees |
| 12 | Elm Tree Golf Course | 731 yds between tees |
| 13 | Dryden Lake Golf Club | 304 yds between tees |
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 14 courses with a coordinate we could sample
| # | Course | Highest above sea level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maple Hill Golf Club | 1,529 ft |
| 2 | White Red at Willowbrook Golf Club | 1,467 ft |
| 2 | Willowbrook Golf Club | 1,467 ft |
| 4 | Walden Oaks Country Club | 1,368 ft |
| 5 | Knickerbocker Country Club | 1,360 ft |
| 6 | Stonehedges Golf Club | 1,355 ft |
| 7 | Hillendale Golf Course | 1,295 ft |
| 8 | Elm Tree Golf Course | 1,278 ft |
| 9 | Dryden Lake Golf Club | 1,238 ft |
| 10 | Cortland Country Club | 1,129 ft |
| 11 | Trumansburg Golf Club | 1,012 ft |
| 12 | Robert Trent Jones Golf Course Cornell University | 947 ft |
| 13 | Country Club of Ithaca The | 946 ft |
| 14 | Cedarview Golf Course | 718 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.