The longest course in the New Bern-Morehead City, NC combined area is The Beaufort Club, at 7,210 yards — ahead of Silver Creek Golf Club at 7,005 yards and The Emerald Golf Club at 6,924 yards.
All 14 courses in the area with a published scorecard are ranked below, along with 2 more lists: widest tee spread, highest above sea level.
New Bern-Morehead City, NC 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 14 courses with a published scorecard
| # | Course | Longest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Beaufort Club | 7,210 yds |
| 2 | Silver Creek Golf Club | 7,005 yds |
| 3 | The Emerald Golf Club | 6,924 yds |
| 4 | Taberna Country Club | 6,911 yds |
| 5 | Morehead City Country Club | 6,800 yds |
| 6 | Lakes Pines at Star Hill Golf Country Club | 6,651 yds |
| 7 | Sound of Freedom Golf Course | 6,632 yds |
| 8 | Sands Lakes at Star Hill Golf Country Club | 6,625 yds |
| 9 | Pines Sands at Star Hill Golf Country Club | 6,514 yds |
| 10 | River Bend Country Club | 6,504 yds |
| 11 | Minnesott Golf Country Club | 6,448 yds |
| 12 | Brandywine Bay Golf Club | 6,330 yds |
| 13 | New Bern Golf & Country Club | 6,132 yds |
| 14 | Crystal Coast Country Club | 6,004 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 14 courses with two or more tee sets of different lengths
| # | Course | Widest tee spread |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | River Bend Country Club | 2,758 yds between tees |
| 2 | The Emerald Golf Club | 2,721 yds between tees |
| 3 | Lakes Pines at Star Hill Golf Country Club | 2,526 yds between tees |
| 4 | Morehead City Country Club | 2,125 yds between tees |
| 5 | The Beaufort Club | 2,080 yds between tees |
| 6 | Brandywine Bay Golf Club | 2,056 yds between tees |
| 7 | Minnesott Golf Country Club | 2,043 yds between tees |
| 7 | Silver Creek Golf Club | 2,043 yds between tees |
| 9 | Pines Sands at Star Hill Golf Country Club | 1,987 yds between tees |
| 10 | Sands Lakes at Star Hill Golf Country Club | 1,852 yds between tees |
| 11 | Taberna Country Club | 1,834 yds between tees |
| 12 | Sound of Freedom Golf Course | 1,493 yds between tees |
| 13 | Crystal Coast Country Club | 1,188 yds between tees |
| 14 | New Bern Golf & Country Club | 988 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 | Pines Sands at Star Hill Golf Country Club | 36 ft |
| 2 | Silver Creek Golf Club | 32 ft |
| 3 | The Emerald Golf Club | 30 ft |
| 4 | Sands Lakes at Star Hill Golf Country Club | 22 ft |
| 5 | Lakes Pines at Star Hill Golf Country Club | 20 ft |
| 6 | Taberna Country Club | 17 ft |
| 7 | Brandywine Bay Golf Club | 16 ft |
| 8 | New Bern Golf & Country Club | 15 ft |
| 9 | Crystal Coast Country Club | 12 ft |
| 10 | Minnesott Golf Country Club | 11 ft |
| 10 | Morehead City Country Club | 11 ft |
| 10 | River Bend Country Club | 11 ft |
| 13 | The Beaufort Club | 9 ft |
| 14 | Sound of Freedom Golf Course | 2 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.