The longest course in the Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro area is Sonoma Golf Club, at 7,082 yards — ahead of Rooster Run Golf Club at 7,001 yards and The Fountaingrove Club at 6,940 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.
Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA 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 14 courses with a published scorecard
| # | Course | Longest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sonoma Golf Club | 7,082 yds |
| 2 | Rooster Run Golf Club | 7,001 yds |
| 3 | The Fountaingrove Club | 6,940 yds |
| 4 | Santa Rosa Country Club | 6,688 yds |
| 4 | Santa Rosa Golf Country Club | 6,688 yds |
| 6 | Windsor Golf Club | 6,599 yds |
| 7 | Bennett Valley Golf Course | 6,527 yds |
| 8 | Valley of the Moon Golf Club | 6,359 yds |
| 9 | The Links at Bodega Harbour | 6,284 yds |
| 10 | Sebastopol Golf Course | 2,992 yds |
| 11 | Northwood Golf Club | 2,893 yds |
| 12 | Mount Saint Helena Golf Course | 2,759 yds |
| 13 | Healdsburg Golf Club at Tayman Park | 2,622 yds |
| 14 | Fairgrounds Golf Center | 1,500 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 | The Fountaingrove Club | 3,776 yds between tees |
| 2 | Valley of the Moon Golf Club | 2,606 yds between tees |
| 3 | Sonoma Golf Club | 1,848 yds between tees |
| 4 | Windsor Golf Club | 1,573 yds between tees |
| 5 | Santa Rosa Country Club | 1,536 yds between tees |
| 5 | Santa Rosa Golf Country Club | 1,536 yds between tees |
| 7 | Rooster Run Golf Club | 1,495 yds between tees |
| 8 | Bennett Valley Golf Course | 1,418 yds between tees |
| 9 | The Links at Bodega Harbour | 1,397 yds between tees |
| 10 | Northwood Golf Club | 910 yds between tees |
| 11 | Healdsburg Golf Club at Tayman Park | 332 yds between tees |
| 12 | Fairgrounds Golf Center | 325 yds between tees |
| 13 | Mount Saint Helena Golf Course | 280 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 | The Fountaingrove Club | 563 ft |
| 2 | Valley of the Moon Golf Club | 459 ft |
| 3 | Mount Saint Helena Golf Course | 371 ft |
| 4 | Bennett Valley Golf Course | 277 ft |
| 5 | Healdsburg Golf Club at Tayman Park | 201 ft |
| 6 | Sonoma Golf Club | 181 ft |
| 7 | Fairgrounds Golf Center | 169 ft |
| 8 | Rooster Run Golf Club | 100 ft |
| 9 | Santa Rosa Country Club | 99 ft |
| 9 | Santa Rosa Golf Country Club | 99 ft |
| 9 | Windsor Golf Club | 99 ft |
| 12 | Sebastopol Golf Course | 84 ft |
| 13 | The Links at Bodega Harbour | 81 ft |
| 14 | Northwood Golf Club | 50 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.