The toughest course in the Spokane-Spokane Valley-Coeur d'Alene, WA-ID combined area is Cda National Reserve, at slope 149 — ahead of Circling Raven Golf Club at slope 144 and Gozzer Ranch Golf Lake Club at slope 139.
All 17 courses in the area with a USGA slope rating for its men’s tees are ranked below, along with 5 more lists: hardest from the tips, longest, widest tee spread, oldest, highest above sea level.
Spokane-Spokane Valley-Coeur d'Alene, WA-ID is a combined statistical area as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates it, crossing Idaho and Washington — 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.
Toughest test
— all 17 courses with a USGA slope rating for its men’s tees
| # | Course | State | Toughest test |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cda National Reserve | ID | slope 149 |
| 2 | Circling Raven Golf Club | ID | slope 144 |
| 3 | Gozzer Ranch Golf Lake Club | ID | slope 139 |
| 4 | Kalispel Golf Country Club | WA | slope 131 |
| 4 | Liberty Lake Golf Course | WA | slope 131 |
| 4 | The Hayden Lake Country Club | ID | slope 131 |
| 7 | The Fairways | WA | slope 130 |
| 8 | Coeur Dalene Resort Golf Course | ID | slope 127 |
| 8 | The Creek at Qualchan Golf Course | WA | slope 127 |
| 10 | Avondale Golf Tennis Club | ID | slope 126 |
| 11 | Indian Canyon Golf Course | WA | slope 124 |
| 12 | Deer Park Golf Club | WA | slope 122 |
| 13 | Prairie Falls Golf Club | ID | slope 120 |
| 14 | Downriver Golf Course | WA | slope 116 |
| 15 | Wandermere Golf Course | WA | slope 113 |
| 16 | Esmeralda Golf Course | WA | slope 111 |
| 17 | Antler Springs of Chattaroy Golf Course | WA | slope 110 |
The highest USGA slope rating published for any of the men’s tee sets. Slope rates difficulty for a bogey golfer relative to a scratch golfer — a rated figure issued by the golf association, not an opinion about the course. Men’s ratings only, because a tee is rated separately for men and for women and the two scales do not compare; a course rated only for women is not in the running rather than converted.
Hardest from the tips
— all 17 courses with a USGA course rating for its men’s tees
| # | Course | State | Hardest from the tips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cda National Reserve | ID | rating 75.1 |
| 2 | Gozzer Ranch Golf Lake Club | ID | rating 74.7 |
| 3 | Circling Raven Golf Club | ID | rating 74.1 |
| 4 | Kalispel Golf Country Club | WA | rating 72.0 |
| 5 | Coeur Dalene Resort Golf Course | ID | rating 71.8 |
| 6 | Deer Park Golf Club | WA | rating 71.5 |
| 7 | Avondale Golf Tennis Club | ID | rating 71.4 |
| 8 | The Creek at Qualchan Golf Course | WA | rating 71.3 |
| 9 | Liberty Lake Golf Course | WA | rating 71.0 |
| 10 | The Fairways | WA | rating 70.9 |
| 11 | Prairie Falls Golf Club | ID | rating 70.0 |
| 12 | Indian Canyon Golf Course | WA | rating 69.8 |
| 13 | The Hayden Lake Country Club | ID | rating 69.4 |
| 14 | Downriver Golf Course | WA | rating 69.1 |
| 15 | Wandermere Golf Course | WA | rating 68.5 |
| 16 | Esmeralda Golf Course | WA | rating 68.3 |
| 17 | Antler Springs of Chattaroy Golf Course | WA | rating 64.0 |
The highest USGA course rating published for any of the men’s tee sets — the score a scratch golfer is expected to shoot. Men’s ratings only, for the same reason as slope: the men’s and women’s ratings of one tee are different measurements. It measures difficulty and nothing else; it is not a quality score and never orders these pages by how good a course is.
Longest
— all 24 courses with a published scorecard
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 23 courses with two or more tee sets of different lengths
| # | Course | State | Widest tee spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gozzer Ranch Golf Lake Club | ID | 3,228 yds between tees |
| 2 | Circling Raven Golf Club | ID | 2,481 yds between tees |
| 3 | Cda National Reserve | ID | 2,452 yds between tees |
| 4 | Coeur Dalene Resort Golf Course | ID | 2,355 yds between tees |
| 5 | Chewelah Golf Country Club | WA | 2,292 yds between tees |
| 6 | Avondale Golf Tennis Club | ID | 1,926 yds between tees |
| 7 | Coeur Dalene Golf Club | ID | 1,849 yds between tees |
| 8 | Liberty Lake Golf Course | WA | 1,601 yds between tees |
| 9 | The Hayden Lake Country Club | ID | 1,337 yds between tees |
| 10 | Manito Golf Country Club | WA | 1,303 yds between tees |
| 11 | The Fairways | WA | 1,266 yds between tees |
| 12 | Deer Park Golf Club | WA | 1,202 yds between tees |
| 13 | Kalispel Golf Country Club | WA | 1,108 yds between tees |
| 14 | The Creek at Qualchan Golf Course | WA | 997 yds between tees |
| 15 | Indian Canyon Golf Course | WA | 919 yds between tees |
| 16 | Trailhead Golf Course | WA | 906 yds between tees |
| 17 | Antler Springs of Chattaroy Golf Course | WA | 881 yds between tees |
| 18 | Esmeralda Golf Course | WA | 812 yds between tees |
| 19 | Downriver Golf Course | WA | 568 yds between tees |
| 20 | Wandermere Golf Course | WA | 425 yds between tees |
| 21 | Prairie Falls Golf Club | ID | 388 yds between tees |
| 22 | Ponderosa Golf Course | ID | 124 yds between tees |
| 22 | Ponderosa Springs Golf Course | ID | 124 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.
Oldest
— all 21 courses with an opening year
| # | Course | State | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hayden Lake Country Club | ID | opened 1907 |
| 2 | Kalispel Golf Country Club | WA | opened 1910 |
| 3 | Downriver Golf Course | WA | opened 1920 |
| 4 | Wandermere Golf Course | WA | opened 1929 |
| 5 | Indian Canyon Golf Course | WA | opened 1930 |
| 6 | Liberty Lake Golf Course | WA | opened 1955 |
| 7 | Esmeralda Golf Course | WA | opened 1956 |
| 8 | Pine Acres Par 3 Golf Course Driving Range | WA | opened 1964 |
| 9 | Avondale Golf Tennis Club | ID | opened 1967 |
| 10 | Ponderosa Springs Golf Course | ID | opened 1968 |
| 11 | Trailhead Golf Course | WA | opened 1973 |
| 12 | The Fairways | WA | opened 1987 |
| 13 | Coeur Dalene Resort Golf Course | ID | opened 1991 |
| 14 | The Creek at Qualchan Golf Course | WA | opened 1992 |
| 15 | Deer Park Golf Club | WA | opened 1996 |
| 16 | Prairie Falls Golf Club | ID | opened 1999 |
| 17 | Antler Springs of Chattaroy Golf Course | WA | opened 2001 |
| 18 | Circling Raven Golf Club | ID | opened 2003 |
| 19 | Gozzer Ranch Golf Lake Club | ID | opened 2007 |
| 19 | Pasadena Ridge Par 3 Golf Course | WA | opened 2007 |
| 21 | Cda National Reserve | ID | opened 2012 |
The year the course opened, as published. Ranked oldest first. An opening year is not a design credit and not a renovation date — a course that opened in 1921 and was rebuilt in 1998 still opened in 1921.
Highest above sea level
— all 25 courses with a coordinate we could sample
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.