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Katke Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Big Rapids, Michigan.

It plays 6,900 yards from the Championship tees.

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18
holes
72
par
6,900
yards (tips)
The shape of the round · Crimson teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — CRIMSON TEES407182458370386151479173497350344349179382516363176555142335445463758395104114124133144155164173185PAROUT 3,103 YDSIN 3,214 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

access
public
address
1003 Perry Avenue, Big Rapids, MI, 49307
phone
231-591-3765
elevation
1,027 ft derived
opened
1974

43.68404, -85.50303 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 21 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

196 traced features across 8 layers for Katke Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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196 traced features across 8 layers for Katke Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
19
Fairways
54
Bunkers
5
Water
18
Greens
57
Tee pads
6,317yds
Crimson tees
555yds
Longest hole
151yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-08-18 – 2022-08-23

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 5 tee sets par, yardage — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

ChampionshipM726900
CrimsonM726377contested631731033214
SilverM725830contested564828072841
GoldM724845contested475224362316
D.O.G. TeeM722354

Every figure as published except Card yards (derived), which is summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Crimson, Silver and Gold tees publish a yardage total the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 435443535444345435 72
Crimson 407182458370386151479173497350344349179382516363176555 6,377
Silver 387165423346360126453116431316330299150328435343162478 5,830
Gold 33112339329330210641285391276253244127254386262112402 4,845
Handicap 371513191751114218681641012

No per-hole yardages are published for Championship and D.O.G. Tee, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Katke Golf Course hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

  • The approach, planned A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

Plan this course in the Studio

Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Katke Golf Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Clear Lake Golf Club (6.0 mi) · Walnut Grove Golf Course (7.3 mi) · Intimidator Golf Course (11 mi) · Saint Ives (11 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

FigureThis courseIn MichiganNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,900 yds98th of 592=2,681st of 12,02513th of 69 in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI combined area · =680th of 4,105 public courses · =1,267th of 7,004 courses you can book · =2,665th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread4,546 yds between tees1st of 56526th of 11,5231st of 67 in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI combined area · 8th of 3,841 public courses · 12th of 6,653 courses you can book · 26th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1974=261st of 475=4,995th of 9,36825th of 52 in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI combined area · =1,533rd of 3,277 public courses · =2,693rd of 5,526 courses you can book · =3,544th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level1,027 ft derived 75th of 644=3,262nd of 12,4372nd of 72 in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI combined area · =1,205th of 4,289 public courses · =2,108th of 7,274 courses you can book · =2,230th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

What's on this page

In progress3 of 6 built

3 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 3 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, not built yet.We don't have a course rating or slope for this course yet.
  • Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
  • Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect and the grass on the greens.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-14. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Nearby courses

Falcon Head Golf Club

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Clear Lake Golf Club

6.0 mi · Big Rapids · semi-private · 18 holes

Walnut Grove Golf Course

7.3 mi · Cochrane · public · 18 holes

Intimidator Golf Course

11 mi · Barton Township · public · 9 holes

Saint Ives

11 mi · Stanwood · semi-private · 18 holes

Tullymore

12 mi · Stanwood · resort · 18 holes

The Pines

13 mi · Morton Township · public · 9 holes

Whitefish Lake Golf Club

25 mi · Pierson · public · 18 holes

Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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