Petoskey - Bay View Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Bear Creek Township, Michigan.

Designed by Willie Watson and Tom Bendelow. It plays 6,249 yards from the Back tees, rated 70.4/125 (checked 2026-08-14).

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holes

par

6,249

yards (tips)

125

slope (back)

The shape of the round · Middle teespublished figures only

The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer: Willie Watson and Tom Bendelow reported
access: private
address: Hampton Road, Bear Creek Township, MI, 49770
website: course site →
elevation: 669 ft derived
opened: 1915
on site: restaurant

45.38504, -84.91951 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes, their lines predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery and numbered against the scorecard. Its greens, fairways, bunkers and water are predicted the same way.

73 features across 6 layers for Petoskey - Bay View Country Club, 1 traced and 72 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes and outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

Holes · predicted

Fairways · predicted

Bunkers · predicted

Water · predicted

Greens · predicted

6,093yds

Middle tees

527yds

Longest hole

164yds

Shortest hole

1 imported from OpenStreetMap and 72 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-09-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 7 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Back	M	72	6249	70.4	125
Middle	M	72	6051	69.5	123	3131	2962
Middle	F	72	6051	74.7	135	3131	2962
Combo	M	72	5430	66.2	114
Combo	F	72	5430	70.8	122
Forward	M	72	4829	64.3	109	2393	2453
Forward	F	72	4829	67.5	115	2393	2453

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	4	4	3	5	3	5	4	3	5	5	3	4	4	4	4	4	72
Middle	360	330	403	304	167	527	164	504	372	164	450	510	164	393	281	355	267	378	6,051
Forward	256	289	267	176	155	404	118	425	303	142	399	410	147	275	253	286	243	298	4,829
Handicap	11	15	3	9	17	1	13	5	7	18	10	2	16	6	14	4	12	8

No per-hole yardages are published for Back and Combo, so they are not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Petoskey - Bay View Country Club hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 73 of its features, 1 traced and 72 predicted by a model, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

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The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Book nearby

Petoskey - Bay View Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Crooked Tree Golf Club (5.1 mi, public) · The Heather (6.1 mi, resort) · The Moor (6.5 mi, resort) · Chestnut Valley Golf Course (6.8 mi, semi-private)

Measured against comparable courses

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

Figure	This course	In Michigan	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,249 yds	349th of 592	=7,609th of 12,025	12th of 13 in the Petoskey, MI area · 2,339th of 2,954 private courses · =7,539th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 125	=255th of 410	=5,317th of 8,710	=1,930th of 2,300 private courses · =5,092nd of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 70.4	=266th of 371	=5,771st of 7,615	=1,935th of 2,143 private courses · =5,675th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,420 yds between tees	=293rd of 565	=5,962nd of 11,523	9th of 13 in the Petoskey, MI area · =1,715th of 2,885 private courses · =5,865th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1915	=28th of 475	=544th of 9,368	=321st of 2,418 private courses · =395th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	669 ft derived	=477th of 644	=5,989th of 12,437	12th of 13 in the Petoskey, MI area · =1,191st of 3,026 private courses · =4,252nd of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 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 4 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 7 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 holes and their greens are drawn, predicted by a model from aerial imagery and shown over it.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole's line of play is predicted from aerial imagery, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along that predicted line.
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 a phone number and the grass on the greens.

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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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Chestnut Valley Golf Course

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The Moor at the Highlands Boyne

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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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