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The Heather is an 18-hole resort golf course in Harbor Springs, Michigan.

Designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr.. It plays 7,143 yards from the Brown tees, rated 75.4/147 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
7,143
yards (tips)
147
slope (brown)
The shape of the round · Brown teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BROWN TEES383397403202560161406450617416550174419418506196403482142434435563748495104115123134144155163174184PAROUT 3,579 YDSIN 3,564 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

designer
Robert Trent Jones Sr. reported
access
resort
address
1343 Heather Drive, Harbor Springs, MI, 49740
phone
800-462-6963
elevation
756 ft derived
opened
1966
on site
restaurant · lessons

45.47299, -84.93021 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 7 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

191 traced features across 8 layers for The Heather, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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

18
Holes
15
Fairways
60
Bunkers
10
Water
18
Greens
52
Tee pads
7,143yds
Brown tees
617yds
Longest hole
161yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-08-12 – 2022-09-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 9 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 9 rows, showing the start of the table.

BrownM72714375.414735793564
PurpleM72664772.714333133334
OrangeM72620770.313930503157
BlueM72601369.413529813032
BlueF72601375.414029813032
GreenM72574368.313028142929
GreenF72574373.913728142929
SilverM72484564.012024482397
SilverF72484568.612324482397

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 — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 444353445453445344 72
Brown 383397403202560161406450617416550174419418506196403482 7,143
Purple 373376373182539151371387561384510170414385482181374434 6,647
Orange 342362341162467139353363521379496153386354466162346415 6,207
Blue 342322341133467139353363521350496130364339466149346392 6,013
Green 328322325133424129333338482350448130364339447149310392 5,743
Silver 3113022871123709628828140132938278252293359137270297 4,845
Handicap 155131111773961816810214124

Plan it in the Studio

Plan The Heather 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 The Heather'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: The Moor (0.5 mi) · The Moor at the Highlands Boyne (0.9 mi) · Donald Ross Memorial (1.4 mi) · Arthur Hills (1.6 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
Longest7,143 yds20th of 592=871st of 12,0252nd of 13 in the Petoskey, MI area · 80th of 601 resort courses · =365th of 7,004 courses you can book · =869th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 147=7th of 410=161st of 8,710=10th of 477 resort courses · =41st of 4,936 courses you can book · =159th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 75.4=8th of 371=313th of 7,615=21st of 446 resort courses · =96th of 4,145 courses you can book · =311th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,298 yds between tees36th of 565=1,114th of 11,5233rd of 13 in the Petoskey, MI area · =78th of 593 resort courses · =519th of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,084th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1966=204th of 475=3,897th of 9,368=115th of 516 resort courses · =1,972nd of 5,526 courses you can book · =2,747th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level756 ft derived 386th of 644=5,328th of 12,4377th of 13 in the Petoskey, MI area · =334th of 616 resort courses · =3,472nd of 7,274 courses you can book · =3,763rd 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 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 9 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 9 sets of tees.
  • 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.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold 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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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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