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The Prairies Golf Club is an 18-hole public course in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

It plays 6,345 yards from the Blue tees, rated 71.8/126 (checked 2026-08-24).

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18
holes
71
par
6,345
yards (tips)
126
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES429201539136483411192377514373161308364387186331417536142335435564738495104113124134144153164174185PAROUT 3,282 YDSIN 3,063 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
5303 West Main, Kalamazoo, MI, 49009
phone
269-343-3906
elevation
958 ft derived
opened
1912
turf
prairie grass fairways

42.29012, -85.65648 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

OpenStreetMap has this course's outline but has not traced any of its 18 holes. The shaded area is the property; no hole, green or tee is drawn.

The outline of The Prairies Golf Club as OpenStreetMap holds it, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. No hole, green or tee has been traced inside it.

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The outline of The Prairies Golf Club as OpenStreetMap holds it, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. No hole, green or tee has been traced inside it. The map itself needs JavaScript; the outline is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-08-24

The outline is the whole of the traced geometry here, so there is no hole or green to jump to and nothing to measure a yardage against.

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-24

Yardagesopen datachecked 2026-08-24

All 4 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 4 rows.

BlueM72contested71634571.812632823063
WhiteM72contested71604470.412331282916
GoldM72contested71553771.612129152622
RedF72contested71519771.612127152482

Every figure as published except Card par (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 Blue, White, Gold and Red tees publish a par 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 Par column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own par row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-24

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 435354345434443445 71
Blue 429201539136483411192377514373161308364387186331417536 6,345
White 406180521121466395167373499371154294352369173323407473 6,044
Gold 38618050391456378148334439358154269338314148289337415 5,537
Red 33716244484456370130306426350142252338277139232337415 5,197
Handicap 313517711591141218861014216

The Studio

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  • 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

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

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

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Also bookable nearby: Red Arrow Golf Course (4.5 mi) · Ridgeview Golf Course (5.0 mi) · Crestview Golf Club (6.9 mi) · Eastern Hills Golf Club (8.1 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
Longest6,345 yds320th of 592=7,101st of 12,02510th of 19 in the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area · =1,950th of 4,105 public courses · =3,605th of 7,004 courses you can book · =7,037th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 126=237th of 410=5,028th of 8,710=6th of 16 in the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area · =1,194th of 2,882 public courses · =2,360th of 4,936 courses you can book · =4,838th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 71.8=194th of 371=4,302nd of 7,615=5th of 15 in the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area · =1,069th of 2,412 public courses · =2,011th of 4,145 courses you can book · =4,254th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,148 yds between tees388th of 565=7,610th of 11,52311th of 19 in the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area · =2,242nd of 3,841 public courses · =4,108th of 6,653 courses you can book · =7,431st of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1912=21st of 475=450th of 9,3683rd of 19 in the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area · =54th of 3,277 public courses · =132nd of 5,526 courses you can book · =321st of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level958 ft derived =116th of 644=3,680th of 12,4371st of 20 in the Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro area · =1,379th of 4,289 public courses · =2,395th of 7,274 courses you can book · =2,535th 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 progress2 of 6 built

2 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 4 sets of tees.
  • Course map, partly built.The course's outline is drawn, but none of its 18 holes has been traced in OpenStreetMap yet.
  • Per-hole distances, not built yet.The holes aren't traced yet, so there are no measured carries or distances to the green.
  • 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.

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Sources

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Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-24. 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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