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Watermark Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Designed by Mark DeVries, Bruce Matthews III, Ray Hearn. It plays 6,763 yards from the Blue tees, rated 74.2/146 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
6,763
yards (tips)
146
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES403434392137383169522374508408189342362404399554179502142434435463758495104113124134144154165173185PAROUT 3,322 YDSIN 3,339 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
Mark DeVries, Bruce Matthews III, Ray Hearn reported
access
private
address
5500 Cascade Road Southeast, Grand Rapids, MI, 49546
phone
616-949-0570
elevation
732 ft derived
opened
1954
turf
Blue Grass greens · Blue Grass fairways
on site
driving range · putting green · restaurant · lessons

42.92964, -85.53277 — 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 Watermark Country 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 Watermark Country 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 2022-08-18 – 2022-09-01

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

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 6 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 6 rows.

BlueM726763contested666174.214633223339
WhiteM726322contested623872.214231353103
Hybrid (G/W)M72602670.9140
GoldF72551273.413427832715
GoldM72551268.513627832715
RedF725224contested485271.913124852367

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 Blue, White and Red 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 444343545434444535 72
Blue 403434392137383169522374508408189342362404399554179502 6,763
White 383392379129365157501341488383178317348371370516162458 6,322
Gold 334341340109341145442309422330167279303322320425139430 5,512
Red 30332529697288133399272372320122252259288250383105388 5,224
Handicap 379171135111541416106212188

No per-hole yardages are published for Hybrid (G/W), so it is not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Watermark Country Club hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard, but nobody has traced its holes: the bunkers, water and fairway edges a plan aims around.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

  • 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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Book nearby

Watermark Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Quail Ridge Golf Club (3.9 mi, public) · Colonial Golf Course (4.4 mi, public)

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
Longest6,763 yds162nd of 592=3,820th of 12,02514th of 47 in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metro area · =1,327th of 2,954 private courses · =3,795th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 146=14th of 410=223rd of 8,7103rd of 30 in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metro area · =111th of 2,300 private courses · =218th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 74.2=52nd of 371=1,183rd of 7,6156th of 24 in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metro area · =514th of 2,143 private courses · =1,174th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,539 yds between tees=245th of 565=5,145th of 11,52323rd of 46 in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metro area · =1,505th of 2,885 private courses · =5,073rd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1954138th of 475=2,469th of 9,36810th of 37 in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metro area · =968th of 2,418 private courses · =1,771st of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level732 ft derived =406th of 644=5,500th of 12,43727th of 49 in the Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI metro area · =1,076th of 3,026 private courses · =3,889th 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 5 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 6 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, built.All 7 background details — architect, year opened, access, contact and grass.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. What's left on this course is ours to build rather than ours to be told — it comes from mapping and survey data, not from a form. Coverage sets out where the whole database stands.

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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