Castle Highlands Golf Course is an 18-hole semi-private course in Minnesota.

It plays 5,912 yards from the Championship tees, rated 69.6/123 (checked 2026-08-15).

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holes

par

5,912

yards (tips)

123

slope (championship)

The shape of the round · Championship 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

access: semi-private
address: Turtle River Lake Road Northeast, MN
elevation: 1,344 ft derived
opened: 1970

47.60808, -94.75174 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows 17 of 18 holes. OpenStreetMap has not traced hole 14. 5 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one. The map below draws everything that has been traced.

121 traced features across 7 layers for Castle Highlands Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2021 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

5,349yds

Championship tees

506yds

Longest hole

130yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2021-07-24

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

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


Championship	M	71contested	72	5912	69.6	123	3019	2890
Men	M	71contested	72	5594	68.2	121	2923	2671
Senior	M	71contested	72	5231	67.1	118	2728	2503
Ladies	M	71contested	72	4732	68.7	121	2474	2258

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 Championship, Men, Senior and Ladies 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 2026-08-15

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	3	5	5	3	5	4	4	3	5	3	4	3	4	5	3	4	4	5	72
Championship	180	476	506	130	435	405	257	164	466	208	290	136	327	560	179	382	362	446	5,912
Men	166	461	470	127	432	403	250	161	453	200	285	130	290	512	164	348	329	413	5,594
Senior	166	455	450	127	350	359	220	161	440	190	285	130	260	470	155	340	315	358	5,231
Ladies	136	360	405	125	308	359	220	161	400	164	285	126	244	412	137	317	303	270	4,732
Handicap	12	4	6	16	10	2	18	14	8	9	17	13	15	1	11	5	7	3

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Castle Highlands Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 121 traced features, 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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Measured against comparable courses

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

Figure	This course	In Minnesota	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	5,912 yds	173rd of 261	8,604th of 12,025	1,391st of 2,030 semi-private courses · 4,595th of 7,004 courses you can book · 8,525th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 123	=149th of 221	=5,905th of 8,710	=878th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =2,918th of 4,936 courses you can book · =5,611th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 69.6	=150th of 172	=6,380th of 7,615	=954th of 1,141 semi-private courses · =3,281st of 4,145 courses you can book · =6,245th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,180 yds between tees	138th of 249	=7,433rd of 11,523	=1,222nd of 1,970 semi-private courses · =4,012th of 6,653 courses you can book · =7,273rd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1970	=119th of 240	=4,455th of 9,368	=765th of 1,516 semi-private courses · =2,340th of 5,526 courses you can book · =3,157th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	1,344 ft derived	40th of 281	=1,957th of 12,437	318th of 2,089 semi-private courses · =1,222nd of 7,274 courses you can book · =1,342nd of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

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.17 of the 18 greens are drawn — the rest of the course isn't mapped yet.
Per-hole distances, not built yet.We can't tie the mapped playing line to the published hole distances, so we're not showing distances here.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, partly built.3 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect, a website and a phone number, and 1 more.

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Sources

Gathered from the course's own published information 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 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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