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River Oaks Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Cottage Grove, Minnesota.

Designed by Don Herfort, ASGCA. It plays 6,003 yards from the White tees, rated 69.3/118 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
70
par
6,003
yards (tips)
118
slope (white)
The shape of the round · White teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — WHITE TEES326160381344518400309361137385180343165527387353321406142334445564748493104113124133145154164174184PAROUT 2,936 YDSIN 3,067 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
Don Herfort, ASGCA reported
access
public
address
11099 South Highway 61, Cottage Grove, MN
phone
651-438-2121
elevation
831 ft derived
opened
1990

44.79019, -92.89115 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 10 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

205 traced features across 8 layers for River Oaks Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2021 aerial imagery.

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205 traced features across 8 layers for River Oaks Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2021 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
19
Fairways
57
Bunkers
4
Water
18
Greens
48
Tee pads
6,003yds
White tees
527yds
Longest hole
137yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2021-06-18

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 3 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 3 rows.

WhiteM70600369.311829363067
GoldM70520765.711025642643
RedM70491068.611323502560

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 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 434454443434354444 70
White 326160381344518400309361137385180343165527387353321406 6,003
Gold 281146325338419352293280130315138287158455302340311337 5,207
Red 27112231529541228228327595310135284150450297295306333 4,910
Handicap 131519351171761612182810144

Plan it in the Studio

Plan River Oaks Golf Course 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 River Oaks Golf Course'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: Hastings Country Club (4.5 mi) · Emerald Greens (5.2 mi) · Clifton Highlands Golf Club (6.7 mi) · Clifton Highlands Short Course (7.1 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn MinnesotaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,003 yds170th of 261=8,488th of 12,02588th of 116 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area · =2,478th of 4,105 public courses · =4,510th of 7,004 courses you can book · =8,411th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 118=179th of 221=6,934th of 8,710=86th of 102 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area · =1,993rd of 2,882 public courses · =3,634th of 4,936 courses you can book · =6,439th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 69.3=153rd of 172=6,526th of 7,61581st of 88 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area · =1,873rd of 2,412 public courses · =3,380th of 4,145 courses you can book · =6,381st of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,093 yds between tees=152nd of 249=7,883rd of 11,52377th of 110 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area · =2,336th of 3,841 public courses · =4,266th of 6,653 courses you can book · =7,672nd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1990165th of 240=6,280th of 9,36872nd of 108 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area · =1,949th of 3,277 public courses · =3,438th of 5,526 courses you can book · =4,506th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level831 ft derived =265th of 281=4,709th of 12,437115th of 122 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area · =1,839th of 4,289 public courses · =3,066th of 7,274 courses you can book · =3,306th 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 3 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 3 sets of tees.
  • Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
  • 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.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 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Hastings Country Club

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Emerald Greens

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Clifton Highlands Golf Club

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Clifton Highlands Short Course

7.1 mi · public · 18 holes

Prestwick Golf Club

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Clifton Hollow Golf Club

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Arbor Pointe Golf Club

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Eagle Valley Golf Course

8.3 mi · Woodbury · public · 18 holes

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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