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Valleywood Golf Course is an 18-hole course in Apple Valley, Minnesota.

Designed by Don Herfort. It plays 6,425 yards from the Black tees, rated 70.7/127 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
71
par
6,425
yards (tips)
127
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES349153395473320333184434450386168505200356501400418400142334455464738494104113125133144155164174184PAROUT 3,091 YDSIN 3,334 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 reported
address
Drayton Trail, Apple Valley, MN, 55068
elevation
1,001 ft derived
opened
1975
on site
driving range

44.77159, -93.15886 — 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.

130 traced features across 7 layers for Valleywood Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2021 aerial imagery.

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

18
Holes
20
Fairways
10
Bunkers
13
Water
18
Greens
32
Tee pads
6,425yds
Black tees
505yds
Longest hole
153yds
Shortest hole

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

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 7 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 7 rows.

BlackM71642570.712730913334
PurpleF71605373.7128
PurpleM71605368.9121
GreenM72539165.8105
GreenF72539170.2120
OrangeM72492764.7102
OrangeF72492768.9118

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

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 434544344435345444 71
Black 349153395473320333184434450386168505200356501400418400 6,425
Handicap 414818161012627171513119135

No per-hole yardages are published for Purple, Green and Orange, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Valleywood 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 Valleywood 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: Crystal Lake Golf Club (6.3 mi) · Inver Wood Golf Course (6.3 mi) · Arbor Pointe Golf Club (6.6 mi) · Southern Hills Golf Course (6.7 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
Longest6,425 yds119th of 261=6,591st of 12,02565th of 116 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area · =6,532nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 127=120th of 221=4,741st of 8,710=59th of 102 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area · =4,585th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 70.7=129th of 172=5,537th of 7,615=71st of 88 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area · =5,450th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,498 yds between tees83rd of 249=5,427th of 11,52343rd of 110 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area · =5,352nd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1975=141st of 240=5,113th of 9,368=53rd of 108 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area · =3,633rd of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level1,001 ft derived =154th of 281=3,415th of 12,43725th of 122 in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area · =2,343rd 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 1 set of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 7 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.4 of 7 background details — we don't hold whether it is public or private, a phone number and 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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Arbor Pointe Golf Club

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Southern Hills Golf Course

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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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