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The Bluffs at the National Golf Club of Kansas City is an 18-hole private course in Parkville, Missouri.

Designed by Tom Watson. It plays 6,259 yards from the Carnoustie tees, rated 70.2/130 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
70
par
6,259
yards (tips)
130
slope (carnoustie)
The shape of the round · Carnoustie teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — CARNOUSTIE TEES386359196339381172415481415417164512394390159423162494142433445463748594104113125134144153164173185PAROUT 3,144 YDSIN 3,115 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
Tom Watson reported
access
private
address
6415 N National Dr, Parkville, MO 64152, USA
elevation
911 ft derived
opened
2001

39.21204, -94.70135 — 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 Bluffs at the National Golf Club of Kansas City 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 Bluffs at the National Golf Club of Kansas City 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 2022-07-10

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 2026-08-15

All 5 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

CarnoustieM70625970.213031443115
TurnberryM70589669.012629502946
BirkdaleF71contested70547572.212127502725
BirkdaleM70547567.012227502725
MuirfieldF71contested70461967.811222902329

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 Birkdale and Muirfield 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 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 443443454435443435 70
Carnoustie 386359196339381172415481415417164512394390159423162494 6,259
Turnberry 360327177314364150407462389387152496369380144403145470 5,896
Birkdale 326299170301337142378435362362136446343370131373132432 5,475
Muirfield 2742501072532691113093893283059538330836510130382387 4,619
Handicap 391351115117781641061421218

The Studio

The Studio can't plan The Bluffs at the National Golf Club of Kansas City 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 4,583 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

The Bluffs at the National Golf Club of Kansas City states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Tiffany Greens Golf Club (5.2 mi, semi-private) · Painted Hills Golf Club (6.2 mi, public) · Cheyenne Hills Golf Course (6.2 mi, public) · Dubs Dread Golf Club (9.8 mi, public)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn MissouriNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,259 yds71st of 132=7,552nd of 12,02637th of 62 in the Kansas City, MO-KS metro area · =2,331st of 2,954 private courses · =7,484th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 130=33rd of 97=3,777th of 8,71224th of 49 in the Kansas City, MO-KS metro area · =1,565th of 2,300 private courses · =3,684th of 7,090 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 70.2=55th of 81=5,938th of 7,61736th of 44 in the Kansas City, MO-KS metro area · =1,969th of 2,143 private courses · =5,836th of 7,035 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,640 yds between tees43rd of 124=4,497th of 11,52424th of 61 in the Kansas City, MO-KS metro area · =1,313th of 2,885 private courses · =4,428th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 2001=88th of 102=8,267th of 9,368=48th of 56 in the Kansas City, MO-KS metro area · =2,165th of 2,418 private courses · =6,126th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level911 ft derived =48th of 138=4,040th of 12,43939th of 62 in the Kansas City, MO-KS metro area · =774th of 3,026 private courses · =2,799th 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 5 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 5 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 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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Nearby courses

National Golf Club of Kansas City

0.7 mi · Parkville · private · 18 holes

Tiffany Greens Golf Club

5.2 mi · Kansas City · semi-private · 18 holes

Painted Hills Golf Club

6.2 mi · Kansas City · public · 18 holes

Cheyenne Hills Golf Course

6.2 mi · Kansas City · public · 18 holes

Dubs Dread Golf Club

9.8 mi · Kansas City · public · 18 holes

Shiloh Springs Golf Club

10 mi · Platte City · public · 18 holes

Sunflower Hills Golf Course

11 mi · Bonner Springs · public · 18 holes

Falcon Lakes Golf Course

11 mi · Basehor · 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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