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Top of the Rock Golf Course is a 9-hole resort course in Hollister, Missouri.

Designed by Jack Nicklaus. It plays 1,420 yards from the Black tees.

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9
holes
27
par
1,420
yards (tips)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES171114202191123121152183163132333435363738393PAROUT 678 YDSIN 742 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 9 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer
Jack Nicklaus reported
access
resort
address
150 Top of the Rock Road, Hollister, MO, 65739
elevation
1,345 ft derived
opened
1996

36.54284, -93.24907 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 9 holes. The green of hole 6 is predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. 35 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

158 features across 8 layers for Top of the Rock Golf Course, 157 traced and 1 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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158 features across 8 layers for Top of the Rock Golf Course, 157 traced and 1 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Some outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

9
Holes
19
Fairways
54
Bunkers
10
Water
9
Greens
48
Tee pads
1,420yds
Black tees
202yds
Longest hole
114yds
Shortest hole

157 imported from OpenStreetMap and 1 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-06-30

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 3 tee sets par, yardage — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 3 rows.

BlackM271420
BronzeM271284
RedF27945contested885

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.

The 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 — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789 Total
Par 333333333 27
Black 171114202191123121152183163 1,420
Bronze 162103185178111101131166147 1,284
Red 1237511883918460145106 945
Handicap 691538427

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Top of the Rock Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 158 of its features, 157 traced and 1 predicted by a model, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

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.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Top of the Rock 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: Payne S Valley (3.0 mi) · Cliffhangers Golf Course (3.2 mi) · Ozarks National (3.6 mi) · Buffalo Ridge Springs Golf Course (3.8 mi)

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
Longest1,420 yds125th of 13211,753rd of 12,025592nd of 601 resort courses · 6,827th of 7,004 courses you can book · 116th of 357 par-3 courses · 6th of 12 Missouri par-3 courses
Widest tee spread475 yds between tees111th of 124=10,238th of 11,523566th of 593 resort courses · =5,744th of 6,653 courses you can book · 49th of 206 par-3 courses
Oldestopened 1996=75th of 102=7,209th of 9,368=369th of 516 resort courses · =4,103rd of 5,526 courses you can book · =223rd of 316 par-3 courses
Highest above sea level1,345 ft derived 2nd of 1381,956th of 12,437178th of 616 resort courses · 1,221st of 7,274 courses you can book · 55th of 388 par-3 courses · 1st of 12 Missouri par-3 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, not built yet.We don't have a course rating or slope for this course yet.
  • Course map, built.All 9 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.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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Payne S Valley

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Mountain Top Course

3.2 mi · Hollister · 18 holes

Ozarks National

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Buffalo Ridge Springs Golf Course

3.8 mi · Hollister · public · 18 holes

The Pointe Golf Course

4.3 mi · Branson · resort · 18 holes

Thousand Hills Resort Golf Club

6.3 mi · Branson · 18 holes

Holiday Hills Golf Course

7.2 mi · Branson · private · 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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