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Cullasaja Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Highlands, North Carolina.

Designed by Arnold Palmer. It plays 6,828 yards from the Gold tees, rated 72.9/143 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
6,828
yards (tips)
143
slope (gold)
The shape of the round · Gold teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — GOLD TEES408513169401526457187353357419367400539190533340210443142533445564738494104114124135143155164173184PAROUT 3,371 YDSIN 3,441 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
Arnold Palmer reported
access
private
address
1371 Cullasaja Club Dr, Highlands, NC 28741, USA
elevation
4,092 ft derived
opened
1989
on site
restaurant

35.08671, -83.16578 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around Cullasaja Club. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it, and the frame follows the course's location rather than a surveyed property line.

Aerial imagery of the area around Cullasaja Club, NAIP 2022. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it.

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Aerial imagery of the area around Cullasaja Club, NAIP 2022. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it. The map itself needs JavaScript.

Aerial imagery only, nothing traced over it yet · USDA NAIP 2022-10-06

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

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

Sorted by Yards, descending. 7 rows.

GoldM72682872.914333713441
BlueM72639970.813831333232
BlackM72601869.1130
WhiteM72563168.0123
WhiteF72563173.1142
GreenM72526666.0117
RedF72471568.9125

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 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 453454344444535434 72
Gold 408513169401526457187353357419367400539190533340210443 6,828
Blue 361486145381496419177330338388341362510177514321199420 6,399
Handicap 148106421812165151311171793

No per-hole yardages are published for 4 tee sets, so they are not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Cullasaja Club 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 4,579 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.

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Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn North CarolinaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,828 yds=185th of 541=3,239th of 12,025=1,134th of 2,954 private courses · =3,217th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 143=30th of 356=487th of 8,710=232nd of 2,300 private courses · =477th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 72.9=160th of 333=2,810th of 7,615=1,136th of 2,143 private courses · =2,785th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,113 yds between tees120th of 528=1,716th of 11,523=522nd of 2,885 private courses · =1,679th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1989=234th of 395=6,132nd of 9,368=1,794th of 2,418 private courses · =4,385th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level4,092 ft derived 6th of 554=667th of 12,437123rd of 3,026 private courses · 486th 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 2 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 7 sets of tees.
  • Course map, not built yet.We don't have a map of this course 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.

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Sources

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