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Founders Club at St James Plantation is an 18-hole semi-private golf course in St James, North Carolina.

It plays 6,863 yards from the I tees, rated 74.1/137 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
6,863
yards (tips)
137
slope (i)
The shape of the round · I teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — I TEES389444176515230255434567443356500402186577460149435345142433455364748594104115124133145154163174184PAROUT 3,453 YDSIN 3,410 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

access
semi-private
address
2694 St James Drive Southeast, NC, 28461
phone
910-477-8500
elevation
13 ft derived
opened
1991
on site
restaurant

33.92769, -78.12035 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around Founders Club at St James Plantation. 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 Founders Club at St James Plantation, 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 Founders Club at St James Plantation, 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 2022-09-23

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 14 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 14 rows, showing the start of the table.

IM72686374.113734533410
IIM72627971.112831563123
II/IIIM72606670.4126
IIIM72577668.912428812895
IIIF72577674.413428812895
III/IVM72543866.8119
IVM72510465.211625672537
IVF72510470.112525672537
VF72476568.312124172348
VM72476563.711324172348
V/VIM72423662.3111
V/VIF72423665.6115
VIM72388660.910619741912
VIF72388663.010619741912

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 443534454454354344 72
I 389444176515230255434567443356500402186577460149435345 6,863
II 346413157464176250397519434320476354166529421144374339 6,279
III 303380140436143226358491404305439338149487379135330333 5,776
IV 276364121374111185329435372256395285129444342104291291 5,104
V 2683231173661071772984273342463462759939133499272286 4,765
VI 2212571132911031702333222642192972119532921292233224 3,886
Handicap 133111551719714166108218124

No per-hole yardages are published for II/III, III/IV and V/VI, so they are not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Founders Club at St James Plantation 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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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Founders Club at St James Plantation'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: Members Club at St James Plantation Irwin Course (0.7 mi) · Members Club at St James Plantation Cate Nine Course (0.9 mi) · Players Club at St James Plantation (2.5 mi) · Oak Island Golf Club (3.5 mi)

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
Longest6,863 yds=171st of 541=2,938th of 12,02523rd of 57 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =368th of 2,030 semi-private courses · =1,392nd of 7,004 courses you can book · =2,920th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 137=114th of 356=1,696th of 8,710=20th of 39 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =187th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =649th of 4,936 courses you can book · =1,658th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 74.1=63rd of 333=1,282nd of 7,615=11th of 37 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =127th of 1,141 semi-private courses · =512th of 4,145 courses you can book · =1,273rd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,977 yds between tees20th of 528346th of 11,5236th of 56 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · 49th of 1,970 semi-private courses · 167th of 6,653 courses you can book · 340th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1991=252nd of 395=6,412th of 9,368=23rd of 50 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =1,055th of 1,516 semi-private courses · =3,529th of 5,526 courses you can book · =4,615th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level13 ft derived =533rd of 554=11,871st of 12,437=53rd of 57 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =2,002nd of 2,089 semi-private courses · =7,023rd of 7,274 courses you can book · =8,672nd 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

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  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 10 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 14 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 the architect and the grass on the greens.

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Sources

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Nearby courses

Members Club at St James Plantation Irwin Course

0.7 mi · Southport · semi-private · 18 holes

Members Club at St James Plantation Cate Nine Course

0.9 mi · Southport · semi-private · 9 holes

Reserve Club at St James Plantation

2.3 mi · St James · private · 18 holes

Players Club at St James Plantation

2.5 mi · Southport · semi-private · 18 holes

Oak Island Golf Club

3.5 mi · Caswell Beach · semi-private · 18 holes

Lockwood Folly Country Club

5.9 mi · Lockwoods Folly · semi-private · 18 holes

Carolina National Golf Club Heron Nine

7.5 mi · Bolivia · public · 18 holes

Carolina National Golf Club Ibis Nine

8.2 mi · Bolivia · public · 9 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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