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Governors Club Lakes Course is a 9-hole private golf course in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Designed by Jack Nicklaus. It plays 3,502 yards from the Black tees, slope 144 (checked 2026-08-14).

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9
holes
36
par
3,502
yards (tips)
144
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES403376506202441410538463163142435435464758493PAROUT 1,487 YDSIN 2,015 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
private
address
Dobbs, Chapel Hill, NC, 27517
phone
919-933-7500
elevation
282 ft derived
opened
1990

35.83834, -79.03642 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around Governors Club Lakes Course. 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 Governors Club Lakes Course, 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 Governors Club Lakes Course, 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 2022-09-14 – 2022-09-27

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 6 tee sets par, yardage, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 6 rows.

BlackM363502144
GoldM363356137
BlueM363178132
WhiteM363019127
GreenM362805contested2725123
RedF362612124

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 Green 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 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789 Total
Par 445344543 36
Black 403376506202441410538463163 3,502
Gold 386357488189426396516440158 3,356
Blue 366342466163407356492423163 3,178
White 348317427148389349470408163 3,019
Green 310265425111352313417388144 2,805
Red 30826338410935031141538686 2,612
Handicap 5317117151319

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Governors Club Lakes Course 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 nearby

Governors Club Lakes Course states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: The Preserve at Jordan Lake Golf Club (4.1 mi, semi-private) · Unc Finley Golf Course (4.1 mi, public) · Twin Lakes Golf Course (4.9 mi, public)

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
Longest3,502 yds478th of 5419,413th of 12,02516th of 17 in the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro area · 2,584th of 2,954 private courses · 92nd of 1,791 9-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 144=19th of 356=379th of 8,710=1st of 13 in the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro area · =190th of 2,300 private courses · 7th of 972 9-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread890 yds between tees477th of 528=8,749th of 11,52316th of 17 in the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro area · 2,415th of 2,885 private courses · =201st of 1,640 9-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1990=243rd of 395=6,280th of 9,36810th of 13 in the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro area · =1,833rd of 2,418 private courses · =1,101st of 1,347 9-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level282 ft derived 368th of 554=8,518th of 12,43715th of 17 in the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro area · =1,890th of 3,026 private courses · 1,472nd of 1,830 9-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 progress1 of 6 built

1 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 6 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, 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.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

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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 2026-08-14. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Nearby courses

Governors Club Mountain Course

1.2 mi · Chapel Hill · private · 9 holes

The Preserve at Jordan Lake Golf Club

4.1 mi · Chapel Hill · semi-private · 18 holes

Unc Finley Golf Course

4.1 mi · Chapel Hill · public · 18 holes

Twin Lakes Golf Course

4.9 mi · Chapel Hill · public · 9 holes

Old Chatham Golf Club

5.7 mi · Durham · private · 18 holes

Chapel Hill Country Club

5.8 mi · Chapel Hill · private · 18 holes

Hope Valley Country Club

9.0 mi · Durham · private · 18 holes

The Fairways at Prestonwood Country Club

11 mi · Cary · 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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