Grandfather Golf & Country Club is an 18-hole private course in Linville, North Carolina.

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holes

par

7,021

yards (tips)

148

slope (black)

The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only

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: Ellis Maples reported
access: private
address: 2120 NC Highway 105 South, Linville, NC, 28646
phone: 828-898-4531
website: course site →
elevation: 3,881 ft derived
opened: 1968

36.10090, -81.84892 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 4 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

229 traced features across 8 layers for Grandfather Golf & Country Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

7,021yds

Black tees

585yds

Longest hole

155yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-10-04

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 18 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Black	M	72	7021	74.2	148	3550	3471
Black/Gold	M	72	6848	73.6	146
Gold	M	72	6639	72.7	144	3341	3298
Gold/White	M	72	6410	71.5	143
White	F	72	6219	76.9	148	3121	3098
White	M	72	6219	70.9	142	3121	3098
White/Blue	M	72	5974	69.5	136
White/Blue	F	72	5974	75.5	144
Blue	F	72	5725	74.2	139	2883	2842
Blue	M	72	5725	68.4	129	2883	2842
Blue/Green	M	72	5532	67.4	129
Blue/Green	F	72	5532	72.9	137
Green	M	72	5252	66.4	123	2563	2709
Green	F	72	5252	71.6	134	2563	2709
Green/Red	M	72	5008	65.3	121
Green/Red	F	72	5008	70.2	128
Red	M	72	4771	64.5	120	2400	2371
Red	F	72	4771	68.8	123	2400	2371

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	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	5	3	4	3	4	4	5	4	72
Black	529	390	404	454	203	567	427	368	208	395	499	176	422	155	388	435	585	416	7,021
Gold	497	381	376	431	198	532	380	348	198	375	489	156	409	147	359	401	561	401	6,639
White	460	362	332	396	174	523	366	327	181	364	450	144	373	138	347	369	536	377	6,219
Blue	451	344	318	335	165	492	334	298	146	336	428	121	321	135	329	314	510	348	5,725
Green	435	293	276	308	133	440	282	281	115	326	409	133	315	131	309	291	474	321	5,252
Red	375	289	274	299	108	421	276	257	101	242	401	81	261	99	257	287	453	290	4,771
Handicap	11	15	5	3	17	1	7	9	13	4	14	16	8	18	12	2	6	10

No per-hole yardages are published for 5 tee sets, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Grandfather Golf & Country Club hole by hole, for your game.

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The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Book nearby

Grandfather Golf & Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Linville Golf Club (3.1 mi, resort) · Linville Land Harbor Golf Club (5.0 mi, semi-private) · Mountain Glen Golf Club (5.4 mi, semi-private)

Measured against comparable courses

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

Figure	This course	In North Carolina	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	7,021 yds	=92nd of 541	=1,699th of 12,025	=623rd of 2,954 private courses · =1,692nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 148	=4th of 356	=119th of 8,710	=58th of 2,300 private courses · =118th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 74.2	=60th of 333	=1,183rd of 7,615	=514th of 2,143 private courses · =1,174th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,250 yds between tees	85th of 528	=1,252nd of 11,523	=394th of 2,885 private courses · =1,221st of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1968	=130th of 395	=4,141st of 9,368	=1,340th of 2,418 private courses · =2,920th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	3,881 ft derived	12th of 554	=716th of 12,437	132nd of 3,026 private courses · 518th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 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 10 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 18 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 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.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

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Sources

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