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Lake at Carolina Trace Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Sanford, North Carolina.

Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr.. It plays 7,263 yards from the Championship tees, rated 76/143 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
7,263
yards (tips)
143
slope (championship)
The shape of the round · Championship teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — CHAMPIONSHIP TEES401430547399429199547224416419421422229576209448394553142435445463758394104114124133145153164174185PAROUT 3,592 YDSIN 3,671 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
Robert Trent Jones, Sr. reported
access
private
address
Traceway North, Sanford, NC, 27332
phone
919-499-5121
elevation
300 ft derived
opened
1971
on site
restaurant

35.40682, -79.11169 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 6 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

156 traced features across 8 layers for Lake at Carolina Trace Country Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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156 traced features across 8 layers for Lake at Carolina Trace Country Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
18
Fairways
65
Bunkers
2
Water
18
Greens
18
Tee pads
7,263yds
Championship tees
576yds
Longest hole
199yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-09-02

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 9 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 9 rows, showing the start of the table.

ChampionshipM72726376.014335923671
BlackM72688174.213934343447
BlueM72644771.613431973250
BlueF72644778.315031973250
WhiteM72597269.413029613011
WhiteF72597275.914429613011
GoldM72544367.412126782765
GoldF72544373.113726782765
RedF72476469.312822852479

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 — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 445443534444353445 72
Championship 401430547399429199547224416419421422229576209448394553 7,263
Black 364404540395412192522195410380412409222551190392382509 6,881
Blue 341380511372404157479173380346384396195543172382350482 6,447
White 335346475334379135461149347317355357170512142347337474 5,972
Gold 293286413302373113448131319309321319149482131313297444 5,443
Red 28125634823130696397110260269268252139432120272292435 4,764
Handicap 133795171151112144162186108

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Lake at Carolina Trace Country Club hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

  • 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

Lake at Carolina Trace Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Tobacco Road Golf Club (5.8 mi, public) · Quail Ridge Golf Club (7.2 mi, semi-private) · Pine Burr Golf Course (17 mi, semi-private)

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
Longest7,263 yds13th of 541440th of 12,0252nd of 66 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · 175th of 2,954 private courses · 440th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 143=30th of 356=487th of 8,7106th of 51 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · =232nd of 2,300 private courses · =477th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 76.05th of 333=180th of 7,6151st of 44 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · =78th of 2,143 private courses · =180th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,499 yds between tees53rd of 528=741st of 11,52311th of 64 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · =231st of 2,885 private courses · =724th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1971=156th of 395=4,617th of 9,36820th of 56 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · =1,431st of 2,418 private courses · =3,267th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level300 ft derived 362nd of 554=8,397th of 12,43743rd of 67 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · =1,852nd of 3,026 private courses · =6,012th 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 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 9 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 9 sets of tees.
  • Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
  • Per-hole distances, not built yet.We can't tie the mapped playing line to the published hole distances, so we're not showing distances here.
  • 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

Creek at Carolina Trace Country Club

1.6 mi · Sanford · private · 18 holes

Tobacco Road Golf Club

5.8 mi · Sanford · public · 18 holes

Quail Ridge Golf Club

7.2 mi · Sanford · semi-private · 18 holes

Sanford Golf Course

8.2 mi · Sanford · 18 holes

Carolina Lakes Golf Club

8.9 mi · Sanford · 18 holes

Anderson Creek Club

11 mi · Spring Lake · 18 holes

Woodlake Country Club

12 mi · Vass · 18 holes

Pine Burr Golf Course

17 mi · Lillington · semi-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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