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Old Chatham Golf Club is an 18-hole private course in Durham, North Carolina.

It plays 7,210 yards from the Championship tees, rated 75.2/140 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
7,210
yards (tips)
140
slope (championship)
The shape of the round · Championship teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — CHAMPIONSHIP TEES577178365447424560219406400365622238455510442362214463152334445465738494104115123134145154164173184PAROUT 3,576 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

access
private
address
1480 O'Kelly Chapel Road, Durham, NC, 27713
phone
919-361-1400
elevation
278 ft derived
opened
2001

35.84213, -78.93451 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 8 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

245 traced features across 8 layers for Old Chatham Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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

18
Holes
20
Fairways
75
Bunkers
5
Water
18
Greens
96
Tee pads
7,247yds
Championship tees
622yds
Longest hole
178yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-09-14

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.

ChampionshipM72721075.214035763671
BlackM727080contested702673.412934583568
GreenM726606contested652670.912632073319
OrangeM726222contested574768.912127782969
OrangeF726222contested574775.312927782969
GoldM725291contested520764.810825502657
GoldF725291contested520769.311925502657

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. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Black, Green, Orange and Gold 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 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 534445344453454434 72
Championship 577178365447424560219406400365622238455510442362214463 7,210
Black 577160353433410545205389386365610214449495425362199449 7,080
Green 527151338390392523173351362333576190414477396348182403 6,606
Orange 439132315344357446157312276313471163359462380312145364 6,222
Gold 439115274344325446103279225260471140327419340245120335 5,291
Handicap 917133511511712216410614188

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Old Chatham Golf 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

Plan this course in the Studio

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

Old Chatham Golf Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Unc Finley Golf Course (6.2 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
Longest7,210 yds=29th of 541=614th of 12,0252nd of 17 in the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro area · 234th of 2,954 private courses · =613th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 140=58th of 356=932nd of 8,7105th of 13 in the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro area · =418th of 2,300 private courses · =912th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 75.2=15th of 333=404th of 7,615=2nd of 44 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · =178th of 2,143 private courses · =401st of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,919 yds between tees195th of 528=2,724th of 11,5236th of 17 in the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro area · 843rd of 2,885 private courses · =2,678th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 2001=352nd of 395=8,267th of 9,36812th of 13 in the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro area · =2,165th of 2,418 private courses · =6,126th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level278 ft derived =371st of 554=8,545th of 12,43716th of 17 in the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro area · =1,902nd of 3,026 private courses · =6,120th 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 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 7 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 7 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.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect and the grass on the greens.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

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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Governors Club Mountain Course

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Chapel Hill Country Club

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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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