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

It plays 6,855 yards from the I tees, rated 74.1/144 (checked 2026-08-14).

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holes

par

6,855

yards (tips)

144

slope (i)

The shape of the round · I 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

access: semi-private
address: 4485 Golf Cottage Drive, Southport, NC, 28461
phone: 910-477-8500
website: course site →
elevation: 43 ft derived
opened: 1996
on site: restaurant

33.94652, -78.08218 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around Players 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 Players 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


I	M	72	6855	74.1	144	3348	3507
II	M	72	6324	71.6	139	3121	3203
II/III	M	72	6065	70.6	133
III	M	72	5847	69.5	129	2880	2967
III/IV	M	72	5386	67.2	122
IV	M	72	5229	66.4	119	2535	2694
IV	F	72	5229	71.7	132	2535	2694
V	M	72	4811	64.5	115
V (72)	F	72	4811	69.5	124
V (71)	F	71	4811	67.3	118
V/VI	M	72	4156	62.1	110
V/VI	F	72	4156	65.3	112
VI	F	72	3619	62.4	105
VI	M	72	3619	60.0	103

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	4	3	4	4	5	4	3	4	5	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	4	5	72
I	347	171	406	371	496	404	218	418	517	413	181	376	439	174	528	447	391	558	6,855
II	326	150	374	342	457	389	204	389	490	369	176	336	390	151	497	423	350	511	6,324
III	303	136	329	331	414	339	193	368	467	356	149	293	356	142	458	378	336	499	5,847
IV	272	115	292	298	374	309	151	341	383	329	123	290	314	108	422	334	310	464	5,229
Handicap	15	13	7	9	17	1	5	3	11	2	18	12	10	14	16	4	8	6

No per-hole yardages are published for 7 tee sets, so they are not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Players 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 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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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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Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Members Club at St James Plantation Irwin Course (2.0 mi) · Founders Club at St James Plantation (2.5 mi) · Members Club at St James Plantation Cate Nine Course (2.7 mi) · Oak Island Golf Club (3.0 mi)

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	6,855 yds	176th of 541	=2,999th of 12,025	25th of 57 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · 382nd of 2,030 semi-private courses · =1,427th of 7,004 courses you can book · =2,981st of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 144	=19th of 356	=379th of 8,710	=2nd of 39 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =27th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =109th of 4,936 courses you can book · =370th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 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 spread	3,236 yds between tees	10th of 528	214th of 11,523	2nd of 56 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · 21st of 1,970 semi-private courses · 102nd of 6,653 courses you can book · 210th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1996	=290th of 395	=7,209th of 9,368	=29th of 50 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =1,201st of 1,516 semi-private courses · =4,103rd of 5,526 courses you can book · =5,267th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	43 ft derived	465th of 554	=10,780th of 12,437	13th of 57 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =1,812th of 2,089 semi-private courses · =6,553rd of 7,274 courses you can book · =7,785th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress2 of 6 built

2 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 5 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

Reserve Club at St James Plantation

0.9 mi · St James · private · 18 holes

Members Club at St James Plantation Irwin Course

2.0 mi · Southport · semi-private · 18 holes

Founders Club at St James Plantation

2.5 mi · St James · semi-private · 18 holes

Members Club at St James Plantation Cate Nine Course

2.7 mi · Southport · semi-private · 9 holes

Oak Island Golf Club

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The Lakes Country Club

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Bald Head Island Country Club

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Lockwood Folly 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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