River Bend Ymca Golf Course is an 18-hole semi-private course in Shelby, North Carolina.

It plays 6,759 yards from the Black tees, rated 72.5/134 (checked 2026-08-14).

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holes

par

6,759

yards (tips)

134

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

access: semi-private
address: Longwood Drive, Shelby, NC, 28152
phone: 704-482-4286
website: course site →
elevation: 812 ft derived
opened: 1966
on site: driving range · lessons

35.25006, -81.58852 — 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.

166 traced features across 8 layers for River Bend Ymca Golf Course, 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

6,736yds

Black tees

554yds

Longest hole

151yds

Shortest hole

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

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 4 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Black	M	72	6759		72.5	134	3444	3292
White	M	72	6222		69.8	130	3128	3064
Gray	M	72	5532contested	5633	67.0	119	2807	2826
Red	M	72	5023		64.5	111	2506	2545

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 Gray 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	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	5	3	4	3	5	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	4	72
Black	403	551	245	385	151	543	415	371	380	522	350	186	375	359	554	180	376	390	6,759
White	386	531	180	343	141	491	370	340	346	499	325	168	350	341	505	154	359	363	6,222
Gray	366	495	166	311	130	402	341	278	318	489	313	150	326	331	484	130	321	282	5,532
Red	316	461	118	280	119	392	314	238	268	467	301	111	301	321	416	103	255	270	5,023
Handicap	7	3	17	13	15	5	9	1	11	8	14	16	4	12	6	18	2	10

The Studio

The Studio can't plan River Bend Ymca Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 166 traced features, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

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.

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to River Bend Ymca Golf Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Challenger 3 Golf Course (7.8 mi) · Deer Brook Golf Club (8.2 mi) · Woodbridge Golf Links (8.7 mi) · Dogwood Valley Golf Course (12 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	6,759 yds	215th of 541	=3,850th of 12,025	49th of 110 in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area · 500th of 2,030 semi-private courses · =1,826th of 7,004 courses you can book · =3,825th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 134	=170th of 356	=2,523rd of 8,710	=38th of 67 in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area · =299th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =1,046th of 4,936 courses you can book · =2,467th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 72.5	=180th of 333	=3,344th of 7,615	=44th of 65 in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area · =427th of 1,141 semi-private courses · =1,492nd of 4,145 courses you can book · =3,312th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,736 yds between tees	=282nd of 528	=3,874th of 11,523	=51st of 106 in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area · 594th of 1,970 semi-private courses · =1,992nd of 6,653 courses you can book · =3,816th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1966	=118th of 395	=3,897th of 9,368	30th of 76 in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area · =652nd of 1,516 semi-private courses · =1,972nd of 5,526 courses you can book · =2,747th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	812 ft derived	156th of 554	=4,876th of 12,437	37th of 113 in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area · =822nd of 2,089 semi-private courses · =3,163rd of 7,274 courses you can book · =3,431st 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 4 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 4 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.

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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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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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