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Royster Memorial Golf Course is a 9-hole course in Shelby, North Carolina.

It plays 2,911 yards from the Blue tees, rated 68.2/123 (checked 2026-08-24).

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9
holes
36
par
2,911
yards (tips)
123
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · White teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — WHITE TEES343191291461263157428274245142334455463758494PAROUT 1,286 YDSIN 1,367 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 9 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

address
850 West Sumter Street, Shelby, NC, 28150
elevation
831 ft derived
opened
1948

35.29881, -81.55892 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

OpenStreetMap has this course's outline but has not traced any of its 9 holes. The shaded area is the property; no hole, green or tee is drawn.

The outline of Royster Memorial Golf Course as OpenStreetMap holds it, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. No hole, green or tee has been traced inside it.

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The outline of Royster Memorial Golf Course as OpenStreetMap holds it, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. No hole, green or tee has been traced inside it. The map itself needs JavaScript; the outline is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

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

The outline is the whole of the traced geometry here, so there is no hole or green to jump to and nothing to measure a yardage against.

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-24

Yardagesopen datachecked 2026-08-24

All 3 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 3 rows.

BlueM35291168.2123
WhiteM35contested362797contested265366.6117
RedM35contested36214366.0110

Every figure as published except Card par (derived) and Card yards (derived), which are summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes.

The White and Red tees publish a par 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 Par column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own par row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

The White 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

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-24

Hole 123456789 Total
Par 434543544 36
White 343191291461263157428274245 2,797
Red 27282265353232132364186228 2,143
Handicap 12481410261816

No per-hole yardages are published for Blue, so it is not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Royster Memorial Golf Course 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 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.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Royster Memorial 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: River Bend Ymca Golf Course (3.8 mi) · Challenger 3 Golf Course (4.2 mi) · Deer Brook Golf Club (4.6 mi) · Woodbridge Golf Links (6.6 mi)

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
Longest2,911 yds514th of 541=10,757th of 12,025103rd of 110 in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area · =1,257th of 1,791 9-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 123=293rd of 356=5,905th of 8,71056th of 67 in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area · =226th of 972 9-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 68.2=314th of 333=6,932nd of 7,61561st of 65 in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area · =92nd of 199 9-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread768 yds between tees491st of 528=9,223rd of 11,52398th of 106 in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area · =345th of 1,640 9-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1948=53rd of 395=2,232nd of 9,368=17th of 76 in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area · =459th of 1,347 9-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level831 ft derived 146th of 554=4,709th of 12,43733rd of 113 in the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC combined area · =891st of 1,830 9-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 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 2 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 3 sets of tees.
  • Course map, partly built.The course's outline is drawn, but none of its 9 holes has been traced in OpenStreetMap 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.3 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect, whether it is public or private and a phone number, and 1 more.

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 2026-08-24. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Cleveland Country Club

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River Bend Ymca Golf Course

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Challenger 3 Golf Course

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Deer Brook Golf Club

4.6 mi · Shelby · public · 18 holes

Woodbridge Golf Links

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Kings Mountain Country Club

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Cherryville Golf and Country Club

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Dogwood Valley Golf Course

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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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