The Cliffs at Walnut Cove is an 18-hole private golf course in Arden, North Carolina.

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holes

par

7,167

yards (tips)

148

slope (vii)

The shape of the round · VII 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

designer: Jack Nicklaus reported
access: private
address: Craggyside Lane, Arden, NC, 28707
website: course site →
elevation: 2,274 ft derived
opened: 2005

35.46302, -82.60253 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. Holes 12 and 13: lines and greens predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. Other holes: traced by OpenStreetMap contributors. 13 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

178 features across 8 layers for The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, 174 traced and 4 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes 12 and 13 predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,923yds

VII tees

557yds

Longest hole

190yds

Shortest hole

174 imported from OpenStreetMap and the lines and greens of holes 12 and 13 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-09-23

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

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


VII	M	71	7167	75.2	148	3644	3523
VI	M	71	6717	73.2	145	3440	3277
V	M	71	6333	71.4	142	3232	3101
IV	M	71	6007	69.5	137
IV	F	71	6007	75.8	148
III	M	71	5567	67.5	129	2833	2734
III	F	71	5567	73.2	142	2833	2734
II	F	71	5178	70.9	137	2642	2536
I	F	71	4351	66.8	124	2184	2123

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	3	5	4	5	4	4	3	5	4	3	4	3	5	4	71
VII	450	190	400	417	227	518	461	557	424	408	244	530	470	205	464	196	532	474	7,167
VI	441	184	375	387	219	491	419	534	390	380	204	521	417	199	404	188	524	440	6,717
V	412	154	351	355	187	470	404	519	380	372	196	506	404	164	387	171	506	395	6,333
III	344	138	312	327	174	424	359	443	312	297	184	419	368	149	348	151	480	338	5,567
II	338	111	307	245	126	419	353	437	306	291	128	413	360	122	340	121	429	332	5,178
I	294	111	218	245	126	292	270	389	239	238	128	368	258	122	284	96	349	280	4,351
Handicap	3	17	11	5	15	13	1	9	7	12	14	2	6	16	8	18	10	4

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

Plan it in the Studio

Plan The Cliffs at Walnut Cove 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 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

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.

Book nearby

The Cliffs at Walnut Cove states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Broadmoor Golf Links (5.1 mi, public) · Southern Tee Golf Course (6.8 mi, public) · Crowne Plaza Tennis Golf Resort (9.2 mi, resort) · Etowah Valley Golf & Resort (9.5 mi, resort)

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	7,167 yds	38th of 541	=763rd of 12,025	287th of 2,954 private courses · =761st of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 148	=4th of 356	=119th of 8,710	=58th of 2,300 private courses · =118th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 75.2	=15th of 333	=404th of 7,615	=178th of 2,143 private courses · =401st of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,816 yds between tees	30th of 528	434th of 11,523	133rd of 2,885 private courses · 427th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 2005	=370th of 395	=8,800th of 9,368	=2,291st of 2,418 private courses · =6,554th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	2,274 ft derived	52nd of 554	=1,147th of 12,437	227th of 3,026 private courses · =832nd 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 7 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. Holes 12 and 13 are predicted from aerial imagery; OpenStreetMap traced the rest.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole has a line of play, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along it. Holes 12 and 13 are predicted from aerial imagery; OpenStreetMap traced the rest.
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 a phone number 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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