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The Emerald Golf Club is an 18-hole semi-private course in New Bern, North Carolina.

Designed by Rees Jones. It plays 6,924 yards from the Emerald tees, rated 74/136 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
6,924
yards (tips)
136
slope (emerald)
The shape of the round · Emerald teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — EMERALD TEES399169393371521146420523405407172423590370208405524425142334445563748594104113124135144153164175184PAROUT 3,347 YDSIN 3,524 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

designer
Rees Jones reported
access
semi-private
address
5000 Clubhouse Drive, New Bern, NC, 28562
phone
252-633-4440
elevation
30 ft derived
opened
1988

35.11530, -77.11531 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes, their lines predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery and numbered against the scorecard. Its greens, fairways, bunkers and water are predicted the same way.

101 features across 6 layers for The Emerald Golf Club, 1 traced and 100 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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101 features across 6 layers for The Emerald Golf Club, 1 traced and 100 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

© OpenStreetMap contributors · Holes and outlines predicted by a model trained on OpenStreetMap data · GeoJSON

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

18
Holes · predicted
15
Fairways · predicted
42
Bunkers · predicted
7
Water · predicted
18
Greens · predicted
6,871yds
Emerald tees
590yds
Longest hole
146yds
Shortest hole

1 imported from OpenStreetMap and 100 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-10-07 – 2022-10-09

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.

EmeraldM726924contested687174.013633473524
BlackM72648371.712932283301
BlueM72612370.212630463110
WhiteM72549767.311826802802
GoldF724893contested474968.711623082441
GoldM724893contested474964.410723082441
RedF724203contested411564.810619982117

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 Emerald, Gold and Red 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 434453454434543454 72
Emerald 399169393371521146420523405407172423590370208405524425 6,924
Black 383169376356502146403508385392161403520358173389492413 6,483
Blue 362151359341480131376488358370147383497350161351473378 6,123
White 340120297293448112331422317343118317468329144304422357 5,497
Gold 2739127226141187282371260292100281402263129277390307 4,893
Red 220802352423787523032321523793241356248115234335258 4,203
Handicap 917117315113581664141012182

The Studio

The Studio can't plan The Emerald Golf Club hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 101 of its features, 1 traced and 100 predicted by a model, 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 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

See the courses it plans Open the Studio

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 The Emerald Golf Club'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 Country Club (3.6 mi) · Carolina Colours Golf Club (8.7 mi) · Harbour Pointe Golf Club (9.8 mi) · Minnesott Golf Country Club (20 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
Longest6,924 yds141st of 541=2,452nd of 12,0253rd of 14 in the New Bern-Morehead City, NC combined area · 293rd of 2,030 semi-private courses · =1,153rd of 7,004 courses you can book · =2,436th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 136=128th of 356=1,956th of 8,710=220th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =767th of 4,936 courses you can book · =1,911th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 74.0=76th of 333=1,385th of 7,615=148th of 1,141 semi-private courses · =559th of 4,145 courses you can book · =1,374th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,721 yds between tees36th of 528502nd of 11,5232nd of 14 in the New Bern-Morehead City, NC combined area · 70th of 1,970 semi-private courses · 231st of 6,653 courses you can book · 493rd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1988=223rd of 395=6,015th of 9,368=985th of 1,516 semi-private courses · =3,283rd of 5,526 courses you can book · =4,292nd of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level30 ft derived 485th of 554=11,030th of 12,4373rd of 14 in the New Bern-Morehead City, NC combined area · =1,852nd of 2,089 semi-private courses · =6,676th of 7,274 courses you can book · =7,988th 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 holes and their greens are drawn, predicted by a model from aerial imagery and shown over it.
  • Per-hole distances, built.Every hole's line of play is predicted from aerial imagery, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along that predicted line.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold 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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