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Thistle Golf Club Stewart Course is a 9-hole public course in Sunset Beach, North Carolina.

Designed by Tim Cate. It plays 3,351 yards from the Thistle tees.

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9
holes
36
par
3,351
yards (tips)
The shape of the round · Thistle teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — THISTLE TEES370414433183518421380206525142434435564748395PAROUT 1,400 YDSIN 2,050 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

designer
Tim Cate reported
access
public
address
Sunset Beach, NC, 28467
phone
910-444-2500
elevation
49 ft derived
opened
2000
on site
pro shop · restaurant

33.90319, -78.54907 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around Thistle Golf Club Stewart Course. 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 Thistle Golf Club Stewart Course, NAIP 2022. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it.

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Aerial imagery of the area around Thistle Golf Club Stewart Course, 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 2022-09-21 – 2022-09-23

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 5 tee sets par, yardage — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

ThistleM35contested363351contested3450
BlueM35contested363168
WhiteM35contested362894contested2949
GoldM35contested362583
RedM35contested362179contested2257

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 Thistle, Blue, White, Gold 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 Thistle, White 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 123456789 Total
Par 444354435 36
Thistle 370414433183518421380206525 3,351
Blue 349356410156475396355190500 3,168
White 326326363134446376337164477 2,894
Gold 270271309108428315286144449 2,583
Red 24625128485368279248106390 2,179
Handicap 14810166124182

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Thistle Golf Club Stewart 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.

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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Thistle Golf Club Stewart 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: Thistle Golf Club Mackay Course (0.4 mi) · Thistle Golf Club Cameron Course (0.5 mi) · The Pearl Golf Links West Course (0.6 mi) · The Pearl Golf Links North Course (1.1 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
Longest3,351 yds488th of 5419,593rd of 12,02555th of 57 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · 3,022nd of 4,105 public courses · 5,300th of 7,004 courses you can book · 226th of 1,791 9-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,172 yds between tees451st of 528=7,475th of 11,52348th of 56 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =2,200th of 3,841 public courses · =4,038th of 6,653 courses you can book · 63rd of 1,640 9-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 2000=340th of 395=8,024th of 9,368=38th of 50 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =2,768th of 3,277 public courses · =4,691st of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,226th of 1,347 9-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level49 ft derived =456th of 554=10,708th of 12,437=7th of 57 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =3,951st of 4,289 public courses · =6,507th of 7,274 courses you can book · =1,723rd 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 progress1 of 6 built

1 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, not built yet.We don't have a course rating or slope for this course yet.
  • 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 a street address 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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Nearby courses

Thistle Golf Club Mackay Course

0.4 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 9 holes

Thistle Golf Club Cameron Course

0.5 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 27 holes

The Pearl Golf Links West Course

0.6 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 9 holes

The Pearl Golf Links North Course

1.1 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 9 holes

Legends Golf Resort Oyster Bay

1.6 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 18 holes

The Pearl Golf Links East Course

1.6 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 9 holes

Byrd at Sea Trail Golf Resort and Convention Center

1.7 mi · Sunset Beach · resort · 18 holes

Jones at Sea Trail Golf Resort and Convention Center

1.8 mi · Sunset Beach · resort · 18 holes

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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