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Tobacco Road Golf Club is an 18-hole public course in Sanford, North Carolina.

Designed by Mike Strantz. It plays 6,557 yards from the Ripper tees, rated 72.5/145 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
71
par
6,557
yards (tips)
145
slope (ripper)
The shape of the round · Ripper teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — RIPPER TEES558392152535333148411178427441531419573194365326142432152433455463748394104115124135143154164173184PAROUT 3,134 YDSIN 3,423 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
Mike Strantz
access
public
address
442 Tobacco Road, Sanford, NC, 27332
phone
877-284-3762
elevation
447 ft derived
opened
1998

“Architect Mike Strantz was a student of the Golden Age Architects” — the course's own page The same page gives him a section headed "MIKE STRANTZ" and calls him "the late Mike Strantz"; the course states it was established in 1998.

35.39859, -79.21385 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 89 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

298 traced features across 8 layers for Tobacco Road Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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298 traced features across 8 layers for Tobacco Road Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
23
Fairways
128
Bunkers
2
Water
18
Greens
68
Tee pads
108.2ft
Elevation range
6,557yds
Ripper tees
573yds
Longest hole
142yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-09-02

Height393 ft501.2 ft

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 8 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 8 rows.

RipperM71655772.514531343423
DiscM71631771.314330323285
PlowF71588675.714528453041
PlowM71588669.413228453041
PointsM71530266.912526322670
PointsF71530271.713626322670
CultivatorF71429667.011821072189
CultivatorM71429662.611721072189

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 — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 543543434454534434 71
Ripper 558392152535333148411178427441531419573194365326142432 6,557
Disc 547377147507322143401173415421511412536178358321134414 6,317
Plow 521344125478315133383152394398486380497152351281127369 5,886
Points 478301112466309107353142364365361347455111311266102352 5,302
Cultivator 315280913682971072481322692422902914299626724884242 4,296
Handicap 311179151375161014281216184

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Tobacco Road Golf Club 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. This course's greens were surveyed, so it reads their slope too.

  • 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

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.

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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Tobacco Road 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: Quail Ridge Golf Club (1.4 mi) · Country Club of Whispering Pines River Course (13 mi) · Country Club of Whispering Pines Pines Course (14 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
Longest6,557 yds299th of 541=5,564th of 12,02535th of 66 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · =1,453rd of 4,105 public courses · =2,720th of 7,004 courses you can book · =5,522nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 145=16th of 356=289th of 8,7102nd of 51 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · =40th of 2,882 public courses · =76th of 4,936 courses you can book · =282nd of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 72.5=180th of 333=3,344th of 7,61524th of 44 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · =777th of 2,412 public courses · =1,492nd of 4,145 courses you can book · =3,312th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,261 yds between tees=81st of 528=1,219th of 11,52318th of 64 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · =285th of 3,841 public courses · =569th of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,188th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1998=323rd of 395=7,592nd of 9,368=41st of 56 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · =2,562nd of 3,277 public courses · =4,386th of 5,526 courses you can book · =5,574th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level447 ft derived 307th of 554=7,485th of 12,43710th of 67 in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC combined area · =2,970th of 4,289 public courses · =4,825th of 7,274 courses you can book · =5,324th 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 progress5 of 7 built

5 of 7 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 8 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 8 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, partly built.Contours on 18 greens, 6 of them surveyed too thinly to trust.
  • Green slope and pin positions, built.Fall lines and the pinnable area on 18 greens — the figures the Caddie plans against.
  • 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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Creek at Carolina Trace Country Club

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Woodlake Country Club

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Carolina Lakes Golf Club

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Country Club of Whispering Pines River Course

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Country Club of Whispering Pines Pines Course

14 mi · Whispering Pines · semi-private · 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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