River Vale Country Club is an 18-hole semi-private golf course in River Vale, New Jersey.

It plays 6,504 yards from the Blue tees, rated 71.3/131 (checked 2026-08-15).

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holes

par

6,504

yards (tips)

131

slope (blue)

The shape of the round · Blue 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

access: semi-private
address: Thurnau Drive, River Vale, NJ, 07675
phone: 201-391-2300
website: course site →
elevation: 77 ft derived
opened: 1931
on site: driving range · pro shop · restaurant · lessons

41.02564, -74.00869 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. Holes 10 to 18: lines and greens predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. Other holes: traced by OpenStreetMap contributors. 34 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

179 features across 8 layers for River Vale Country Club, 161 traced and 18 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes 10 to 18 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

6,504yds

Blue tees

540yds

Longest hole

133yds

Shortest hole

161 imported from OpenStreetMap and the lines and greens of holes 10 to 18 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-08-20

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 4 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Blue	M	72	6504	71.3	131	3200	3304
White	M	72	6168	69.7	128	3023	3145
Gold	M	72	5892	68.4	122	2906	2986
Red	F	72	5378	71.3	127	2598	2780

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 2026-08-15

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	4	3	5	5	4	3	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	4	3	5	72
Blue	394	368	336	185	525	468	389	160	375	384	325	482	351	233	475	381	133	540	6,504
White	372	350	325	161	488	450	365	148	364	365	308	471	321	215	454	366	123	522	6,168
Gold	354	341	318	155	438	444	352	144	360	334	304	466	316	191	438	321	100	516	5,892
Red	338	271	268	146	417	442	307	107	302	326	302	410	267	176	408	314	98	479	5,378
Handicap	3	7	13	15	11	1	9	17	5	4	16	14	12	6	2	8	10	18

Plan it in the Studio

Plan River Vale Country 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. 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 a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to River Vale Country 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: Lakeside Pines at Blue Hill Golf Course (1.7 mi) · Pines Woodland at Blue Hill Golf Course (1.8 mi) · Woodland Lakeside at Blue Hill Golf Course (2.0 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

Figure	This course	In New Jersey	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,504 yds	173rd of 302	=6,051st of 12,025	229th of 404 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =882nd of 2,030 semi-private courses · =2,992nd of 7,004 courses you can book · =5,999th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 131	=110th of 210	=3,457th of 8,710	=162nd of 300 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =433rd of 1,395 semi-private courses · =1,469th of 4,936 courses you can book · =3,378th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 71.3	=141st of 194	=4,910th of 7,615	=203rd of 275 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =681st of 1,141 semi-private courses · =2,355th of 4,145 courses you can book · =4,845th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,126 yds between tees	209th of 290	=7,731st of 11,523	260th of 386 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =1,272nd of 1,970 semi-private courses · =4,179th of 6,653 courses you can book · =7,540th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1931	=78th of 232	=1,840th of 9,368	=125th of 316 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =293rd of 1,516 semi-private courses · =741st of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,358th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	77 ft derived	=195th of 307	=10,303rd of 12,437	=285th of 409 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =1,732nd of 2,089 semi-private courses · =6,295th of 7,274 courses you can book · =7,440th 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 4 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 4 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery. Holes 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 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 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 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 the architect and the grass on the greens.

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Sources

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Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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