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Turtleback Mountain Golf Resort is an 18-hole resort course in Elephant Butte, New Mexico.

Designed by Richard M. Phelps, ASGCA. It plays 7,306 yards from the Black tees, rated 74.9/146 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
72
par
7,306
yards (tips)
146
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES378218568326219458435432594605236433390536451404171452142335445364748495105113124134145154164173184PAROUT 3,628 YDSIN 3,678 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
Richard M. Phelps, ASGCA reported
access
resort
address
Clubhouse Road, Elephant Butte, NM, 87935
elevation
4,302 ft derived
opened
2007

33.16666, -107.22949 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows 12 of 18 holes. OpenStreetMap has not traced holes 6, 7 and 10–13. Holes 4 and 14 are mapped without a green. The course outline is inferred from the mapped holes — OpenStreetMap has no outline for this course, so the shaded area is our own and the real property line may sit wider or tighter. 40 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one. The map below draws everything that has been traced.

191 traced features across 7 layers for Turtleback Mountain Golf Resort, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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191 traced features across 7 layers for Turtleback Mountain Golf Resort, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

12
Holes
15
Fairways
49
Bunkers
13
Water
10
Greens
66
Tee pads
3,887yds
Black tees
594yds
Longest hole
171yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-06-05

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 7 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 7 rows.

BlackM72730674.914636283678
BlueM72683772.214233843453
WhiteM72616468.713030633101
WhiteF72616474.914130633101
YellowF72562771.413128092818
YellowM72562765.711928092818
RedF72506567.712625322533

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 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 435434445534454434 72
Black 378218568326219458435432594605236433390536451404171452 7,306
Blue 353193541308195427415387565575218409365510433370141432 6,837
White 304158500275165395393357516540176375295474410330120381 6,164
Yellow 289128458256155354361326482511145331274442356304114341 5,627
Red 25811341923512732931128545547811029724441733424595313 5,065
Handicap 155917111371310841216214186

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Turtleback Mountain Golf Resort hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 191 traced features, 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

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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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Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Turtleback Mountain Golf Resort's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

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Also bookable nearby: Red Hawk Golf Club (59 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn New MexicoNationwideAmong its peers
Longest7,306 yds12th of 87=359th of 12,02530th of 601 resort courses · =132nd of 7,004 courses you can book · =359th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 1461st of 60=223rd of 8,710=12th of 477 resort courses · =60th of 4,936 courses you can book · =218th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 74.9=6th of 48=581st of 7,615=47th of 446 resort courses · =211th of 4,145 courses you can book · =577th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,241 yds between tees9th of 84=1,285th of 11,52396th of 593 resort courses · 600th of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,253rd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 200767th of 72=8,984th of 9,368=482nd of 516 resort courses · =5,307th of 5,526 courses you can book · =6,704th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level4,302 ft derived 67th of 88611th of 12,43746th of 616 resort courses · 330th of 7,274 courses you can book · 453rd 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 progress2 of 6 built

2 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, partly built.10 of the 18 greens are drawn — the rest of the course isn't mapped yet.
  • Per-hole distances, partly built.12 of the 18 holes are traced — the others have no measured distances yet.
  • 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.

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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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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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