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River Oaks Golf Club is an 18-hole private course in Grand Island, New York.

Designed by Desmond Muirhead. It plays 7,389 yards from the Gold tees, rated 75.5/135 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
7,389
yards (tips)
135
slope (gold)
The shape of the round · Gold teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — GOLD TEES359424523472222420607219438432405589426167385205519435142435445364758394104114125134143154163175184PAROUT 3,684 YDSIN 3,563 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
Desmond Muirhead reported
access
private
address
Whitehaven Road, Grand Island, NY, 14072
phone
716-773-3337
elevation
583 ft derived
opened
1972
on site
pro shop · restaurant

43.02279, -78.89922 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 34 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

273 traced features across 8 layers for River Oaks Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery.

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273 traced features across 8 layers for River Oaks Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
52
Fairways
66
Bunkers
3
Water
18
Greens
54
Tee pads
7,247yds
Gold tees
607yds
Longest hole
167yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-09-06

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

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

Sorted by Yards, descending. 4 rows.

GoldM727389contested724775.513536843563
BlueM72681473.413134163363
WhiteM72656372.012533083206
RedM725747contested526272.611926272635

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 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 445434534445434354 72
Gold 359424523472222420607219438432405589426167385205519435 7,389
Blue 348389495436191386564192415403383570402154368190491402 6,814
White 335379483425181371552180402394355558386142345166476384 6,563
Red 302335365307139326415160278354314454352106289115361290 5,747
Handicap 173151111359710486161412182

Plan it in the Studio

Plan River Oaks 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. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the 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

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Book nearby

River Oaks Golf Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Beaver Island State Park Golf Course (5.0 mi, public) · Grover Cleveland Golf Course (6.3 mi, municipal)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn New YorkNationwideAmong its peers
Longest7,389 yds8th of 796=227th of 12,0251st of 55 in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area · =92nd of 2,954 private courses · =227th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 135=95th of 516=2,233rd of 8,7105th of 45 in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area · =978th of 2,300 private courses · =2,185th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 75.515th of 454=287th of 7,6151st of 39 in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area · =135th of 2,143 private courses · =285th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,642 yds between tees144th of 753=4,485th of 11,52310th of 52 in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area · 1,311th of 2,885 private courses · =4,416th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1972=394th of 570=4,738th of 9,368=30th of 47 in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area · =1,454th of 2,418 private courses · =3,355th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level583 ft derived =331st of 817=6,770th of 12,437=45th of 59 in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area · =1,371st of 3,026 private courses · =4,809th 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 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.
  • 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, 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.

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Sources

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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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Deerwood Golf Course Buck Course

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Deerwood Golf Course Doe Course

3.1 mi · North Tonawanda · 9 holes

Deerwood Golf Course Fawn Course

3.7 mi · North Tonawanda · 9 holes

Beaver Island State Park Golf Course

5.0 mi · Grand Island · public · 18 holes

Tan Tara Golf Club

5.5 mi · North Tonawanda · private · 18 holes

Grover Cleveland Golf Course

6.3 mi · Amherst · municipal · 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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