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Southward Ho Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Bay Shore, New York.

Designed by A.W. Tillinghast. It plays 6,572 yards from the Championship tees, rated 71.8/133 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
71
par
6,572
yards (tips)
133
slope (championship)
The shape of the round · Tournament teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — TOURNAMENT TEES352484408134366351396352141538544324374206342416203411142534435464748493105115124134143154164173184PAROUT 2,984 YDSIN 3,358 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
A.W. Tillinghast reported
access
private
address
Gateway Drive, Bay Shore, NY, 11706
phone
631-665-1710
elevation
14 ft derived
opened
1923

40.70672, -73.26893 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 20 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

233 traced features across 8 layers for Southward Ho Country Club, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery.

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233 traced features across 8 layers for Southward Ho Country Club, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
20
Fairways
84
Bunkers
5
Water
18
Greens
39
Tee pads
6,342yds
Tournament tees
544yds
Longest hole
134yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-08-09

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.

ChampionshipM71657271.8133
TournamentM71634070.913229843358
WhiteM716141contested605070.013028503200
ForwardF72contested71557072.012926702897

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. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Forward 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 White 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

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 454344443554434434 71
Tournament 352484408134366351396352141538544324374206342416203411 6,340
White 341469397120337332389339126528531287346195325397193398 6,141
Forward 33145240111032030536130090431467274325148309377180386 5,570
Handicap 121421881064161331579111175

No per-hole yardages are published for Championship, so it is not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Southward Ho 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 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 nearby

Southward Ho Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Sumpwams Creek at E Donald Conroy Golf Course (2.5 mi, municipal) · Heartland Golf Park (4.6 mi, public) · Brentwood Country Club (5.7 mi, municipal) · Gull Haven Golf Club (6.1 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
Longest6,572 yds=257th of 796=5,429th of 12,025197th of 404 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =1,814th of 2,954 private courses · =5,390th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 133=123rd of 516=2,813th of 8,710=127th of 300 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =1,213th of 2,300 private courses · =2,750th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 71.8=222nd of 454=4,302nd of 7,615=173rd of 275 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =1,611th of 2,143 private courses · =4,254th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,002 yds between tees=473rd of 753=8,309th of 11,523292nd of 386 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · 2,329th of 2,885 private courses · =8,023rd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1923=115th of 570=1,001st of 9,368=80th of 316 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =558th of 2,418 private courses · =746th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level14 ft derived 793rd of 817=11,812th of 12,437382nd of 409 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =2,860th of 3,026 private courses · =8,622nd 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 3 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.

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.

Compare this course →

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Sumpwams Creek at E Donald Conroy Golf Course

2.5 mi · Babylon · municipal · 9 holes

Bergen Point Golf Club

4.2 mi · West Babylon · 18 holes

Heartland Golf Park

4.6 mi · Edgewood · public · 9 holes

Brentwood Country Club

5.7 mi · Brentwood · municipal · 18 holes

Gull Haven Golf Club

6.1 mi · Central Islip · municipal · 9 holes

Cedar Beach Golf Course

6.2 mi · Babylon · municipal · 18 holes

White Red at Timber Point Country Club

6.4 mi · Great River · 18 holes

Red Blue at Timber Point Country Club

6.5 mi · Great River · 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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