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The Creek is an 18-hole private golf course in Locust Valley, New York.

Designed by Charles Blair Macdonald. It plays 6,459 yards from the Gold tees, rated 71.7/133 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
70
par
6,459
yards (tips)
133
slope (gold)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES340306369149345405501161355303152315398389300364108421142434435464758394104113124134144154164173185PAROUT 2,931 YDSIN 2,750 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
Charles Blair Macdonald reported
access
private
address
Winding Way, Locust Valley, NY, 11560
phone
516-676-1405
elevation
139 ft derived
opened
1923

40.88847, -73.59673 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 21 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

263 traced features across 8 layers for The Creek, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery.

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

18
Holes
23
Fairways
110
Bunkers
6
Water
18
Greens
44
Tee pads
6,111yds
Red tees
517yds
Longest hole
122yds
Shortest hole

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

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 5 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

GoldM70645971.7133
BlueM706215contested568170.513029312750
WhiteM705895contested503869.112625942444
WMGAM72580973.2131
RedF72contested705475contested611171.412731602951

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 Red 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 Blue, White 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

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 444344534434444435 70
Blue 340306369149345405501161355303152315398389300364108421 6,215
White 31829534713729834242113430230312429336132129330996344 5,895
Red 367350383158368447517172398313164337411414342405122443 5,475
Handicap 971117131515310161442861812

No per-hole yardages are published for Gold and WMGA, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan The Creek 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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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
Longest6,459 yds343rd of 796=6,344th of 12,025241st of 404 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · 2,062nd of 2,954 private courses · =6,289th 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 73.2=111th of 454=2,396th of 7,615=102nd of 275 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =975th of 2,143 private courses · =2,376th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread984 yds between tees=484th of 753=8,391st of 11,523297th of 386 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =2,351st of 2,885 private courses · =8,088th 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 level139 ft derived =693rd of 817=9,582nd of 12,437=187th of 409 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area · =2,248th of 3,026 private courses · =6,900th 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 5 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.

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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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