Apple Valley Golf Club is an 18-hole public course in Howard, Ohio.

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holes

par

6,946

yards (tips)

128

slope (black)

The shape of the round · BLACK 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

designer: Bill Newcomb & John Robinson reported
access: public
address: 433 Clubhouse Drive, Howard, OH, 43028
phone: 740-397-7664
website: course site →
elevation: 1,112 ft derived
opened: 1972
on site: driving range · pro shop · restaurant

40.44603, -82.35984 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 10 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

167 traced features across 8 layers for Apple Valley Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,946yds

BLACK tees

553yds

Longest hole

140yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-05-21

Tees & ratings

Yardagesfrom the clubread from the scorecard imagechecked 2026-08-21

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


BLACK	M	72	6946	73.1reported, not from the club	128	3421	3525
BLUE	M	72	6544	71.2from the club	124	3233	3311
White	M	72	6070	69.7from the club	121	2998	3072
White/Gold	M	72	5560	68.6reported, not from the club	118
Gold	M	72	5109	67.4from the club	115	2527	2582

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.

These ratings do not all come from the same place, so each row says which: from the club where the course's own card prints that figure, reported where it does not.

Scorecard

Scorecardfrom the clubread from the scorecard imagechecked 2026-08-21

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	5	4	3	5	3	4	4	5	4	5	3	4	4	3	4	4	72
BLACK	428	374	542	355	140	523	246	436	377	484	341	553	227	470	467	170	365	448	6,946
BLUE	415	362	528	343	125	500	190	403	367	474	326	523	218	448	427	159	351	385	6,544
White	375	360	488	343	120	460	165	334	353	462	315	505	171	395	385	159	320	360	6,070
Gold	300	330	410	300	89	425	132	305	236	425	263	414	130	310	330	120	290	300	5,109
Handicap	3	15	9	17	13	7	5	1	11	10	6	8	12	4	2	18	16	14

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

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Apple Valley 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 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

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Also bookable nearby: Little Apple Golf Course (14 mi) · Deer Ridge Golf Club (17 mi) · The Woods at Possum Run (21 mi) · Forest Hills Golf Course (23 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 Ohio	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,946 yds	63rd of 414	=2,286th of 12,025	25th of 75 in the Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH combined area · =563rd of 4,105 public courses · =1,063rd of 7,004 courses you can book · =2,272nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 128	=126th of 316	=4,449th of 8,710	=28th of 67 in the Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH combined area · =1,009th of 2,882 public courses · =2,008th of 4,936 courses you can book · =4,313th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 73.1	=72nd of 293	=2,520th of 7,615	21st of 64 in the Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH combined area · =554th of 2,412 public courses · =1,087th of 4,145 courses you can book · =2,497th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,837 yds between tees	101st of 393	=3,226th of 11,523	29th of 71 in the Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH combined area · =848th of 3,841 public courses · =1,614th of 6,653 courses you can book · =3,173rd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1972	=213th of 355	=4,738th of 9,368	=33rd of 74 in the Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH combined area · =1,427th of 3,277 public courses · =2,528th of 5,526 courses you can book · =3,355th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	1,112 ft derived	=68th of 433	=2,854th of 12,437	6th of 80 in the Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH combined area · 1,037th of 4,289 public courses · =1,840th of 7,274 courses you can book · =1,947th 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 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 2026-08-21. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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