The longest par-3 course in New York is Bob O Link Golf Club, at 2,315 yards — one of 22 par-3 courses in the state.
Ranked against New York's other par-3 courses, not against its regulation golf. Each list counts only the courses that publish that figure, so the totals differ between them. Slope and course rating measure difficulty, not quality.
Longest
— all 21 courses with a published scorecard
| # | Course | Longest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bob O Link Golf Club | 2,315 yds |
| 2 | Buttonwood Golf Course | 2,281 yds |
| 3 | West Hills Country Club River Course | 1,616 yds |
| 4 | Jacob Riis Park Golf Course | 1,570 yds |
| 5 | Brunswick Greens Golf Course | 1,511 yds |
| 6 | Sandstone Hollow Golf Club at Turning Stone | 1,482 yds |
| 7 | Newfane Pro Am Par 3 Golf Course | 1,435 yds |
| 8 | Cedar Beach Golf Course | 1,400 yds |
| 9 | The First Tee Syracuse Golf Complex at Butternut Creek | 1,365 yds |
| 10 | Harris Hill Golf Center | 1,334 yds |
| 11 | Heartland Golf Park | 1,220 yds |
| 12 | Sumpwams Creek at E Donald Conroy Golf Course | 1,156 yds |
| 13 | The Links at Valley Fields | 1,155 yds |
| 14 | Cedars Golf Club | 1,120 yds |
| 15 | Sandy Pond Par 3 Golf Course | 1,070 yds |
| 16 | Sunnycrest Golf Course | 1,043 yds |
| 17 | Latta Lea Golf Club | 1,001 yds |
| 18 | Flushing Meadows Pitch Putt | 990 yds |
| 19 | Executive South Family Golf Center | 885 yds |
| 20 | Sunnyside Par 3 Golf Course | 870 yds |
| 21 | Wedgewood Par 3 Golf Course | 725 yds |
The longest tee set the course publishes, in yards from the tips. Compared against every course that publishes a scorecard — length is a measurement, not a verdict on the golf.
Oldest
— all 17 courses with an opening year
| # | Course | Oldest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunnycrest Golf Course | opened 1928 |
| 2 | Jacob Riis Park Golf Course | opened 1935 |
| 3 | Leisure Village Golf Course | opened 1955 |
| 4 | Cedar Beach Golf Course | opened 1957 |
| 5 | Latta Lea Golf Club | opened 1959 |
| 6 | Flushing Meadows Pitch Putt | opened 1960 |
| 7 | Bob O Link Golf Club | opened 1965 |
| 7 | Cedars Golf Club | opened 1965 |
| 9 | Buttonwood Golf Course | opened 1974 |
| 10 | Harris Hill Golf Center | opened 1990 |
| 11 | Executive South Family Golf Center | opened 1993 |
| 12 | Brunswick Greens Golf Course | opened 1994 |
| 12 | Heartland Golf Park | opened 1994 |
| 14 | Sandstone Hollow Golf Club at Turning Stone | opened 1999 |
| 14 | Sumpwams Creek at E Donald Conroy Golf Course | opened 1999 |
| 16 | Sunnyside Par 3 Golf Course | opened 2004 |
| 17 | The Links at Valley Fields | opened 2023 |
The year the course opened, as published. Ranked oldest first. An opening year is not a design credit and not a renovation date — a course that opened in 1921 and was rebuilt in 1998 still opened in 1921.
Highest above sea level
— all 22 courses with a coordinate we could sample
| # | Course | Highest above sea level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bob O Link Golf Club | 943 ft |
| 2 | Harris Hill Golf Center | 708 ft |
| 3 | Executive South Family Golf Center | 615 ft |
| 4 | Brunswick Greens Golf Course | 555 ft |
| 5 | Sandstone Hollow Golf Club at Turning Stone | 500 ft |
| 6 | Buttonwood Golf Course | 481 ft |
| 7 | Sunnycrest Golf Course | 455 ft |
| 8 | The First Tee Syracuse Golf Complex at Butternut Creek | 443 ft |
| 9 | The Links at Valley Fields | 419 ft |
| 10 | West Hills Country Club River Course | 403 ft |
| 11 | Sunnyside Par 3 Golf Course | 383 ft |
| 12 | Newfane Pro Am Par 3 Golf Course | 340 ft |
| 13 | Latta Lea Golf Club | 286 ft |
| 14 | Wedgewood Par 3 Golf Course | 158 ft |
| 15 | Leisure Village Golf Course | 89 ft |
| 16 | Heartland Golf Park | 81 ft |
| 17 | Sandy Pond Par 3 Golf Course | 25 ft |
| 18 | Cedar Beach Golf Course | 11 ft |
| 18 | Sumpwams Creek at E Donald Conroy Golf Course | 11 ft |
| 20 | Cedars Golf Club | 10 ft |
| 21 | Jacob Riis Park Golf Course | 8 ft |
| 22 | Flushing Meadows Pitch Putt | 3 ft |
Height above sea level at the course’s own published coordinate, sampled from the USGS 3DEP elevation model. THIS IS A FIGURE WE DERIVED, not one the course publishes — anybody can re-query the same public dataset at the same coordinate and get the same number, but no scorecard states it. Because every course carries a coordinate, this is the only board here whose field is nearly the whole database rather than the courses that publish a particular figure. Elevation changes how far a ball carries; it says nothing about whether a course is good.
How long a par-3 hole actually plays
Every hole on the 22 published par-3 scorecards in New York, in 25-yard bands. One tee set per course — the longest that publishes a card — so a course with six rated sets counts once rather than six times.
| Hole length (yards) | Holes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25–49 | 5 | 2.1% | |
| 50–74 | 38 | 15.6% | |
| 75–99 | 43 | 17.7% | |
| 100–124 | 69 | 28.4% | |
| 125–149 | 43 | 17.7% | |
| 150–174 | 26 | 10.7% | |
| 175–199 | 11 | 4.5% | |
| 200–224 | 5 | 2.1% | |
| 225–249 | 2 | 0.8% | |
| 250–274 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| 275–299 | 1 | 0.4% |