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Cherokee National Golf & Recreation Club is an 18-hole private course in Gaffney, South Carolina.

Designed by Hoyt Spivey. It plays 6,953 yards from the BLACK tees, rated 73.6/122 (checked 2026-08-30).

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18
holes
72
par
6,953
yards (tips)
122
slope (black)
The shape of the round · BLACK teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES529205361361176376434423528417425403422203553408192537152334445364748495104114124134143155164173185PAROUT 3,393 YDSIN 3,560 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
Hoyt Spivey reported
access
private
address
442 Cherokee National Highway, Gaffney, SC, 29341
phone
864-489-9417
elevation
828 ft derived
opened
1963

35.12656, -81.70056 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

OpenStreetMap has this course's outline but has not traced any of its 18 holes. The shaded area is the property; no hole, green or tee is drawn.

The outline of Cherokee National Golf & Recreation Club as OpenStreetMap holds it, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. No hole, green or tee has been traced inside it.

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The outline of Cherokee National Golf & Recreation Club as OpenStreetMap holds it, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. No hole, green or tee has been traced inside it. The map itself needs JavaScript; the outline is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-04-09

The outline is the whole of the traced geometry here, so there is no hole or green to jump to and nothing to measure a yardage against.

Tees & ratings

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

All 7 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 7 rows.

BLACKM72695373.6reported, not from the club12233933560
BLUE673372.7from the club12833143419
middleM72663971.4reported, not from the club117
otherM72626669.4reported, not from the club112
PURPLE572227732949
forwardM72553069.3reported, not from the club116
RED516170.6reported, not from the club11625402621

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 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 534434445444435435 72
BLACK 529205361361176376434423528417425403422203553408192537 6,953
BLUE 514193361361160376413423513390412396401192541387175525 6,733
PURPLE 479155328218128309330357469345359345365168467263143494 5,722
RED 43013030120910830933029043330132133228014746725999415 5,161
Handicap 188146161042129113171551317

No per-hole yardages are published for middle, other and forward, so they are not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Cherokee National Golf & Recreation Club hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard, but nobody has traced its holes: the bunkers, water and fairway edges a plan aims around.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

  • 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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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

Cherokee National Golf & Recreation Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: River Bend Ymca Golf Course (11 mi, semi-private) · Dogwood Valley Golf Course (12 mi, public) · Palmetto Hills Golf Club (16 mi, semi-private) · The Creek Golf Club (17 mi, semi-private)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn South CarolinaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,953 yds=99th of 351=2,239th of 12,02511th of 56 in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC combined area · =795th of 2,954 private courses · =2,225th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 122=206th of 227=6,159th of 8,71027th of 30 in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC combined area · =2,069th of 2,300 private courses · =5,821st of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 73.6=85th of 215=1,853rd of 7,615=10th of 28 in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC combined area · =759th of 2,143 private courses · =1,838th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,792 yds between tees181st of 345=3,515th of 11,52323rd of 55 in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC combined area · =1,055th of 2,885 private courses · =3,460th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1963=47th of 253=3,357th of 9,36810th of 34 in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC combined area · =1,184th of 2,418 private courses · =2,392nd of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level828 ft derived 41st of 374=4,737th of 12,43730th of 58 in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC combined area · =924th of 3,026 private courses · =3,328th 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 progress2 of 6 built

2 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 2 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 6 sets of tees.
  • Course map, partly built.The course's outline is drawn, but none of its 18 holes has been traced in OpenStreetMap yet.
  • Per-hole distances, not built yet.The holes aren't traced yet, so there are no measured carries or distances to the green.
  • 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 2026-08-30. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

Compare this course →

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Nearby courses

Country Club of Gaffney

7.6 mi · Gaffney · private · 9 holes

River Bend Ymca Golf Course

11 mi · Shelby · semi-private · 18 holes

Dogwood Valley Golf Course

12 mi · Caroleen · public · 9 holes

Royster Memorial Golf Course

14 mi · Shelby · 9 holes

Palmetto Hills Golf Club

16 mi · Spartanburg · semi-private · 18 holes

The Country Club of Spartanburg

16 mi · Spartanburg · private · 18 holes

Cleveland Country Club

16 mi · Shelby · private · 18 holes

The Creek Golf Club

17 mi · Spartanburg · semi-private · 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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