Kiawah Island Club - River Course is an 18-hole private golf course in St Johns, South Carolina.

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holes

par

7,119

yards (tips)

155

slope (gold)

The shape of the round · Gold 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: Tom Fazio reported
access: private
address: Halona Lane, St Johns, SC
phone: 843-459-9538
website: course site →
elevation: 7 ft derived
opened: 1995
on site: driving range · putting green · pro shop · restaurant · lessons

32.60889, -80.09579 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 16 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

202 traced features across 7 layers for Kiawah Island Club - River Course, 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

7,119yds

Gold tees

558yds

Longest hole

179yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-04-18

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 13 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Gold	M	72	7119		76.1	155	3521	3598
Blue	M	72	6658		74.2	153	3301	3357
Blue/White	M	72	6442		73.0	152
White	M	72	6246contested	5785	72.3	142	2899	2886
White	F	72	6246contested	5785	78.5	150	2899	2886
White/Green	M	72	5807		69.9	138
Green	M	72	5508contested	5214	68.5	134	2658	2556
Green	F	72	5508contested	5214	74.5	142	2658	2556
Green/Red	F	72	5222		72.7	138
Red	M	72	4904		65.3	125	2455	2449
Red	F	72	4904		71.2	133	2455	2449
Black	F	72	4605		69.5	128	2391	2214
Black	M	72	4605		64.3	123	2391	2214

Every figure as published except Card yards (derived), which is 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 White and Green 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	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	5	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	4	5	3	4	72
Gold	405	558	207	378	343	179	482	547	422	445	388	202	516	444	421	529	213	440	7,119
Blue	379	538	189	369	321	160	432	505	408	421	369	176	498	416	397	501	168	411	6,658
White	319	488	170	347	301	136	364	483	291	322	344	142	391	337	373	473	149	355	6,246
Green	319	488	140	299	244	104	364	409	291	322	290	124	349	337	296	413	127	298	5,508
Red	319	371	140	299	244	104	278	409	291	313	290	109	349	254	296	413	127	298	4,904
Black	265	371	130	299	244	104	278	409	291	257	290	109	303	254	296	316	91	298	4,605
Handicap	11	3	15	13	9	17	5	1	7	2	14	16	6	10	12	8	18	4

No per-hole yardages are published for Blue/White, White/Green and Green/Red, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Kiawah Island Club - River Course 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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Book nearby

Kiawah Island Club - River Course states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Kiawah Island Golf Resort - The Ocean Course (4.4 mi, resort) · Crooked Oaks at Seabrook Island Resort (4.4 mi, resort) · Ocean Winds at Seabrook Island Resort (5.4 mi, resort) · The Links at Stono Ferry (11 mi, semi-private)

Measured against comparable courses

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

Figure	This course	In South Carolina	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	7,119 yds	37th of 351	=984th of 12,025	=363rd of 2,954 private courses · =982nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 155	1st of 227	=1st of 8,710	=1st of 2,300 private courses · =1st of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 76.1	=6th of 215	=158th of 7,615	=69th of 2,143 private courses · =158th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,514 yds between tees	32nd of 345	720th of 11,523	222nd of 2,885 private courses · 704th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1995	=183rd of 253	=7,025th of 9,368	=1,967th of 2,418 private courses · =5,119th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	7 ft derived	=349th of 374	=12,225th of 12,437	=2,973rd of 3,026 private courses · =8,945th 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 10 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 13 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.

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Sources

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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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