Kiawah Island Golf Resort - The Ocean Course is an 18-hole resort course in Kiawah Island, South Carolina.

It plays 7,385 yards from the BLACK tees, rated 77.4/153 (checked 2026-08-21).

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holes

par

7,385

yards (tips)

153

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

access: resort
address: Ocean Course Drive, Kiawah Island, SC, 29455
phone: 843-266-4670
website: course site →
elevation: 10 ft derived
opened: 1991
on site: restaurant

32.61243, -80.02095 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 68 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

366 traced features across 8 layers for Kiawah Island Golf Resort - The Ocean 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

7,385yds

BLACK tees

577yds

Longest hole

194yds

Shortest hole

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

Tees & ratings

Yardagesfrom the clubchecked 2026-08-21

All 8 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


BLACK	M	72	7385	77.4from the club	153	3625	3760
GOLD	M	72	6793	74.7from the club	150	3351	3442
Dye	M	72	6475	72.0reported, not from the club	134	3173	3302
SILVER		72	6356	78.9from the club	151	3122	3234
Kiawah	F	72	6202	76.7reported, not from the club	132	3094	3108
Kiawah	M	72	6202	70.9reported, not from the club	132	3094	3108
Carolina	F	72	5327	72.7reported, not from the club	124	2618	2689
RED		72	5226	72.6from the club	130	2597	2629

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 — every published tee

Scorecardfrom the clubchecked 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	5	4	4	3	4	5	3	4	4	5	4	4	3	4	5	3	4	72
BLACK	396	543	384	451	207	455	527	198	464	439	562	466	399	194	416	577	223	484	7,385
GOLD	371	520	363	430	185	382	505	180	415	388	521	420	371	171	387	548	197	439	6,793
SILVER	365	495	308	396	165	342	491	166	394	368	503	408	364	161	368	479	159	424	6,356
RED	303	410	254	328	117	299	437	105	344	310	407	326	312	132	306	392	122	322	5,226
Dye	365	501	319	401	177	345	493	166	406	360	506	412	364	161	381	540	182	396	6,475
Kiawah	357	495	310	396	171	331	484	151	399	347	476	398	333	151	358	491	168	386	6,202
Carolina	306	419	268	328	117	299	432	105	344	310	440	326	312	132	306	427	122	314	5,327
Handicap	15	3	9	1	11	13	7	17	5	16	8	10	2	14	18	4	12	6

Plan it in the Studio

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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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Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Kiawah Island Golf Resort - The Ocean Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

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Also bookable nearby: Crooked Oaks at Seabrook Island Resort (8.6 mi) · Ocean Winds at Seabrook Island Resort (9.3 mi) · Charleston Municipal Golf Course (9.9 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 South Carolina	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	7,385 yds	7th of 351	234th of 12,025	2nd of 33 in the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area · 17th of 601 resort courses · 88th of 7,004 courses you can book · 234th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 153	=3rd of 227	=20th of 8,710	2nd of 24 in the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area · 1st of 477 resort courses · =8th of 4,936 courses you can book · =19th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 77.4	1st of 215	=42nd of 7,615	1st of 23 in the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area · 2nd of 446 resort courses · =15th of 4,145 courses you can book · =42nd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,159 yds between tees	=76th of 345	=1,561st of 11,523	9th of 33 in the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area · 115th of 593 resort courses · =736th of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,526th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1991	=150th of 253	=6,412th of 9,368	=17th of 27 in the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area · =324th of 516 resort courses · =3,529th of 5,526 courses you can book · =4,615th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	10 ft derived	=332nd of 374	=12,040th of 12,437	22nd of 34 in the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area · =584th of 616 resort courses · =7,102nd of 7,274 courses you can book · =8,804th 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 8 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 8 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.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect and 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.

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