Oyster Reef Golf Club is an 18-hole semi-private course in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

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holes

par

7,018

yards (tips)

137

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: Rees Jones reported
access: semi-private
address: 155 High Bluff Road, Hilton Head Island, SC, 29928
phone: 843-681-1750
website: course site →
elevation: 15 ft derived
opened: 1982
on site: pro shop · restaurant · lessons

32.24657, -80.71340 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 5 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

210 traced features across 8 layers for Oyster Reef 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

7,006yds

Gold tees

548yds

Longest hole

158yds

Shortest hole

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

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 4 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Gold	M	72	7018	74.7	137	3477	3529
Blue	M	72	6440	72.2	124	3204	3234
White	M	72	6071	70.5	119	3024	3027
Green	F	72	5288	71.1	120	2666	2669

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.

Scorecard — every published tee

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	4	5	4	3	5	4	4	5	3	4	4	72
Gold	375	518	179	384	453	197	398	425	548	398	158	521	422	379	536	204	458	453	7,018
Blue	350	477	167	372	404	162	362	395	515	357	135	490	388	349	502	164	428	421	6,440
White	330	463	151	350	373	148	347	373	489	347	127	461	359	328	476	136	392	401	6,071
Green	270	427	124	317	328	124	291	327	458	319	96	418	331	276	431	107	346	345	5,288
Handicap	13	5	17	11	7	15	9	1	3	14	18	10	8	12	2	16	4	6

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Oyster Reef 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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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Oyster Reef Golf Club's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Palmetto Hall - Robert Cupp Golf Course (0.9 mi) · Palmetto Hall - Arthur Hills Golf Course (1.2 mi) · Country Club of Hilton Head (1.4 mi) · Port Royal Robber's Row Golf Course (2.5 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	7,018 yds	73rd of 351	=1,735th of 12,025	21st of 56 in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area · =193rd of 2,030 semi-private courses · =784th of 7,004 courses you can book · =1,727th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 137	=94th of 227	=1,696th of 8,710	=27th of 43 in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area · =187th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =649th of 4,936 courses you can book · =1,658th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 74.7	=34th of 215	=739th of 7,615	=11th of 40 in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area · =57th of 1,141 semi-private courses · =280th of 4,145 courses you can book · =735th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,730 yds between tees	=200th of 345	=3,906th of 11,523	39th of 54 in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area · =599th of 1,970 semi-private courses · =2,017th of 6,653 courses you can book · =3,848th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1982	=106th of 253	=5,547th of 9,368	15th of 46 in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area · =922nd of 1,516 semi-private courses · =3,009th of 5,526 courses you can book · =3,950th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	15 ft derived	=294th of 374	=11,755th of 12,437	=26th of 60 in the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area · =1,982nd of 2,089 semi-private courses · =6,988th of 7,274 courses you can book · =8,576th 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 4 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

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 2026-08-14. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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