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City of Portsmouth Bide A Wee Golf Course is an 18-hole course in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Designed by Thomas E. Clark, ASGCA. It plays 6,940 yards from the Gold tees, rated 73/128 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
72
par
6,940
yards (tips)
128
slope (gold)
The shape of the round · Gold teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — GOLD TEES508431393180607427230447315526292190448459337205552393152434435564738494105114123134144154163175184PAROUT 3,538 YDSIN 3,402 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
Thomas E. Clark, ASGCA reported
address
Sumter Street, Portsmouth, VA, 23702
elevation
12 ft derived
opened
1956

36.80434, -76.33984 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 21 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

235 traced features across 8 layers for City of Portsmouth Bide A Wee Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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235 traced features across 8 layers for City of Portsmouth Bide A Wee Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
19
Fairways
52
Bunkers
9
Water
18
Greens
62
Tee pads
6,940yds
Gold tees
607yds
Longest hole
180yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-10-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 5 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

GoldM72694073.012835383402
BlueM72638070.812332743106
WhiteM72586068.511830112849
YellowM72530365.511026842619
RedM72492069.212125072413

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 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 544354344543444354 72
Gold 508431393180607427230447315526292190448459337205552393 6,940
Blue 474405374163569387203401298501266165384431313181490375 6,380
White 457371341143531349173367279463242149371399271154455345 5,860
Yellow 454322292113452314164331242445233131335350255146430294 5,303
Red 396314275106444308123323218403197127327341236113384285 4,920
Handicap 119717151331581612641814210

Plan it in the Studio

Plan City of Portsmouth Bide A Wee Golf 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 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

Plan this course in the Studio

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 a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to City of Portsmouth Bide A Wee Golf Course'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: Chesapeake Golf Club (6.9 mi) · Riverfront Golf Club (7.8 mi) · Sleepy Hole Golf Course (10 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn VirginiaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,940 yds84th of 347=2,327th of 12,02517th of 62 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area · =2,313th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 128=171st of 257=4,449th of 8,710=29th of 47 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area · =4,313th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 73.0=104th of 234=2,665th of 7,615=19th of 46 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area · =2,642nd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,020 yds between tees84th of 341=2,140th of 11,52314th of 62 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area · =2,097th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 195664th of 279=2,585th of 9,36812th of 47 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area · =1,854th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level12 ft derived =330th of 353=11,935th of 12,437=40th of 62 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area · =8,723rd 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 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 5 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 5 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.4 of 7 background details — we don't hold whether it is public or private, a phone number and the grass on the greens.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

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 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Elizabeth Manor Country Club

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The Lamberts Point Golf Course

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Chesapeake Golf Club

6.9 mi · Chesapeake · semi-private · 18 holes

Greenbrier Country Club

7.4 mi · Chesapeake · private · 18 holes

Riverfront Golf Club

7.8 mi · Suffolk · public · 18 holes

Sewells Point Golf Course

8.6 mi · Norfolk · military · 18 holes

Sleepy Hole Golf Course

10 mi · Suffolk · public · 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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