James River Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Newport News, Virginia.

It plays 6,598 yards from the Black tees, rated 71.9/135 (checked 2026-08-15).

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holes

par

6,598

yards (tips)

135

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: private
address: Country Club Road, Newport News, VA, 23606
phone: 757-595-3327
website: course site →
elevation: 30 ft derived
opened: 1932
on site: pro shop · restaurant

37.05494, -76.50770 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 14 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

223 traced features across 8 layers for James River Country 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

6,598yds

Black tees

546yds

Longest hole

146yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-10-28

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

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


Black	M	70		6598	71.9	135	3381	3217
Blue	M	70		6346	70.7	132	3275	3071
White	M	70		6054	68.9	127	3121	2933
White	F	71contested	70	6054	75.0	138	3121	2933
Yellow	M	70		5463	67.4	122	2826	2637
Yellow	F	71contested	70	5463	72.3	132	2826	2637
Green	F	71contested	70	5014	69.9	127	2601	2413

Every figure as published except Card par (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, Yellow and Green tees publish a par 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 Par column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own par row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	4	5	4	4	3	4	3	4	3	5	70
Black	448	400	207	375	374	525	228	372	452	517	428	398	219	389	146	411	163	546	6,598
Blue	435	392	192	367	369	504	215	365	436	505	423	367	203	366	141	394	155	517	6,346
White	417	369	179	346	363	475	194	352	426	492	414	357	183	340	131	390	140	486	6,054
Yellow	387	322	166	305	311	470	153	336	376	448	335	325	177	336	107	369	136	404	5,463
Green	376	291	162	299	271	413	148	301	340	404	301	287	152	329	102	335	123	380	5,014
Handicap	1	5	9	15	11	13	7	17	3	12	2	4	14	8	18	6	16	10

Plan it in the Studio

Plan James River Country 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 nearby

James River Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Kiln Creek Golf Club Resort (4.6 mi, resort)

Measured against comparable courses

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

Figure	This course	In Virginia	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,598 yds	160th of 347	=5,254th of 12,025	33rd of 62 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area · 1,760th of 2,954 private courses · =5,218th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 135	=91st of 257	=2,233rd of 8,710	=10th of 47 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area · =978th of 2,300 private courses · =2,185th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 71.9	=141st of 234	=4,171st of 7,615	=30th of 46 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area · =1,572nd of 2,143 private courses · =4,124th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,584 yds between tees	179th of 341	=4,846th of 11,523	35th of 62 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area · =1,409th of 2,885 private courses · =4,774th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1932	42nd of 279	=1,889th of 9,368	7th of 47 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area · =852nd of 2,418 private courses · =1,391st of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	30 ft derived	=305th of 353	=11,030th of 12,437	=19th of 62 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area · =2,622nd of 3,026 private courses · =7,988th 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 7 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 7 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 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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