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Poplar Forest Golf Course is a 9-hole public course in Forest, Virginia.

It plays 3,310 yards from the Blue tees, slope 128 (checked 2026-08-24).

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9
holes
36
par
3,310
yards (tips)
128
slope (blue)
The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLUE TEES375400135550350185465500350142433455463748594PAROUT 1,460 YDSIN 1,850 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 9 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

access
public
address
Poplar Forest Parkway, VA, 24551
elevation
901 ft derived
opened
1980
on site
lessons

37.35122, -79.27401 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 9 holes. The green of hole 7 is predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. 18 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

90 features across 8 layers for Poplar Forest Golf Course, 89 traced and 1 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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90 features across 8 layers for Poplar Forest Golf Course, 89 traced and 1 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Some outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

9
Holes
10
Fairways
21
Bunkers
1
Water
9
Greens
24
Tee pads
3,310yds
Blue tees
550yds
Longest hole
135yds
Shortest hole

89 imported from OpenStreetMap and 1 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-10-13

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-24

Yardagesopen datachecked 2026-08-24

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

Sorted by Yards, descending. 4 rows.

BlueM363310128
WhiteM363145124
GoldM36282065.0115
RedM36277065.0117

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-24

Hole 123456789 Total
Par 443543454 36
Blue 375400135550350185465500350 3,310
White 355380125525325160450485340 3,145
Gold 345313115447320150367433330 2,820
Red 335310105445315145365430320 2,770
Handicap 1551711311379

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Poplar Forest Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 90 of its features, 89 traced and 1 predicted by a model, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

  • 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

See the courses it plans Open the Studio

Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Poplar Forest 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: Colonial Hills Golf Club (1.8 mi) · London Downs Golf Club (4.1 mi) · Ivy Hill Golf Club (4.3 mi) · Poplar Grove Golf Club (19 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
Longest3,310 yds294th of 347=9,669th of 12,025=3,047th of 4,105 public courses · =5,348th of 7,004 courses you can book · =288th of 1,791 9-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 128=171st of 257=4,449th of 8,710=1,009th of 2,882 public courses · =2,008th of 4,936 courses you can book · =98th of 972 9-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 65.0227th of 234=7,286th of 7,615=2,265th of 2,412 public courses · =3,939th of 4,145 courses you can book · =141st of 199 9-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread540 yds between tees311th of 341=10,003rd of 11,5233,176th of 3,841 public courses · =5,588th of 6,653 courses you can book · =782nd of 1,640 9-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1980=140th of 279=5,425th of 9,368=1,685th of 3,277 public courses · =2,945th of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,013th of 1,347 9-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level901 ft derived 83rd of 353=4,109th of 12,437=1,570th of 4,289 public courses · =2,669th of 7,274 courses you can book · =814th of 1,830 9-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 4 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 2 sets of tees.
  • Course map, built.All 9 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 the architect, 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 2026-08-24. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Nearby courses

Colonial Hills Golf Club

1.8 mi · Forest · public · 18 holes

London Downs Golf Club

4.1 mi · Forest · semi-private · 18 holes

Ivy Hill Golf Club

4.3 mi · Forest · semi-private · 18 holes

Boonsboro Country Club

7.6 mi · Lynchburg · private · 18 holes

Bedford Country Club

15 mi · Bedford · private · 9 holes

Poplar Grove Golf Club

19 mi · Amherst · public · 18 holes

Falling River Country Club

22 mi · Appomattox · private · 18 holes

Winton Country Club

24 mi · Clifford · semi-private · 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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