Lake Padden Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Bellingham, Washington.

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holes

par

6,575

yards (tips)

127

slope (black)

The shape of the round · Granite 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: Roy Goss/Glen Proctor reported
access: public
address: Sandstone Way, Bellingham, WA, 98229
phone: 642-698-0430
website: course site →
elevation: 486 ft derived
opened: 1970
on site: driving range · restaurant · lessons

48.70439, -122.44409 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 2 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

117 traced features across 6 layers for Lake Padden Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2017 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Greens

Tee pads

6,107yds

Granite tees

497yds

Longest hole

137yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2017-09-02

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

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


Black	M	72	6575	71.9	127
Green	M	72	6348	70.8	125
Granite	M	72	6153	69.8	123	3110	2997
Red	M	72	5725	68.0	121	2906	2829
Red	F	72	5725	73.5	124	2906	2829
Gold	M	72	5458	66.9	117	2761	2687
Gold	F	72	5458	72.1	121	2761	2687

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

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	4	3	5	3	5	4	4	4	5	3	5	4	4	3	4	4	72
Granite	389	331	360	159	483	193	497	340	358	385	471	137	495	306	353	151	334	365	6,153
Red	328	331	316	129	483	165	456	340	358	342	424	137	455	306	315	151	334	365	5,725
Gold	328	290	316	129	442	165	456	317	318	342	424	127	455	287	315	127	292	318	5,458
Handicap	1	15	11	9	7	3	5	17	13	2	6	18	4	14	8	12	16	10

No per-hole yardages are published for Black and Green, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Lake Padden 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 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

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.

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Lake Padden 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: Sudden Valley Golf Country Club (5.4 mi) · North Bellingham Golf Course (8.7 mi) · Shuksan Golf Club (10 mi) · Avalon Golf Links North West Course (13 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 Washington	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,575 yds	94th of 246	=5,395th of 12,025	=1,396th of 4,105 public courses · =2,621st of 7,004 courses you can book · =5,357th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 127	=75th of 199	=4,741st of 8,710	=1,094th of 2,882 public courses · =2,184th of 4,936 courses you can book · =4,585th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 71.9	=71st of 170	=4,171st of 7,615	=1,031st of 2,412 public courses · =1,941st of 4,145 courses you can book · =4,124th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,117 yds between tees	125th of 234	=7,774th of 11,523	=2,298th of 3,841 public courses · =4,203rd of 6,653 courses you can book · =7,578th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1970	=114th of 218	=4,455th of 9,368	=1,310th of 3,277 public courses · =2,340th of 5,526 courses you can book · =3,157th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	486 ft derived	96th of 252	=7,275th of 12,437	=2,895th of 4,289 public courses · =4,698th of 7,274 courses you can book · =5,170th 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 5 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.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold 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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Shuksan Golf Club

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Avalon Golf Links West South Course

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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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