Sudden Valley Golf Country Club is an 18-hole semi-private course in Bellingham, Washington.

It plays 6,553 yards from the Blue tees, rated 71.9/130 (checked 2026-08-15).

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holes

par

6,553

yards (tips)

130

slope (blue)

The shape of the round · Blue 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: semi-private
address: Longshore Lane, Bellingham, WA
website: course site →
elevation: 333 ft derived
opened: 1970
on site: driving range · pro shop · restaurant · lessons

48.71281, -122.32578 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 9 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

163 traced features across 8 layers for Sudden Valley Golf Country Club, drawn over NAIP 2017 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,464yds

Blue tees

508yds

Longest hole

171yds

Shortest hole

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

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 10 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Blue	F	72	6553contested	6464	77.7	143	3321	3143
Blue	M	72	6553contested	6464	71.9	130	3321	3143
White	F	72	6143		75.7	138
White	M	72	6143		69.4	125
Combo	F	72	5943		74.4	135
Combo	M	72	5943		68.8	120
Silver	M	72	5627contested	5549	67.8	114	2830	2719
Silver	F	72	5627contested	5549	72.4	129	2830	2719
Gold	F	72	4705contested	4567	66.8	118	2327	2240
Gold	M	72	4705contested	4567	63.1	102	2327	2240

Every figure as published except Card yards (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 Blue, Silver and Gold tees publish a yardage total 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 Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

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	5	4	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	5	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	72
Blue	508	382	381	177	420	402	483	175	393	464	328	360	173	359	418	171	490	380	6,553
Silver	443	335	328	120	366	346	406	148	338	412	304	337	136	316	305	117	444	348	5,627
Gold	379	270	281	120	280	262	346	112	277	329	241	265	103	235	305	117	366	279	4,705
Handicap	13	9	11	17	1	5	7	15	3	4	12	14	16	2	10	18	6	8

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

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Sudden Valley Golf 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

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 Sudden Valley Golf Country 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: Lake Padden Golf Course (5.4 mi) · Shuksan Golf Club (10 mi) · North Bellingham Golf Course (11 mi) · Avalon Golf Links North West Course (12 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	6,553 yds	98th of 246	=5,601st of 12,025	=802nd of 2,030 semi-private courses · =2,741st of 7,004 courses you can book · =5,559th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 130	=56th of 199	=3,777th of 8,710	=491st of 1,395 semi-private courses · =1,625th of 4,936 courses you can book · =3,684th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 71.9	=71st of 170	=4,171st of 7,615	=548th of 1,141 semi-private courses · =1,941st of 4,145 courses you can book · =4,124th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,848 yds between tees	45th of 234	=3,141st of 11,523	=465th of 1,970 semi-private courses · =1,558th of 6,653 courses you can book · =3,090th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1970	=114th of 218	=4,455th of 9,368	=765th of 1,516 semi-private courses · =2,340th of 5,526 courses you can book · =3,157th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	333 ft derived	133rd of 252	=8,178th of 12,437	1,373rd of 2,089 semi-private courses · =5,199th of 7,274 courses you can book · =5,841st 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 6 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 10 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 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 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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