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Blackhawk Country Club is an 18-hole golf course in Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin.

Designed by A. W. Tillinghast, Dick Nugent. It plays 6,175 yards from the Black tees, rated 70.5/126 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
72
par
6,175
yards (tips)
126
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES375309398319188364578397347310274526526274273170406141142434445364758494104114125135144154163174183PAROUT 3,275 YDSIN 2,900 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
A. W. Tillinghast, Dick Nugent reported
address
3606 Blackhawk Drive, Shorewood Hills, WI, 53705
phone
608-231-2454
elevation
934 ft derived
opened
1921
turf
Bent Grass greens · Bent Grass fairways
on site
restaurant

43.07854, -89.45869 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 33 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

147 traced features across 8 layers for Blackhawk Country Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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147 traced features across 8 layers for Blackhawk Country Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
19
Fairways
38
Bunkers
1
Water
18
Greens
36
Tee pads
6,175yds
Black tees
578yds
Longest hole
141yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-06-26

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.

BlackM72617570.512632752900
WhiteM72593969.512331412798
GoldM725575contested545768.012128672590
GoldF725575contested545773.012728672590
RedM725355contested522770.312327252502

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 Gold and Red 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 — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 444434544445544343 72
Black 375309398319188364578397347310274526526274273170406141 6,175
White 367301392310162345562373329310262514516245261158401131 5,939
Gold 350301341286143305452360329307262463485245261158278131 5,575
Red 350278341281120305452319279307250463485214249133278123 5,355
Handicap 915313177151181424121016618

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Blackhawk 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 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 Blackhawk 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: Odana Hills Golf Course (2.3 mi) · Par 3 Course (2.5 mi) · Nine Springs Golf Course (4.3 mi) · Maple Bluff Country Club (5.1 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn WisconsinNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,175 yds196th of 337=7,890th of 12,02521st of 36 in the Madison, WI metro area · =7,817th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 126=99th of 225=5,028th of 8,710=11th of 30 in the Madison, WI metro area · =4,838th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 70.5=135th of 210=5,684th of 7,615=15th of 27 in the Madison, WI metro area · =5,591st of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread820 yds between tees225th of 316=9,022nd of 11,52324th of 34 in the Madison, WI metro area · =8,510th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1921=20th of 258=816th of 9,3683rd of 35 in the Madison, WI metro area · =594th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level934 ft derived 133rd of 355=3,851st of 12,43715th of 37 in the Madison, WI metro area · =2,664th 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.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold whether it is public or private.

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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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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