Courses · California

Encinitas Ranch Golf Course

Encinitas, California · 18 holes · par 72 · Public. Designed by Cary Bickler, ASGCA, opened 1998.

A caddie's yardage book for every hole: plays-like distance from USGS lidar elevation, reach and carry numbers for every bunker and water hazard, green front, middle and back, which way each green falls, and the lay-up zone on par 5s. Distances are from the back tees along the mapped hole; for a shorter tee, take off the scorecard difference.

Course profile

• At about 320 ft the ball carries about 0% farther than at sea level, so a 150-yard shot plays like about 149. Golfers visiting from low elevation should expect to club down.
• Biggest drop: hole 5, where the green sits 50 ft below the tee and plays about 17 yards shorter.

Maps: tee at the bottom, green at the top. The dashed line is the mapped hole; the gold band is the lay-up zone; the arrow on the green points downhill.

Scorecard

Tees

Hole 1 · Par 4

347 (Blue) · 297 (White) · 275 (Gold) yards · Handicap 15

Green · Blue tee

325 · 347 · 365front · middle · back

Green size

41 × 24yards deep × wide

Fairway

42 ydswide at 214

In play

• Bunker right: 209 to reach, 235 to carry
• Bunker left: 225 to reach, 244 to carry
• Bunker front-left of the green

Playing notes

• Hazards on both sides of the fairway from 209 yards; a tee shot that finishes short of 209 keeps them out of play.
• The fairway is about 42 yards wide at 214 and narrows to 28 at 237.
• The green is guarded on the left by bunkers; miss right.
• The green is 41 yards deep: a back pin can play about 3 clubs more than a front pin.

Hole 2 · Par 3

192 (Blue) · 168 (White) · 122 (Gold) yards · Handicap 7

Green · Blue tee

180 · 192 · 204front · middle · back

Green size

40 × 37yards deep × wide

In play

• Bunker left of the green
• Bunker right of the green
• Bunker back of the green

Playing notes

• Hazards guard both sides of the green; aim for the middle.
• The green is 40 yards deep: a back pin can play about 3 clubs more than a front pin.

Hole 3 · Par 5

527 (Blue) · 522 (White) · 495 (Gold) yards · Handicap 11

Green · Blue tee

511 · 527 · 541front · middle · back

Green size

37 × 33yards deep × wide

Fairway

50 ydswide at 230

In play

• Bunker left: 249 to reach, 279 to carry
• Bunker left: 448 to reach, 479 to carry
• Bunker front-right of the green

Playing notes

• Fairway bunkers on the left: 249 to reach, 279 to carry. Drives that finish short of 249 stay clear; otherwise the right side is the safer line off the tee.
• The fairway is about 50 yards wide at 230.
• Best lay-up: 70 to 170 yards from the green, where the fairway is about 37 yards wide with no bunkers or water within 16 yards.
• The green is guarded on the right by bunkers; miss left.
• The green is 37 yards deep: a back pin can play about 3 clubs more than a front pin.

Holes 4 to 18

4 · Par 45 · Par 46 · Par 37 · Par 48 · Par 49 · Par 510 · Par 411 · Par 512 · Par 313 · Par 414 · Par 415 · Par 416 · Par 417 · Par 318 · Par 5

The rest of this guide has the same caddie detail for every hole:

• 1 plays-like yardages
• 52 hazards with reach and carry
• 4 green slope reads
• 3 par-5 lay-up zones

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Hole maps, hazards and playing notes come from mapped course data and USGS 3DEP elevation (public domain), not a visit. Plays-like numbers use the Skitty caddie's rule of one yard per 3 ft of rise, from the longest tee; altitude uses 1.16% of carry per 1,000 ft. Tees, hazards and conditions change; check with the course before you play. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0) via OpenGolfAPI. Scorecard yardages and ratings as published. See a mistake? Email [email protected].

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