Courses · Florida

Bobby Jones Golf Club Championship Course

Sarasota, Florida · 18 holes · par 71 · Public. Designed by Donald Ross, opened 1927.

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 20 ft the ball carries about 0% farther than at sea level, so a 150-yard shot plays like about 150. Golfers visiting from low elevation should expect to club down.
• Biggest climb: hole 16, where the green sits 9 ft above the tee and plays about 3 yards longer.
• 18 greens tilt 2% or more. Each hole below says which side of the hole leaves an uphill putt.

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

415 (Red) · 400 (Black) · 380 (Blue) · 318 (White) yards · Handicap 7

Plays like

415level

Green · Red tee

399 · 415 · 431front · middle · back

Green size

32 × 30yards deep × wide

Fairway

50 ydswide at 273

Green slope

3.5%falls to the right

In play

• No bunkers or water mapped on this hole

Playing notes

• No hazards mapped in the driving zone (180 to 300 yards).
• The fairway is about 50 yards wide at 273 and narrows to 26 at 313.
• No hazards mapped around the green.
• The green falls from left to right, about 3.5%. Finish on the right side of the hole for an uphill putt.

Hole 2 · Par 4

430 (Red) · 411 (Black) · 389 (Blue) · 325 (White) yards · Handicap 3

Plays like

431+2 ft

Green · Red tee

414 · 430 · 444front · middle · back

Green size

33 × 31yards deep × wide

Fairway

45 ydswide at 236

Green slope

5%falls to the right

In play

• Water left: 6 to reach, 93 to carry
• Water across the hole: 121 to reach, 139 to carry
• Water back-left of the green

Playing notes

• Water crosses the hole: 121 to reach, 139 to carry.
• No hazards mapped in the driving zone (180 to 300 yards).
• The fairway is about 45 yards wide at 236 and narrows to 35 at 206.
• The green is guarded on the left by water; miss right.
• The green falls from left to right, about 5%. Finish on the right side of the hole for an uphill putt.

Hole 3 · Par 3

207 (Red) · 201 (Black) · 190 (Blue) · 156 (White) yards · Handicap 11

Plays like

208+3 ft

Green · Red tee

194 · 207 · 226front · middle · back

Green size

36 × 30yards deep × wide

Green slope

2.5%falls to the front

In play

• Water right: 43 to reach, 127 to carry
• Bunker right of the green

Playing notes

• The green is guarded on the right by bunkers; miss left.
• The green falls from back to front, about 2.5%. Finish on the front side of the hole for an uphill putt.
• The green is 36 yards deep: a back pin can play about 3 clubs more than a front pin.

Holes 4 to 18

4 · Par 55 · Par 56 · Par 47 · Par 48 · Par 39 · Par 410 · Par 411 · Par 512 · Par 413 · Par 314 · Par 415 · Par 416 · Par 317 · Par 418 · Par 4

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

• 15 plays-like yardages
• 70 hazards with reach and carry
• 15 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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