Skitty Golf

Courses · North Carolina

Brier Creek Country Club

Raleigh, North Carolina · 18 holes · par 72 · Private. Designed by Arnold Palmer, opened 2000.

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

Bunkers52
Holes with water8 of 18
Average fairway width36 yds
Typical green5,100 sq ft

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

HoleParHcpGoldBlackBlueWhiteRed
1413351351324307281
257501525501462435
349426426392357334
431714114111910893
5511499528499487446
643392392366354312
741447495447408346
8315188188170140109
945375408375358306
1042423452423391363
1144396424396356328
12510491491457423399
13418332332299258216
14316170170148136106
1558520520493459416
1631218918918614698
17414359359348322296
1846390422390361331

Tees

TeeYardsRatingSlope
GoldMale702973136
BlackMale679372132
BlueFemale651877139
BlueMale651870.6129
SilverFemale629875.5136
SilverMale629869.5127
WhiteFemale607873.8131
WhiteMale607868.1124
RedMale537565.1115
RedFemale537570.4123

Hole 1 · Par 4

351 (Gold) · 351 (Black) · 324 (Blue) · 307 (White) · 281 (Red) yards · Handicap 13

Green · Gold tee
336 · 351 · 364front · middle · back
Green size
32 × 24yards deep × wide
Fairway
41 ydswide at 217

In play

  • Bunker right: 224 to reach, 246 to carry
  • Bunker across the hole in front of the green: 330 to carry

Playing notes

  • Fairway bunkers on the right: 224 to reach, 246 to carry. Drives that finish short of 224 stay clear; otherwise the left side is the safer line off the tee.
  • The fairway is about 41 yards wide at 217 and narrows to 26 at 258.
  • The green is guarded on the right by bunkers; miss left.

Hole 2 · Par 5

Lay-up zone

501 (Gold) · 525 (Black) · 501 (Blue) · 462 (White) · 435 (Red) yards · Handicap 7

Green · Black tee
507 · 525 · 540front · middle · back
Green size
36 × 20yards deep × wide
Fairway
36 ydswide at 230

In play

  • Bunker right: 278 to reach, 293 to carry
  • Bunker front-left of the green
  • Bunker back-left of the green

Playing notes

  • Fairway bunkers on the right: 278 to reach, 293 to carry. Drives that finish short of 278 stay clear; otherwise the left side is the safer line off the tee.
  • The fairway is about 36 yards wide at 230 and narrows to 25 at 280.
  • Best lay-up: 70 to 170 yards from the green, where the fairway is about 31 yards wide with no bunkers or water within 16 yards.
  • The green is guarded on the left by bunkers; miss right.
  • The green is 36 yards deep: a back pin can play about 3 clubs more than a front pin.

Hole 3 · Par 4

426 (Gold) · 426 (Black) · 392 (Blue) · 357 (White) · 334 (Red) yards · Handicap 9

Green · Gold tee
414 · 426 · 436front · middle · back
Green size
32 × 35yards deep × wide
Fairway
35 ydswide at 233

In play

  • Water right: 3 to reach, 108 to carry
  • Bunker right: 246 to reach, 275 to carry
  • Bunker left: 340 to reach, 351 to carry
  • Bunker front-left of the green

Playing notes

  • Fairway bunkers on the right: 246 to reach, 275 to carry. Drives that finish short of 246 stay clear; otherwise the left side is the safer line off the tee.
  • The fairway is about 35 yards wide at 233 and narrows to 30 at 253.
  • The green is guarded on the left by bunkers; miss right.

Holes 4 to 18

4 · Par 35 · Par 56 · Par 47 · Par 48 · Par 39 · Par 410 · Par 411 · Par 412 · Par 513 · Par 414 · Par 315 · Par 516 · Par 317 · Par 418 · Par 4

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

  • 48 hazards with reach and carry
  • 2 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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