Courses · Texas

Cowan Creek Golf Club

Georgetown, Texas · 18 holes · par 72 · Private. Designed by Gary Stephenson, opened 2008.

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 850 ft the ball carries about 1% 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 climb: hole 8, where the green sits 25 ft above the tee and plays about 8 yards longer.
• Biggest drop: hole 9, 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

403 (Black) · 370 (Gold) · 335 (Blue) · 287 (Green) · 252 (Red) yards · Handicap 9

Plays like

408+14 ft

Green · Black tee

385 · 403 · 420front · middle · back

Green size

36 × 26yards deep × wide

Fairway

34 ydswide at 230

In play

• Bunker left of the green

Playing notes

• Plays about 5 yards longer: the green sits 14 ft above the tee.
• Dogleg left at about 250 yards.
• No hazards mapped in the driving zone (180 to 300 yards).
• The fairway is about 34 yards wide at 230.
• 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 2 · Par 3

186 (Black) · 175 (Gold) · 153 (Blue) · 126 (Green) · 126 (Red) yards · Handicap 15

Plays like

189+8 ft

Green · Black tee

174 · 186 · 197front · middle · back

Green size

31 × 32yards deep × wide

In play

• Bunker back-right of the green
• Water back of the green

Playing notes

• Plays about 3 yards longer: the green sits 8 ft above the tee.
• The green is guarded on the right by bunkers; miss left.

Hole 3 · Par 5

570 (Black) · 537 (Gold) · 509 (Blue) · 475 (Green) · 445 (Red) yards · Handicap 3

Plays like

568-5 ft

Green · Black tee

552 · 570 · 586front · middle · back

Green size

36 × 26yards deep × wide

Fairway

40 ydswide at 235

In play

• Bunker left: 484 to reach, 517 to carry
• Bunker right of the green

Playing notes

• Dogleg left at about 229 yards.
• No hazards mapped in the driving zone (180 to 300 yards).
• The fairway is about 40 yards wide at 235 and narrows to 29 at 205.
• Best lay-up: 100 to 170 yards from the green, where the fairway is about 41 yards wide with no bunkers or water within 16 yards.
• The green is guarded on the right by bunkers; miss left.
• 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 45 · Par 36 · Par 47 · Par 48 · Par 49 · Par 510 · Par 311 · Par 412 · Par 513 · Par 414 · Par 415 · Par 416 · Par 317 · Par 518 · Par 4

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

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