Golf course aerial views and GPS course layouts
Every18 carries a golf course aerial view for all 12,600+ golf courses in the United States, 12,624 of them today. Open any course page and you see the real ground it is built on, with the hole routing traced over it and every green numbered, so you can walk a course in your head before you ever set foot on it.
This is photography, not an artist
Each layout starts as real aerial photography from the USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program, flown over the whole of the United States on a repeating cycle and released into the public domain. Every fairway, bunker, tree line and water hazard you see is the course as the camera found it, not a drawing of what someone thought it looked like.
On top of that photograph sits the routing: the run of each hole from tee to green, drawn from open course geometry, with the greens numbered in playing order. That pairing is what makes an aerial worth reading. A photograph alone tells you the terrain but not the golf. A GPS course layout alone tells you the golf but not the ground. Together they tell you which side of the fairway is safe, how far the trouble carries, and where a dogleg actually turns.
The imagery is public domain and the geometry is open data, so no course pays to appear here and none can pay to change how it looks. Coverage is national and it is complete.
Six courses, six landforms
The same treatment reads differently on every kind of golf course. These six span six states and six landscapes, from a clifftop municipal above the Pacific to sandhills pine in Carolina. Open any of them to see the full aerial at page width.
Find your course
Every state has its own hub listing every course in it. These are the eight with the most aerial layouts on the site.
- Golf courses in CaliforniaAerial layouts available for 896 of 897 California courses
- Golf courses in FloridaAerial layouts available for 830 of 831 Florida courses
- Golf courses in MichiganAerial layouts available for all 816 Michigan courses
- Golf courses in New YorkAerial layouts available for all 661 New York courses
- Golf courses in TexasAerial layouts available for all 612 Texas courses
- Golf courses in IllinoisAerial layouts available for all 548 Illinois courses
- Golf courses in OhioAerial layouts available for all 504 Ohio courses
- Golf courses in PennsylvaniaAerial layouts available for all 495 Pennsylvania courses
Not on that list? Browse all 51 state hubs or open the interactive map.
Imagery and credit
Aerial photography comes from the USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program, distributed by the USGS and in the public domain. Course geometry comes from OpenStreetMap contributors. Public domain does not mean unattributed, so the credit runs wherever the imagery does: Imagery: USDA NAIP / USGS. Layouts are illustrative and are not a substitute for a rangefinder or a scorecard.
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