338 out of 345 reviews Read Reviews About Holes 18 Type Semi-Private Par 72 Length 7186 yards Slope 130 Rating 74.0 Book a Tee Time at Juniper Golf Course Powered by GolfNow.com Book a Tee Time Satellite Layout Tees Track Rounds Scorecard Course Details Year Built 2005 Golf Season Year round. High Season: May 28 - September 19
The 18-hole Juniper Golf Club in Redmond, OR is a semi-private golf course that opened in 2005. Designed by John Harbottle III, Juniper Golf Club measures 7186 yards from the longest tees and has a slope rating of 130 and a 74 USGA rating. The course features 7 …
Jul 07, 2009 · Juniper Golf Course (Redmond, OR) Greens Fees: $30 to $64 depending on season and time of day. Architect: John Harbottle III. ... The green is located at the bottom of a left to right slope that can be used to kick drives onto the front of the putting surface. At forty paces deep, a tee shot to the wrong section of the green can leave a long ...
Juniper Golf Course is an attractive high desert 18-hole public course is just south of Redmond. Juniper Golf Course is very well maintained with lots of juniper and sage, lots of traps, and some water. The holes are varied and attractively designed. Driving areas are generally large, but there is a lot of mounding in the fairways and ...
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Par | 72 (71 - U.S. Open) |
Length | 7,075 yards (6,469 m) |
Course rating | 75.5 (U.S. Open) |
Slope rating | 145 |
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Length | 7,510 yards (6,870 m) |
Course rating | 78.1 (unofficial) |
Slope rating | 137 (unofficial) |
Course record | 63 - Nick Price (1986), Greg Norman (1996) |
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Length | 7,468 yards (6,829 m) |
Course rating | 77.5 |
Slope rating | 155 |
Course record | 63 – Brooks Koepka (2019) |
It can be difficult to gauge your distance to the pin since the green is forty paces deep and slopes off the back.
The putting surface runs from back left to front right and is bunkered on the left, right and front. There is plenty of depth for a mid or long iron to hold the green, although many golfers will have a short iron approach.
The fifth is a challenging long par four, especially when playing into the wind as is normal. Harbottle has routed the hole so that the golfer will naturally direct a tee shot to the right side of the fairway, which means the approach will be played from behind the large mound on the right side of the fairway. This mound is a wonderful feature that adds a lot of character to the hole. Anything in line with the 150 yard marker will provide a decent look at the green.
A lay up to 100 yards still leaves a semi-blind approach to the green.
The green is located at the bottom of a left to right slope that can be used to kick drives onto the front of the putting surface. At forty paces deep, a tee shot to the wrong section of the green can leave a long birdie putt.
Juniper is semi-private and receives a great deal of “visitor” play, especially during the summer.
The green is open in the middle, but well bunkered at the front on either side. There is another bunker short right to penalize the golfer who goes for it but pushes or fades their fairway metal, and more sand waits at the back for the golfer who brings their approach in too hot.
The original Juniper Golf Course was built on property owned by the Federal Aviation Administration next to the Redmond Airport. The front 9 opened in 1952 designed by Fred Sparks and the second 9 opened in 1987 designed by Tim Berg. The expansion of Highway 97 and increasing lease rates from the FAA caused the original course to close. Members worked with the City of Redmond to purchase BLM land two miles south of the original course. The new course opened in 2005. In 2007, Golf Digest named it the 6th best public course in the country that you could play for less than $65. Golf Digest has also named the course the best municipal course in Oregon. Hosted Oregon Open in 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2017 and has hosted USGA qualifying events.
The “Juniper” sign in front of the course (as you turn onto Elkhorn) is from the original course.
Almost all the greens have a ridgeback near the center dividing the left and right sides. The greens are also generally hard and fast and run away from the fairway. So unless you have really good spin control, running the ball up to the correct side of the green is the way to go.
A golf course slope is a USGA designated rating number that indicates the difficulty of a specific course for bogey golfers. This number is used to calculate a player’s handicap index. The value is between 55 and 155, and the average standard slope number ranges from 113 to 120. The higher the slope number, the more difficult the golf course is for average golfers.
Thus, the slope number converts a golfer’s handicap into a course handicap. In this way, it is made sure that a bogey golfer is allowed to play at an equal level to a scratch golfer, and it helps them obtain enough strokes from the same set of tees. This is the mathematical formula of how it is derived:
The standard procedure to calculate the slope rating is to multiply the difference between the bogey rating and the USGA score rating. The score you get when the expected good score for a Scratch golfer (a zero handicapper) is multiplied by the expected good score for a bogey golfer (a Mid handicap golfer with a range from 18 to 30).
When rating the course, the team evaluates the landing area for a bogey golfer the first 200 yards off the tee. They measure the width of the fairway, consider any existing bunkers, and estimate the distance from the fairway center to the nearest boundary/hazard line or trees. The same measurement is applied for scratch golfers, adding 50 yards to the landing area off the tee. The process continues until the team reaches the green. There, the rating team measures the depth and the width of the Putting green, the bunkers and the water hazards, and the distance to the boundary line.
Therefore, the course rating provides scratch golfers information about the course difficulty, while the slope rating delivers the same information to bogey golfers. In other words, the USGA slope rating indicates the additional playing difficulty of the course for average golfers compared to scratch players. The dominant factor that defines the course difficulty is the golf course rating, not the slope rating.
So, once the golf course is rated, the bogey rating and the scratch rating are determined for each set of tees, leading to determining the slope number.
It is expressed in strokes, so an easy par-72 golf course could have a 68.9 course rating, while the more difficult one is likely to have a rating of 74.5. In other words, an average golfer should expect to play 68.9 strokes when the course playing difficulty is rated ‘easy,’ while on a challenging course, the same golfer is expected ...