China Lake drawn from GolfCore's traced course vectors — fairways, tees, greens, bunkers and water, in the app's own colors. This is the same geometry the app maps a round on.

10Greens Mapped 72Elevation Contours 6.0%Steepest Slope 9Holes 36Par 14Rated Tees

Green contour map of China Lake in Ridgecrest, California — 72 elevation contours at a 3-inch interval with fall-line arrows, traced from 1-meter lidar — One of 10 mapped greens at China Lake, drawn from GolfCore's contour data baked from USGS 3DEP 1-meter lidar, in the same colors the app uses. Elevation bands run cool-low to warm-high; white lines are contours at a 3-inch interval, and dark arrows point down the fall line.

The course, by the numbers

Location	Ridgecrest, California, United States
Address	Naval Air Weapon Station, Ridgecrest, CA
Phone	(760) 939-2990
Website	navylifesw.com/china-lake-golf-course
Holes	9
Par	36
Tees on the card	14, 14 USGA-rated
Greens mapped	10
Elevation contours	72
Contour interval	3-inch
Largest green elevation span	2.9 ft
Steepest measured slope	6.0%
Course map	Traced hole by hole
Wind modeling	Live wind grid, 16 directions
Tree canopy	1-meter canopy height model
Course data updated	2026-09-01

The card

Tees

6,398 yds · Par 72 · Rating 70.6 · Slope 118

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out
Par	5	4	4	4	4	3	5	3	4	36
Yards	466	350	387	328	424	168	521	151	413	3,208
Hcp	14	2	12	8	10	6	16	18	4

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In
Par	5	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	5	36
Yards	523	216	381	408	413	340	380	169	516	3,346
Hcp	7	5	9	3	13	17	1	15	11

Total72 Yards6,554

Hole	Par	Yards	Hcp
1	5	466	14
2	4	350	2
3	4	387	12
4	4	328	8
5	4	424	10
6	3	168	6
7	5	521	16
8	3	151	18
9	4	413	4
Out	36	3,208
10	5	523	7
11	3	216	5
12	4	381	9
13	4	408	3
14	4	413	13
15	4	340	17
16	4	380	1
17	3	169	15
18	5	516	11
In	36	3,346
Total	72	6,554

Course rating and slope

Tee	Yards	Par	Rating / Slope
Blue	6,800	72	72.4 / 122 78.6 / 137 (W)
Blue/White	6,599	72	71.5 / 120 77.5 / 134 (W)
White	6,398	72	70.6 / 118 76.4 / 131 (W)
White/Gold	6,127	72	69.3 / 115 74.9 / 128 (W)
Gold	5,856	72	68.0 / 112 73.4 / 125 (W)
Gold/Red	5,653	72	67.1 / 110 72.2 / 122 (W)
Red	5,450	72	66.2 / 108 71.0 / 119 (W)

Hole data is what GolfCore holds for the course's layout. Picking a tee shows that tee's own yardages, pars and stroke indexes where the club has rated them. Clubs correct their own data in the app.

What GolfCore has for China Lake

GolfCore's library covers China Lake Golf Course green by green: 10 putting surfaces traced with 72 elevation contours from USGS 3DEP 1-meter lidar. The steepest measured slope on these greens tilts at 6.0 percent — the difference between a putt that dies at the hole and one that runs four feet past.

In the app, players and caddies read the same data live on the course: contour bands with fall-line arrows, wind simulated at the player's position, and pin positions that clubs on GolfCore set each morning. China Lake Golf Course is one of more than six thousand courses GolfCore has mapped green by green.

For clubs, the same system runs the tee sheet and the caddie yard — assignments off real tee times, SMS confirmations, and a caddie network that spans every club on the platform. Read how caddie management on GolfCore works.

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Staff at China Lake can claim this course by signing in with an email address at the club's own domain. That sets the club up on GolfCore with you as an administrator.

GolfCore maps courses from public elevation data and is not affiliated with or endorsed by China Lake. Represent this club? Request changes or removal through our contact page.