Dunes 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.

18Greens Mapped 146Elevation Contours 6.9%Steepest Slope 18Holes 72Par 4Rated Tees

Green contour map of Dunes in Empire, Michigan — 146 elevation contours at a 3-inch interval with fall-line arrows, traced from 1-meter lidar — One of 18 mapped greens at Dunes, 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	Empire, Michigan, United States
Address	6489 W Empire Hwy, Empire, MI
Holes	18
Par	72
Tees on the card	4, 4 USGA-rated
Greens mapped	18
Elevation contours	146
Contour interval	3-inch
Largest green elevation span	3.4 ft
Steepest measured slope	6.9%
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

5,731 yds · Par 72 · Rating 67.7 · Slope 111

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out
Par	4	5	3	4	5	4	4	3	4	36
Yards	351	482	180	315	487	445	339	174	379	3,152
Hcp	9	5	15	17	3	1	11	13	7

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In
Par	5	3	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	36
Yards	450	139	299	272	227	427	297	132	335	2,578
Hcp	2	14	8	12	18	6	10	16	4

Total72 Yards5,730

Hole	Par	Yards	Hcp
1	4	351	9
2	5	482	5
3	3	180	15
4	4	315	17
5	5	487	3
6	4	445	1
7	4	339	11
8	3	174	13
9	4	379	7
Out	36	3,152
10	5	450	2
11	3	139	14
12	4	299	8
13	4	272	12
14	4	227	18
15	5	427	6
16	4	297	10
17	3	132	16
18	4	335	4
In	36	2,578
Total	72	5,730

Course rating and slope

Tee	Yards	Par	Rating / Slope
White	5,731	72	67.7 / 111 73.1 / 123 (W)
Copper	4,899	72	63.4 / 102 68.4 / 111 (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 Dunes

GolfCore's library covers Dunes Gc green by green: 18 putting surfaces traced with 146 elevation contours from USGS 3DEP 1-meter lidar. The steepest measured slope on these greens tilts at 6.9 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. Dunes Gc 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 Dunes 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 Dunes. Represent this club? Request changes or removal through our contact page.