Empire Ranch Golf Course

Every green at Empire Ranch in Sparks, Nevada traced contour by contour, with fall lines, daily pins, and live wind in the GolfCore app.

GolfCore is not affiliated with or endorsed by Empire Ranch Golf Course.

The course map of Empire Ranch: fairways, tees, greens, bunkers and water traced hole by hole, the same map the app plays a round on.
  • 18Holes
  • 72Par
  • 7Rated tees
  • 18Greens mapped
  • 211Contours
  • 7.2%Steepest slope

About Empire Ranch

Empire Ranch Golf Course is an 18-hole golf course playing to par 72 in Sparks, Nevada. Cary Bickler designed it, and it opened in 1997. GolfCore has mapped 18 greens here with contour lines and fall-line arrows. The card below lists 7 rated tees with yardages for all 18 holes. GPS yardages and scoring are free in the GolfCore app.

Plan your visit

1875 Fairway Dr, Sparks, NV 89436

+1 775-629-4653

Green contour map of Empire Ranch in Sparks, Nevada: 211 elevation contours at a 3-inch interval with fall-line arrows, traced from 1-meter lidar
One of 18 mapped greens at Empire Ranch. Cool colors sit low and warm colors high; white lines are contours at a 3-inch interval, and the arrows point down the fall line.

How the greens break

GolfCore traced 18 greens at Empire Ranch from USGS 3DEP 1-meter lidar, with 211 elevation contours at a 3-inch interval. The steepest measured slope is 7.2 percent, and the largest rise across a single green is 3.9 ft.

In the app the same map sits under your ball on every green, with the fall line drawn to the hole and the wind modeled at your position. At clubs that run GolfCore, the pins the shop sets each morning show up there too.

Elevation: USGS 3D Elevation Program, U.S. Geological Survey, National Geospatial Program (public domain), processed by GolfCore.

The card

5,882 yds · Par 72 · Rating 67.4 · Slope 115

Hole 123456789 Out
Par 544434435 36
Yards 454297368352139302371144452 2,879
Hcp 12184141062816
Hole 101112131415161718 In
Par 454345434 36
Yards 299452394173277464378161405 3,003
Hcp 1713391511751

Total72 Yards5,882

Hole Par Yards Hcp
1 5 454 12
2 4 297 18
3 4 368 4
4 4 352 14
5 3 139 10
6 4 302 6
7 4 371 2
8 3 144 8
9 5 452 16
Out 36 2,879
10 4 299 17
11 5 452 13
12 4 394 3
13 3 173 9
14 4 277 15
15 5 464 11
16 4 378 7
17 3 161 5
18 4 405 1
In 36 3,003
Total 72 5,882

Course rating and slope

TeeYardsParRating / Slope
Black 6,751 72 71.0 / 124
Blue 6,370 72 69.8 / 119
Black 6,185 72 –
White 5,882 72 67.4 / 115
Green 5,356 72 64.9 / 103 69.9 / 123 (W)
Green Men 5,348 72 64.9 / 118
Red 4,873 72 67.1 / 117

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. Spot a wrong par, yardage or stroke index? Report it from Map Settings in the app, or send us a correction.

Course details

Location
Sparks, Nevada, United States
Address
1875 Fairway Dr, Sparks, NV 89436
Architect
Cary Bickler
Opened
1997
Holes
18
Par
72
Tees on the card
8, 7 USGA-rated
Greens mapped
18
Elevation contours
211
Contour interval
3-inch
Largest green elevation span
3.9 ft
Steepest measured slope
7.2%
Course map
Traced hole by hole
Wind modeling
Live wind grid, 16 directions
Tree canopy
1-meter canopy height model
Course data updated
2026-11-10

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Staff at Empire Ranch can claim this course by signing in with an email address at the club's own domain, then edit its address, phone, website and crest at no charge. Read how a club keeps its course right. The same system runs a club's tee sheet and caddie yard; read how caddie management on GolfCore works.

GolfCore maps courses from public elevation data and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Empire Ranch.