Portage Lake Golf Club

Every green at Portage Lake in Houghton, Michigan traced contour by contour, with fall lines, daily pins, and live wind in the GolfCore app.

GolfCore is not affiliated with or endorsed by Portage Lake Golf Club.

Portage 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.
20Greens Mapped 197Elevation Contours 7.4%Steepest Slope 18Holes 72Par 14Rated Tees
Green contour map of Portage Lake in Houghton, Michigan — 197 elevation contours at a 3-inch interval with fall-line arrows, traced from 1-meter lidar
One of 20 mapped greens at Portage 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

LocationHoughton, Michigan, United States
Address46789 N. Hwy. US-41, HOUGHTON, MI
Phone(906) 487-2641
Websitemtu.edu/golfcourse
Holes18
Par72
Tees on the card14, 14 USGA-rated
Greens mapped20
Elevation contours197
Contour interval3-inch
Largest green elevation span5.0 ft
Steepest measured slope7.4%
Course mapTraced hole by hole
Wind modelingLive wind grid, 16 directions
Tree canopy1-meter canopy height model
Course data updated2026-09-01

The card

4,860 yds · Par 72 · Rating 62.9 · Slope 107

Hole 123456789 Out
Par 454344534 36
Yards 31042230995317317435150280 2,635
Hcp 1593177151311
Hole 101112131415161718 In
Par 444433455 36
Yards 27528023521585135275420415 2,335
Hcp 42121618108146

Total72 Yards4,970

Hole Par Yards Hcp
1 4 310 15
2 5 422 9
3 4 309 3
4 3 95 17
5 4 317 7
6 4 317 1
7 5 435 5
8 3 150 13
9 4 280 11
Out 36 2,635
10 4 275 4
11 4 280 2
12 4 235 12
13 4 215 16
14 3 85 18
15 3 135 10
16 4 275 8
17 5 420 14
18 5 415 6
In 36 2,335
Total 72 4,970

Course rating and slope

TeeYardsParRating / Slope
Black 6,303 72 70.1 / 128 76.3 / 136 (W)
Silver 5,973 72 68.6 / 125 74.5 / 132 (W)
Silver/Gold 5,583 72 66.8 / 114 72.1 / 125 (W)
Gold 5,232 72 65.0 / 109 70.0 / 118 (W)
White 4,860 72 62.9 / 107 67.9 / 115 (W)
US Kids Level 2 4,205 72 61.2 / 100 64.0 / 110 (W)
US Kids Level 1 3,110 72 57.4 / 96 58.4 / 93 (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 Portage Lake

GolfCore's library covers Portage Lake Golf Club green by green: 20 putting surfaces traced with 197 elevation contours from USGS 3DEP 1-meter lidar. The steepest measured slope on these greens tilts at 7.4 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. Portage Lake Golf Club 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 Portage 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 Portage Lake. Represent this club? Request changes or removal through our contact page.