A directory you can take at its word.

Par 5 is an independent directory of golf in the United States. The goal is simple and a little stubborn: one page for every course in the country — more than fifteen thousand of them — organized by state and town, fast to load, and honest about what's known.

Where the data comes from

Course listings are built from OpenStreetMap, the open, community-maintained map of the world, used under the Open Database License. That means names, locations, hole counts, and websites come from open data that anyone can inspect and improve. If a detail isn't in the data, it isn't on the page.

The house rules

No invented course histories. No imagined designers, ratings, or green fees. No descriptions of holes nobody here has stood on. Where a page offers context, it's genuinely regional — geography, not embellishment. A thin, accurate page beats a rich, fabricated one, and that trade is made the same way fifteen thousand times.

What's coming

The directory is rolling out state by state, alongside trip guides at /guides/ and small free tools at /tools/, starting with a handicap calculator. If you want a note when new states and guides land, the signup in the footer is the whole mailing list operation — occasional, and easy to leave.

Spotted an error?

Because listings come from OpenStreetMap, the best fix is often at the source: corrections made there flow into Par 5 on the next data refresh, and into every other project built on open map data too.