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Heron Golf Course (The Villages)

Every green at Heron in The Villages, Florida traced contour by contour, with fall lines, daily pins, and live wind in the GolfCore app.

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1261 Sunset Pointe Boulevard, The Villages, FL, 32162

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Course website & booking information Call +1-800-346-4556; +1-352-205-7427 Get directions
Heron 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.
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10Greens Mapped 129Elevation Contours 8.8%Steepest Slope 9Holes 28Par 6Rated Tees
Green contour map of Heron in The Villages, Florida — 129 elevation contours at a 3-inch interval with fall-line arrows, traced from 1-meter lidar
One of 10 mapped greens at Heron, 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

LocationThe Villages, Florida, United States
Address1261 Sunset Pointe Boulevard, The Villages, FL, 32162
Phone+1-800-346-4556; +1-352-205-7427
Websitegolfthevillages.com
Holes9
Par28
Tees on the card6, 6 USGA-rated
Greens mapped10
Elevation contours129
Contour interval3-inch
Largest green elevation span3.9 ft
Steepest measured slope8.8%
Course mapTraced hole by hole
Wind modelingLive wind grid, 16 directions
Tree canopy1-meter canopy height model
Course data updated2026-09-28

The card

1,468 yds · Par 28 · Rating 27.6 · Slope 86

Hole 123456789 Out
Par 333433333 28
Yards 146181141273145142133202142 1,505
Hole Par Yards
1 3 146
2 3 181
3 3 141
4 4 273
5 3 145
6 3 142
7 3 133
8 3 202
9 3 142
Out 28 1,505

Course rating and slope

TeeYardsParRating / Slope
Black 1,468 28 27.6 / 86 28.4 / 87 (W)
Gold 1,282 28 26.9 / 81 27.9 / 85 (W)
Green 1,068 28 26.1 / 79 27.1 / 81 (W)

Hole data is what GolfCore holds for the course's layout. Clubs correct their own data in the app.

What GolfCore has for Heron

GolfCore's library covers Heron Golf Course (The Villages) green by green: 10 putting surfaces traced with 129 elevation contours from USGS 3DEP 1-meter lidar. The steepest measured slope on these greens tilts at 8.8 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. Heron Golf Course (The Villages) is one of more than fourteen 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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Approximate straight-line distances from Heron Golf Course (The Villages). Driving distances and travel times will vary.

Staff at Heron 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.

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