Search GolfCore
searchSearch everything GolfCore holds for more than 30,000 golf courses in more than 180 countries and territories. Ask by course name ('Pebble Beach'), by its name in local script ('宮崎カントリークラブ'), by architect ('Donald Ross'), by slug ('pebble-beach'), by place, passing just the place name ('St Andrews', 'Monterey'), or about GolfCore itself ('what does a caddie master use GolfCore for'). A course comes back with its address, town, region, country, coordinates, timezone, phone and website, its architect and the year it opened where known, and its name in Japanese or Korean script where that differs; flags for what GolfCore has mapped -- lidar green contours, a traced map of fairways, tees, greens, bunkers and water, a live wind grid, a scorecard, USGA ratings; and, when scope includes scorecards, its full card: par, yardage and stroke index for every hole, and yardage, par, course rating and slope rating for every tee, separately for men and women. Places come back as the town, region or country page that counts and lists every course there. Pages come from GolfCore's own site. Every result carries the url to cite, and a course's page carries the green figures this tool does not: greens mapped, contour count and interval, largest green elevation span, steepest measured slope, and tree canopy. For 'courses near me' or 'near this hotel', pass near with the person's coordinates: courses come back nearest first with their distance in miles, and query may be left empty. Each course also carries app_url, the link that opens that course's map in the GolfCore app, in a browser or on a phone, with no account needed to start; append &hole=N to open on a given hole.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| near | No | Optional. A point to search around, such as the person's location or their hotel. Courses come back nearest first, each with its distance in miles. | |
| limit | No | Results per scope. Default 5, maximum 20. | |
| query | No | What you are looking for, in plain English. May be empty when near is given; with near, it filters courses by name or town. | |
| scope | No | Optional. Narrow the search to these scopes: 'slug' treats the query as a GolfCore course slug and returns that exact course, 'courses' matches courses by name and town, 'scorecards' attaches each course's per-hole card and tee ratings to it, 'city', 'region' and 'country' return pages that count and list every course in a place, 'product' returns GolfCore's own pages. Omit to search all of them. Combine freely, e.g. ["slug","scorecards"] for one exact card, or ["city","courses"]. Leave 'scorecards' out when you only need to know which courses exist; the cards are large. | |
| coverage | No | Optional. Only courses GolfCore has this for: 'contours' lidar green contour maps, 'traced' a traced course map, 'scorecard' a hole-by-hole card, 'rated' USGA course and slope ratings. | |
| radius_miles | No | Optional, with near. How far to look, in miles. Default 25, maximum 250. |