The hardest golf courses in Arkansas, by slope rating

Name: The hardest golf courses in Arkansas by slope rating
Creator: maps.golf

We ranked 15 Arkansas courses with a maps.golf guide using the numbers on their own scorecards. Big Sugar Golf Club is the hardest: a slope of 150 from the Black tees (course rating 76.9).

Updated November 5, 2026

#	Course	Location	Slope	Rating	Tees
1	Big Sugar Golf Club	Pea Ridge, AR	150	76.9	Black
2	Scotsdale Golf Course	Bella Vista, AR	141	73.6	Black
3	Cortez Golf Course	Hot Springs Village, AR	141	73.5	Black
4	The Course at Eagle Mountain	Batesville, AR	140	73.8	Black
5	DeSoto Golf Course	Hot Springs Village, AR	138	73.1	Black
6	Granada Golf Course	Hot Springs Village, AR	137	74.7	Black
7	Burns Park Golf Course	North Little Rock, AR	135	73.5	Black
8	Big Creek	Mountain Home, AR	134	75.8	Black
9	Thunder Bayou Golf Links	Blytheville, AR	134	74.6	Black
10	Brownstone Country Club & Resort	Marion, AR	131	73.3	Black
11	Sage Meadows Country Club	Jonesboro, AR	129	72.5	Black
12	Bella Vista Country Club Golf Course	Bella Vista, AR	127	73.0	Black
13	Pine Valley Golf Course	North Little Rock, AR	107	65.3	Tees
14	Hickory Creek	Jacksonville, AR	103	62.6	Blue
15	Coronado Golf Course	Hot Springs Village, AR	93	60.5	White

How we ranked them

Slope rating measures how much harder a course plays for a bogey golfer than for a scratch golfer; 113 is average and 155 is the maximum. Each course is ranked by the highest men's slope on its own scorecard, from whichever tees carry it. Ties go to the higher course rating.

The list covers courses with a free maps.golf guide whose scorecard we’ve published, and it updates on its own as new guides go live. Numbers are as printed on each course’s card; courses re-rate and re-tee, so check the course’s own scorecard before you play. Running one of these courses and see a wrong number? Tell us.

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