Battle Creek Golf Club is a golf club in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma in the United States. It was designed by Bland Pittman. Battle Creek is currently the longest eighteen hole course in Oklahoma.
The par 72 layout features 7,237 yards from the championship tees and 5,472 yards from the ladies tees. Battle Creek is a links-style course with a course rating of 75.3 from the championship tees and 73.5 from the Mens tees, with more than 80 bunkers and 8 ponds strategically placed to capture that occasional errant tee shot.
Battle Creek has a slope rating of 130 on Bermuda grass; large bentgrass greens and oversize tee boxes remain in excellent condition through the approximately 36,000 annual rounds. The golf course is surrounded by the Battle Creek community with over 500 homesites as well as commercial property.
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