I mapped every US golf course
Details
- External ID
- 49054010
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I mapped every US golf course
- Website domain
- golfcoursebrowser.com
- Launched
- July 26, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 223
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9713261648745519
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I got tired of Googling basic course info, so I made a free directory of every US courseGoogle filters for golf course results are terrible so I built a better way to browse courses using OSM as the backbone.... https://golfcoursebrowser.com/It's a work in progress and mostly US for now, but I want to expand to the rest of North America, the EU, and the rest of the world ASAP.It's free, no ads, no login, no bs. If you spot anything wrong (bad info, a missing course, wrong scorecard), you can flag it right on the course page. I actually read those and fix them.Still a lot of missing info, but I'm filling out more and more each day. The goal is the most complete, and current golf course directory in the world, verified and maintained by actual golfers. I think is attainable in the next few months. The base layer is OpenStreetMap, cross-checked against course websites and enriched with scorecards, USGA rating/slope, and public/private status. User corrections from golfers who know their home course have beaten every commercial data source we check against.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mapping of us golf courses
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a classic map directory aggregating OpenStreetMap data and presenting it using Leaflet/Mapbox with search and filter controls.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Maps golf course filters, GolfNow, Course homepages
Concerns raised: GolfNow market dominance/monopoly control of tee time advertising, Non-uniformity across course websites makes data collection difficult, Golf courses using too much land and fresh water, access limited to wealthy
Feature requests: Add pricing information or average price ranges for courses, Expand coverage to Europe and Germany, Expand coverage to Australia
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 45 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 46 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 264 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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