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Lake Royale is a private lakefront community in Franklin County, about 35 miles north of Raleigh, where the Piedmont begins its gradual softening toward the coastal plain. The land here is gently rolling hardwood country — oaks, pines, and the occasional creek bottom — and the course winds through that residential setting with the intimacy you'd expect from a club built to serve its surrounding community rather than attract a destination crowd.
River Golf Club at Lake Royale plays as the kind of member-focused layout where local knowledge pays off. Courses in this part of North Carolina tend to reward shot-making over raw power, with tree-lined corridors and varying terrain providing the primary defense. The Franklin County area doesn't carry the golf prestige of the Pinehurst sandhills to the southwest, but it offers a quieter, unpretentious version of the game that has its own appeal.
For residents and their guests, this is home turf in the truest sense — a course where regulars know every bounce, every shade of break, and which holes the wind turns into something entirely different come afternoon.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Tees · men | 6,252 | 70.3 | 133 | 72 |
| White Tees · men | 5,972 | 69.1 | 127 | 72 |
| Gold Tees · men | 5,269 | 66.3 | 109 | 72 |
| Gold Tees · women | 5,269 | 71 | 128 | 72 |
| Red Tees · men | 4,367 | 62.8 | 102 | 72 |
| Red Tees · women | 4,367 | 66 | 107 | 72 |
| Pink Tees · women | 4,167 | 64.7 | 103 | 72 |
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