The 18-hole "Lion's Paw" course at the Big Cats Golf At Ocean Ridge Lion's Paw & Panther's Run Golf Courses facility in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina features 7,003 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 74.7 and it has a slope rating of 130. Designed by Willard C. Byrd, ASGCA, the Lion's Paw golf course opened in 1991.