The 18-hole "Kern River" course at the Kern River Golf Course facility in Bakersfield, California features 6,458 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 70. The course rating is 70.7 and it has a slope rating of 120. Designed by William F. Bell, ASGCA/William P. Bell, ASGCA, the Kern River golf course opened in 1953.