The 18-hole "Deer Run Championship" course at the Newport News Golf Club At Deer Run facility in Newport News, Virginia features 7,206 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 73.7 and it has a slope rating of 133 on Bermuda grass. Designed by Edmund B. Ault, ASGCA, the Deer Run Championship golf course opened in 1969.