The Mount Ellen course has been dramatically shaped by the last ice age and is laid out over two drumlins, namely elongated, large mounds of material deposited under the ice sheet, which covered Scotland about 200,000 years ago. This enabled the course architects to create a mixture of demanding shots and aesthetically pleasing holes. The drive from the third tee illustrates this perfectly.
| HOLE |
NAME OF HOLE |
WHITE | Par | Gents | Ladies | ||||
| Dist | Par | SI | Dist | Par | |||||
| 1 | Griffin | 417 | 4 | 407 | 4 | 9 | 373 | 4 | |
| 2 | Lochend | 324 | 4 | 310 | 4 | 3 | 298 | 4 | |
| 3 | Cloverhill | 273 | 4 | 235 | 4 | 17 | 222 | 4 | |
| 4 | Slakiewood | 283 | 4 | 273 | 4 | 13 | 240 | 4 | |
| 5 | Birkenshaw | 321 | 4 | 307 | 4 | 5 | 318 | 4 | |
| 6 | Holms Farm | 312 | 4 | 309 | 4 | 11 | 304 | 4 | |
| 7 | Glaudhall | 436 | 4 | 331 | 4 | 1 | 309 | 4 | |
| 8 | Woodneuk | 188 | 3 | 163 | 3 | 7 | 150 | 3 | |
| 9 | Blackening Mill | 263 | 4 | 257 | 4 | 15 | 235 | 4 | |
| Out | 2817 | 35 | 2592 | 35 | 2449 | 356 | |||
| 10 | Bedlay | 155 | 3 | 144 | 3 | 10 | 143 | 3 | |
| 11 | Bothlyn Burn | 159 | 3 | 139 | 3 | 16 | 129 | 3 | |
| 12 | Leckethill | 232 | 3 | 228 | 3 | 4 | 232 | 4 | |
| 13 | Croftfoot | 330 | 4 | 304 | 4 | 8 | 288 | 4 | |
| 14 | Shankramuir | 296 | 4 | 284 | 4 | 14 | 282 | 4 | |
| 15 | Avenuehead | 283 | 4 | 277 | 4 | 18 | 217 | 3 | |
| 16 | Drumcavel | 406 | 4 | 408 | 4 | 2 | 403 | 5 | |
| 17 | Johnston | 351 | 4 | 350 | 4 | 12 | 345 | 4 | |
| 18 | Auldyards | 307 | 4 | 389 | 4 | 8 | 375 | 4 | |
| In | 2609 | 33 | 2523 | 33 | 2414 | 34 | |||
| Out | 2817 | 35 | 2592 | 35 | 2449 | 35 | |||
| Total | 5426 | 68 | 5115 | 68 | 4863 | 69 | |||