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. Greg Overton manages the course as the Golf Professional.