I agree with Jim, but my numbers are a bit different. For some reason, I can recall earthmoving amounts, but I couldn't tell you yardages or course ratings for a lot of my courses.
Jim and I both came out of the Killian and Nugent office, so we may have some of the same tendencies. It was not unusual to move 100-150K dirt (not counting topsoil on and off) on a K and N project, and anything over 200K was unusual. It might have grown under Nugent when Jim worked there, or maybe because Jim worked there
As Jim says, it varies wildly, with flat sites usually needing 400-500K just to make the drainage work. Of course, if Tommy N were still here, he would tell you that I over grade and install too many catch basins,
but there is relationship there - I usually try to balance the cost of the two and it is the cheapest, most natural way sometimes. If I didn't add basins, one side of the fw would have to be artifically high.
My flattest sites were Opryland, Wild Wing, Sand Creek Station, all of which required in that range. In Lake Jackson, I was flat, but only moved about 220K. On low budget courses in Lawrence, KS and Glen Rose and Odessa, TX, I moved about 185K, but actually there are some areas I wish drained better. Much of that earthmoving is really reshaping in the fw to create 3% pitch for drainage, so its not as expensive as hauling out of lakes or from one fw to another.
On mildly rolling sites, I can get by on that 185K easily, and never more than 225K, and my courses in that range include all my MN courses, K State, Cowboys, and most of my other ones around DFW. Brookstone in Atlanta was about that and I recall Centennial (now gone) was built with 108,000 CY of cut and fill.
I suspect that if I ever did a course where there were mounds all down the fw, it would run into the 600-700K range. Anything more than that would require a special situation - like Faz sinking Shadow Creek a mile into the ground. I actually believe that many of my fellow gca's move that much without really having to. At least, on big jobs, we go back and closely engineer raising of fw to the lowest possible requirement for drainage. At Wild Wing, for instance, had I raised the fw another foot "just to be safe" or because I wasn't really grading it out carefully, I would have moved a lot more earth. I used those savings for more bunkers and other "fru fru".
Every acre raised a foot translates to 1600 CY, so raising 100 acres an unnecessary foot adds 160K of earthmoving at about $200K......Its those big areas that add up. Raising a green or tee another foot really doesn't add to the fill totals that much in most cases, unless you are already battling a downslope. I call it "adding to the top contours" whereas adding to the bottom contours (i.e. the fw fills) adds up quicker.