moreman05

The course was play empty and the person behind the counter indicated that was the new normal. What a shame!!!

Few courses can beat me like this one did. From the back tees, I was thoroughly whipped. The course was beautiful, had a great layout, but was hard. The fairways were deceptively narrow in landing areas, guarded by woods, tall grass, and significant sloping.

At times the course bordered on unfair, but never got there. This will test the integrity of your game and force you to hit shots you likely don't practice that often.

Go play it!

This is a must play when you are in Northern MI. The course layout is excellent and challenging - especially from the tips - but still fair. The conditions were great. We teed off at 4:40 and were done by 7:30.

Having played a few great courses lately, I was impressed that Deer Ridge held its own. Greens were fast and challenging, but receptive. Fairways were wide but still required proper position.

The only knock is the amount of blind shots on the course. It will take a few rounds to know where to hit it and to some degree what to use of the tee. The course is short, so driver is not required.

The course was a challenging set up despite wide fairways and plenty of distance markers to help find proper targets. The course was in great shape, had a good look to it - despite the surrounding area not being anything special, and played like a championship caliber course.

As a once-a-year visitor to the area, I have played a half dozen or so courses within half an hour of Morehead City, NC, and North River is definitely my favorite.

I enjoyed the course. Fairly tight with lots of heather grass. Used irons off most tees and still didn't hit more than 7 iron into a par-4. The par-3's are challenging.

Course was in decent shape, especially considering the amount of rain we've had over the past few weeks. The staff was less than pleasant, the starter really did not know what was going on at times, and we were told we needed to hurry because an outing was about to tee off.