Quail Ridge Golf Club

Absolutely beautiful course with rolling hills, nicely maintained fairways and greens. Every hole is unique and rarely shares its borders with other holes as you make your loop. The clubhouse staff were friendly but severely understaffed. At the turn, the restaurant/bar was backed up and only one server was working. It made for a slow process to grab even a simple order of hot dogs and beverages to go.

We also had the course ranger or manager allow an unscheduled 4some ahead of us. This would be no problem but the course was already oversold with 8 minute tee time separation and slower players leading the way. No effort from the Ranger to expedite play as we literally didn't see any supervision on the course from there on. It was extremely slow play all day long.

We had played this course on the preceding Thursday following a tournament that morning. It was consistent with that experience. Very slow, minimal proactive course management and plan to wait on every shot as you make your way around.

It was exceptionally beautiful and challenging. Find a day with fewer golfers if you really want to maintain any rhythm.

Played this course on a Wednesday morning at 0900. Pace of play was painfully slow. Course was full of people that are not good at golf and this course is way to challenging for them. Probably wont’t go back. Price is way too high to play 9 holes in 2:30.

Love this place to beef up your fairways hit and greens in reg stats as the fairways and greens are pretty large. The 1st fairway is as big as the parking lot in the landing zone. Monster fairway. I like the amount of target golf holes vs. hit drive and go find it holes here on the front nine. I can't remember playing the back and what those are like but a good mix on the front for sure.
Tall grass is growing like crazy in this area and no exception here so some wayward tee sheets will be tough to find but I noticed they cut it down in 2 areas where it was going thru a split fairway or too close to rough to make things more playable. I commend the staff for that. I think par 5 3rd was one good example where if it wasn't cut it'd be a blind shot into the green.
I know the course is getting 250-300 plus players each day due to covid surge in rounds and it doesn't look like it condition wise. They have the divot bottles on the carts and on the par 3 tee boxes so while we waited for our gaggle of twosomes and singles to play the hole we'd empty those bottles. I didn't see too many divots in the rough/fairways from previous days so they are taking care of things in the heavy traffic for sure.

Quail Ridge is challenging, fun, interesting, beautiful and in great condition. There was some mixup about tee times, but I got to tee off early and joined up with another single ahead of me for a twosome. We played through two groups in front of us who were very courteous and had smooth sailing around this great course on a beautiful Michigan summer day. I will be back for sure!!

Pros: Course was in great shape. New table at check in allows social distancing. Everything very clean and sanitized.
Cons:: Very expensive, no masks worn by any staff members, no restrooms on course (even porta Johns have been removed, golf and beer prices are outrageous. Only 1 person working checkin and bar, long wait.

Beautiful greens nice cut fairways and very creative

Very friendly staff. Huge fairways and massive greens! Kept in great condition! Nothing bad to say! Also the new carts with GPS and Bluetooth speakers is a GREAT feature, first time I’ve seen it!

Enjoyed the lay/out of Quail Ridge except for a par 5 requiring a lay-up off the tee. Just never like short driving areas for par 5’s.
Greens were large and very quick. Enjoyed the challenge.

Pace of play was slow for a Sunday afternoon, all greens except the combined 9/18 were recently drilled and sanded. A bit bumpy, but the rest of the course is in great shape.

Course conditions were average at best. Greens were very tough and did not roll true

Course is definitely a 5 Star, Must play again, Challenging and Well designed course!!!
From the 1st hole the course layout made me stop and think before "gripping and ripping". Even the par 3s especially the 9th was a challenge just to cut a shot on the greens.
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Our pace if play was 3 hours on a Sunday for a twosome. Had a 4some on our heels most of the way. So even as a 4 some speed was good.
Hoped to have breakfast. But the grill wasnt staffed at 8am, nor was a cook a available at 1030 on the turn. Minor issue.
Ballmarks on greens were more of an issue. Beautiful greens with so many ball Mark's that werent repaired it was sad. Cannot blame the course for that. Practice area was sorely lacking of grass to hit from as it was full of divots. Overall this should be a 5 not a 4 course.