brianc316

Every year for the past 5 years myself and 11 friends get together for an annual golf trip. This year we decided to go to Garland Golf Resort! We got a sweet stay and play package which included 4 rounds of golf, 2 breakfast buffet vouchers, free range balls and 2 night stay in their cabins. Kelly Corbin helped us with our package and she did a great job!

Pros:
- All 4 courses are from 1 pro shop. This allows you to stay at your cabin and walk over to the tee box. No driving!
- Great breakfast buffet!
- Very nice cabins, lots of fun if you have a group of friends in neighboring cabins.
- Great practice facility
- Complete resort with lots of ammenities

Cons:
- We did have an issue with slow play on our Saturday round where it was running past 5 1/2 hours through 15 holes. I can't complain too much on this issue because as soon as we brought our issue up to management they were on it and fixed it. We even had a chance to speak to the President of Garland and he was absolutely wonderful in addressing our issues. We realized that they do care about golfers/customers and if we have any problems that they are going to do what they can to make it better and make us want to come back.
- During evening dinner, they looked to be a bit understaffed so service was a bit slow.
- Not all cabins had microwaves
- NO GOLF CHANNEL ON THE TV!

Overall, we had an excellent time. Courses were in great shape, greens rolled excellent. Lot's of blind shots, short par 4s/5s that force you to have to make a strategy shot. Can't just smoke a drive and think that you are going to be siting pretty. Everything we excepted with playing up north courses. If you book with Garland, ask for Kelly Corbin she provided us with excellent service and follow up.

We were looking forward to playing this course since it has been quite some time. We had our tee time for 12.40pm and when we arrived at 12noon we were notified that they are running behind on play and we won't be off till about 1.10pm. Well now, let's just get rid of tee times all together if we don't manage properly. There were no carts for us either till about 5 mins till our new tee time and then we were told to 'get in line' on tee box 1....lol are you kidding me? How do you mismanage tee times and not enforce pace of play? Ridiculous.

However, after we discussed everything with the people in charge they discounted our round and we played the course. Excellent course and in very good shape. Despite our issue, I would come back and play it again. We had lot's of fun and once we finished the front 9 the pace of play sped up a bit.

Had a chance to play this course in an outing I was invited to. I got there and hit the range and putting green. The putting green was large and the driving range was very nice. What a great course! Very nice layout makes it challenging and you have to position shots to get into good scoring chances. Also the separation of the holes makes it as if you are really in the moment of that hole. Greens were in perfect shape and rolled nicely. Did get into some green side bunkers and had no problem, well manicured. We enjoyed our time playing, all staff were nice.

Was invited to play by a member of the club. What an excellent course! 3 - nine holes to choose from. Greens were fast and in great shape, fairways were perfect! Staff was friendly as well, has everything you would expect for a country club! We were only able to get in 9 holes due to rain, what a fun day overall! Top Notch!

My buddies and I got a 4th of July deal for $25 included 18 holes, cart and a hot dog at the turn. Awesome...because I am cheap! We got a bucket of balls as well for $5 and hit the range which was in great shape. Beautiful thing was they had everything separate, a range, a putting green and a chip/sand green. All were in excellent shape.

Typically the courses in Monroe are flat, but this one had some nice fairways to make it more of a strategic shot off the tee. The one thing I enjoyed about the fairways was the ability to drive through the ball and take a nice divot, usually with some courses in the area with the land being hard you can't really do that. Tee boxes were a bit hard, but not too bad.

Greens rolled excellent and were in really great shape, very true puts. Bunkers were A+ on point with great sand, raked and perfectly edged.

Overall my friends and I really enjoyed the course and we will end up playing it again. The homes on the course are beautiful, grass was green and well maintained which makes the course look even better. Staff and amenities were great as well. Check them out!

Buddy and I went and played Willow. I called in and set a tee time for 2:40pm. We get to the course and we check in at about 2:25pm, we are told we are behind the 'two guys' right there. We load our cart and we notice the 'two guys' still on the putting green and its 2:35. 2:40pm rolls around and they are still on the green, go to the first tee and there are people there! What's the point of tee times!? I would recommend having a ranger picking up the pace of play or have people tee off on 1 and 10 instead of everyone going off 1 tee.

Pros:
- Green are good
- Fairways are on point, very nice
- Has that 'up north' feel with the woods and some hidden shots

Cons:
- Pace of play
- Everyone has to tee off #1 hole
- Bunkers had rocks in them...YES ROCKS!! Geezz! Why???

Overall I would play again, maybe different time of day. Fun little course

What a great course! My buddies and I were up for a stay and play package at Beaver Creek and this was one of the courses we selected to play.

Pros:
- Very true greens and in amazing shape!
- Many risk/reward shots
- Fairways are in excellent shape
- Sand bunkers are raked and in great condition
- Very good breakfast sandwiches

Cons:
- There are no displays of the hole layouts on the tee boxes and scorecards. Makes the course very difficult because you don't know what lies ahead especially with the rolling hills and valleys. As caution you may find yourself laying up and losing an opportunity.

My friends and I really enjoyed playing here and we will for sure play again! Now that we have played it once we can play more with accuracy.

My friends and I decided to get a round in Sunday late morning. It was a perfect day and it was my first time playing here so I was excited, my friends however have played before at this course.

My first experience was less than par. Once we came in to check in we must have waited at least 15 minutes before someone showed up to check in our tee time. When he did show up, he seemed frustrated which then translated to him being a bit rude with us. Once we checked in we were told that we had to go get our own carts from the gated barn area. WHAT?!?! Do they only staff one person on Sundays? After about 25 mins we finally get our round started, luckily we were there way before our tee time.

The course was pretty fun to play. I love the blind shots, its very strategic. Greens are in very good shape! I really enjoyed that. We had no hold up until we finished our first 9 holes. At the turn we walked into the club house where we must have waited another 15 minutes!!! Only one person staffed, a line of people at the counter and we had to wait to get a hot dog because the only one person staffed was busy checking people in for there tee times. Hire two people for weekend golf or have hot dogs ready!

We got on with our second nine and we were making good pace until we ran into a hold up around hole 7. I saw a lot of single golfers which should not be allowed on the weekends, should be paired up to keep pace. The single guy in front of us must have been hitting 3-4 balls each shot! And no ranger to help keep pace on the course.

Very disappointing for my first time golfing here! There were a lot of things that seem to be mismanaged. But, I would come again to see if my experience is different. Would give it a second chance and the cost wasn't too bad for the course.

My friends and I decided to go for a pleasant, relaxing round of golf on a beautiful Saturday morning. We got there early to get some practice in before our tee time.

Walking into the club house we were excited to find they had free coffee and donuts....plus! However, we didn't know that would be our only excitement about food. When we made the turn, we find out that there was not hot dogs or much to purchase.

Since we had about 15-20 mins before our tee time, we wanted to go putt for a bit while we waited on one of our friends. The whole time we were putting, we noticed two foursomes on #1 tee just waiting. We noticed no-one was in front of them so we were baffled why they weren't teeing off and getting going. Tee was getting backed up. Next thing we hear is over the loud speaker, our group was being called to #1 to tee off.....WHHHHAT!?!?! We still had 6 mins till our tee time, the groups on the tee box could have teed off! Instead we were pressured to go tee off on #1 before our tee time causing now the tee box to be backed up to 3 foursomes, very unpleasant!!!!!

We were also pressured to go to #10 tee...can I use the bathroom at least?!?! We get to the 10th tee and the foursome that was behind us on the front were waiting on the 10th tee.

Course was in decent shape, grounds were wet from some rain in prior days. Especially in some of the valleys on a few holes where our balls got plugged and we couldn't find them. It would be nice to have some yardage to water hazards on some holes where the creek cuts across. Tee boxes were a bit rough and was difficult to find a flat spot for stance.

In conclusion, the course wasn't bad, my friends had a fun time, enjoyed some cigars and the round. Cigars made everything better and I forgot about them not having hot dogs at the turn.

My friend and I bought a hot deal offline for $16 each for 18 and a cart on a Tuesday late morning. We had a friend who ended up joining us and paid full price at $32 which is still not bad.

Course was in excellent shape! There was no one on the course so pace of play was excellent. Fairways were cut nice and in great shape.

Pros: Course was green, fairways were cut fantastic and grown in nice. Greens were in awesome shape! Course layout was nice with tree lined fairways and some challenging holes such as #11

Cons: Greens were tough to read, seemed like every putt was straight even if there was a break. My friends said the same. Were not very true greens, could use some rolling. No beverage cart, but could be because it was a Tuesday late morning and also there is a lack in the off course amenities mainly because it is a metropark and did not expect a full blown bar or after round hangout like other courses.

Overall: Excellent course and will play again and also recommend to others. Very fun course to play.

We had coupons for buy one get one free round so me and three friends drove an hour to get to the course and take advantage of our coupons. When we pulled up the course looked amazing and the huge club house was beautiful on the exterior. Course is in fantastic shape, very open layout and lack of trees. But, that is expected in this area of Michigan. Also, looks like the drought we had didn't affect the course conditions.

Pros: FAST and TRUE greens, tight fairways, good sand in bunkers, excellent practice faciility

Cons: Pins way too close to fringe!! Greens surface is small for how fast the greens are, but depends on what you like. Couple holes can be shooting galleries for how close the tee boxes are. Rough is very thick!

Overall, great course, challenging greens, fun to play and me and my friends will be back for sure!

We played twilight and paid $21 with a cart, what was awesome was the rangers were so polite and said that we can play until 9/915. Pretty much get in as many holes as you can before sun down which was awesome! Also we had the first tee time behind the leagues so slow play was expected, many two somes, foursomes and walkers but the rangers told us if we get to far behind we can jump over to the back 9 and play. They did their best to accommodate and make us happy! A+ in my book. Only thing the rough was a few of the holes had ground under repair not sure if a pipe broke or what but overall great course for the cost.

Course was in excellent shape! We got a good deal off Golfnow and we were very impressed with the course conditions, lay out and strategic playing. Check it out! Fun play!

Pros:
Course is in great shape, greens are fast! I would recommend you checking out this course. Fairways are in excellent shape! Overall great Arthur Hills Design and 3 9 hole courses makes it different

Cons:
Wish there was visual hole layouts on the scorecard or at tee boxes so we are aware where bunkers lay. Can on occasion hit slow play depending on the 27 hole rotation.

Course is fun to play because it does have some strategic holes and can be challenging especially on the blue course. I have been playing for many years here and I have never seen greens in such bad shape. Many cracks, dirt/brown spots, be prepared to either stick the pin within a couple inches or 3/4 putt. No chance in reading your putts. Still charge the same $$ as well with is a frustration.

Me and friends rented out the condos at Shanty Creek for a weekend getaway and we played the Hawks Eye on Saturday and the course was amazing from the greens, to the fairways, rough and the scenery. Bit challenging with some hidden shots but overall what a fun course to play!!! Definitely put it on your list for up north golf!