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I enjoyed playing this course. Fairly straight holes with very little trouble to be found. Just enough hills and trees to make it interesting. Good value on a Golfnow hot deal.

This course has three separate nine-hole venues. Their normal course is known as the White followed by the Blue. The Gold is an extra nine holes added later. The Gold is a short and not very interesting venue. Apparently, the new policy is that all Golfnow customers must start on the Gold and then move to one of the other venues. In other words, it seems that Golfnow customers are being punished.

The course was in remarkably good shape considering that we had storms (including a tornado) go through the area the day before. Greens were true and fast. Some standing water in a few fairways but it never came into play. Course is long and I am not a big hitter so I chose to play the gold tees. If you are like me, be prepared to hit a lot of long irons and fairway woods.

We have had a bit of a drought here. This course obviously has no irrigation. The fairways were brown and dried out so badly that your cart kicked up dust driving across them! The greens were so hard that nothing held. You could hit a 9-iron to the front of the green and it would roll off the back! The staff member that checked me in was very pleasant but did seem a bit confused. She sent me off the 10th for no apparent reason. All in all, I do not think I'll be going back even at the Golfnow prices!

Diamond Springs is my favorite course in West Michigan! It is always well maintained and provides just enough challenge to test my moderate skills. I love to play there but was very disappointed in my 7/19/2015 round through no fault of the management. I was alone and quickly caught up to a slow-playing threesome. These "gentlemen" took it upon themselves to determine that I had no hope of playing through the smaller groups in front of them and, therefore, they would not let me play through! I watched them tee off of every tee from number 3 through number 14! Not only were they ignorant in their refusal to let me play through, but they compounded their insolence by taking second and third shots whenever they bungled their first shot (which was often)! I finally had enough when each of them hit into the ravine on #14 and proceeded to do a complete second round of shots. Much to their consternation, I cursed them and drove to the fifteenth tee were I paired up with a lovely couple that, contrary to what the trailing oafs had said, immediately invited me to join them. The clubhouse had kindly sent the ranger out to number 6 when I complained, but nothing happened to alleviate the problem. I know there is not much you can do to alleviate such a problem, but perhaps everywhere that you post the admonition to "let faster players through," you could add the words "regardless of conditions ahead of you."