Alpena Golf Club

I travel to Alpena twice a year to play golf with my brother(s). This year, we brought a friend who is a new golfer (an out-of-state friend). On the 4th of July, we chose an early tee time, directly behind a group of two other friends. The math behind this is that we have a two man scramble and a three-man scramble directly after. For context, we started the round of 18 playing as two separate, individual scrambles. Issue being, we are waiting for 5-10 minutes at every tee box for the group ahead of us. This is no issue for us. We had a great time and were playing with a fast pace. After 6 holes, a ranger named Dan approached us and told us, “you should know better than to be playing 5 a hole” to the members of our group. The ranger instructed us that there are board members who are calling the front desk to complain about us. We agreed with the Ranger and told him we understand and that we will split our group back up. On the next hole, the ranger continued to follow us and harass us, emphasizing the reason for splitting up, etc. We reiterated that we didn’t believe that we were in any way slowing down the pace (we weren’t). At that point, the ranger became defensive with us and told us that we could all “get thrown off the course if he wanted to go that route”. So we decided to leave, since this individual wanted to continue to harass us as we made our way through the round. When we asked the front desk for a refund simply for the back 9 holes, we were denied of a refund and were offered a “rain check”. We were sure to respectfully ask the front counter if anyone had called and that we were going to ask that they apologize for us. We were truly sorry if someone felt we had slowed down their plans on the fourth. Nobody had called. This course was, without a doubt, the most disappointing, disrespectful experience I’ve had in a long time. Golfing is one of the few things me and my brothers get to do for fun together, if only for a few rounds a year. Alpena golf course decided to make it their personal vendetta to take a situation where no one was being impacted and decided to ruin 5 people’s 4th of July. Period, point blank.

Driving range is always in great shape, beer is always cold, and the staff, well you won’t find any friendlier.

Beautiful yet challenging course, reasonable rates, tournaments available, as well as lots of amenities. One of my favorites.