The Wolverine Golf Course

Brought high handicap customers here for a wonderful October day of golf. The course is very fair, wide fairways no blind shot many tee boxes and the greens are spectacular. The staff, from the bag drop “Scotty” pro shop, restaurant and 1/2 way house treated us like members. Sorry for playing slow we didn’t want it to end.

B-Team trying to get A-Team pricing. Wolverine design was excellent. Player did a great job. Very playable even from the tips but some good tough holes. Tee boxes and fairways were C quality. Greens were decent not amazing. Few ppl fix their divots let along ball marks. Service and staff were nice, but they’re about what you would expect from a mid-range course. All in all, it felt like a high quality muni or medium quality public, but the problem is their pricing is offensive for the quality. $175 for a round, let alone $18 per sleeve for Pro-Vs. So wrong given the quality. I would say the course is 4-stars thanks to the awesome design buttressing the conditions, and service was 3-star, but they wanted pretty much 5-star pricing.

Played Wolverine last Saturday. After reading about the course I was really looking forward to a great experience. When checking in and finding the cost was $160 I told myself “Wow, this place must be terrific.” What a galactic disappointment. The course was in horrible shape. Didn’t look like it had been maintained for weeks, except for a somewhat recent grass cutting of too-long grass which left large clumps of cut grass scattered about the fairways. And the fairways were peppered with divots some very large. The many sand traps looked like they hadn’t been touched for months. I read about beautiful white sand traps here, not so. These traps were like hitting off of packed dirt or concrete. Many greens had damaged areas that had not been addressed, ant mounds and lots of old and new ball marks that had not been repaired. We ended up a couple groups behind a foursome that was taking anywhere from 15-20 minutes on each green. Talking and pointing and talking more and analyzing every putt. No consideration for the people they were holding up. Towards the middle of the back nine there were five foursomes backing up. I felt like yelling ‘just putt the GD ball already.’ Rangers routinely came by but did nothing. I asked one about the slow play and he said it was backed up. Again, not so. Shortly afterwards the beverage cart attendee told us there was nobody in front of these fools for numerous holes. Overall, the Wolverine was an absolutely horrible golfing experience. Heck, even the cart paths on this course had potholes in them that needed repair. I can’t believe I paid so much to golf on such a rundown golf course. I play on beautiful well-maintained courses in the Grand Rapids area and pay ~ $40 for 18 with cart. Many with GPS in the golf carts which this course does not have (for a higher end golf course that was a surprise). Wolverine is in no way worth $160. I enjoy going north and have played some very nice courses up there but I’ll never come back to this place.