Course reviews
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Ronald Dugdale
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October 25, 2021
Had the chance to play, spotter and plan to join the league next season. Beautiful and challenging course with elevation and water experiences. S/o to the BasketGills!! Have fun watching Disc FLy!!
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Kevin Derrick
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May 3, 2021
Simply an incredible course. I've played 200+ courses across 5 countries and BlueGill stands firmly in the top handful. The property is gorgeous, with incredible elevation changes for Southern Michigan. The layout has all the variety you can ask for. Bomber holes and short, technical lines. Long technical holes. Water carries. Uphill, downhill. Elevated baskets and death putt greens. This is a course where I will use almost every shot in my arsenal and almost every disc in my bag. Incredible property. Incredible layout. Incredible course.
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Charles McGovern
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April 15, 2021
Incredible course. Thoughtfully designed and very challenging. If you have the opportunity to play here, jump on it!
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Justin Tils
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April 6, 2021
Got lucky to play this one! Was on a trip with buddies to Flip, one of them knew the right person and we got permission to play B.G. WOW...still can not believe what a hidden gem this is.
+1 votes
Darian Ott
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September 29, 2020
Outstanding course, challenging in several ways! Great for a scenic course as well. This course should be #1 in MI in my opinion. Joe (Owner) is very nice, me and a friend had thrown in to the water on a hole and he caught up to us a few holes later to return the ones we had just dunked. Very well maintained.
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Matthew Wayne Crawford
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December 8, 2019
Amazingly beautiful course very well maintained absolutely a paradise for DG
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Jesse Qualls
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September 18, 2019
Wow! Got the opportunity to play to play this beautiful gem and can't Express how thankful I am. This is Michigan's best course and would be by the ratings if it were open to the public. Beautiful property, beautiful layout, and the baskets... prefect. Even the putting sanctuary is a masterpiece. Bucket list golfing. Hit the basket on hole 11 two inches low, that was a nice bonus. Don't miss a chance to play here. Thanks Joe for the opportunity and life lasting experience.
+1 votes
Kaycee Chappell
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July 8, 2019
Definitely the top course you could play in Michigan. There is so much thought put into the design and so much care and time that has gone in to this course and it shows. Joe was an awesome host. Take the time to get in contact with him and schedule a round out there. It is well worth it.
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Daniel Kennedy
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July 11, 2018
From the courses I played in Michigan I would say this is the best. All types of shots and everything you could want out of a course. A but tougher than flip city but offers more in other avenues.
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Aaron Kirsch
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September 30, 2017
I had been traveling for work for the past 18 years,.. and I have made it a point to play this incredible and challenging game in just about every state in the nation.. there are stand outs for sure and Blue Gill is one of them for sure, a destination and local Jewel of a course. I am very happy to have settled in Grand Rapids and can only wish to play this course more often next season.... elevation, water, risky rewards, long shots and technical shorts,... Shooting even here does not feel too bad. bring your wallet!
+1 votes
Johnny Sias
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June 24, 2017
Loved the course, It has everything. A lot of possible birdies. That can be bogies just as easy. A fun course.
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Eric "Downtown" Brown
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June 15, 2017
Love BlueGill and Michigan disc golf. This course is one of the best in the Midwest. Joe Gill is a wonderful host, and you can see his labor of love on every hole. I played league night with a couple of locals, highly encourage a tour guide for navigation and spotter detail. Teepads are fresh and professionally done. Many holes (24 total) have long or short pads. The greens are some of the toughest conditions I have played on, (AKA death putts). Course is off the grid and on private property, mu ...
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John Clark
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April 29, 2017
Love this course. Long tees are very tough and shorts for league helped me to keep up with my wonderful partners. Great idea, thank you for all your work Joe... and I have oiled my chain.
+1 votes
Marc Nelesen
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September 2, 2016
An amazing course that has it all! I must hand it to Joe Gill for his design, maintenance, and his hospitality. This course requires finesse, good putting, and an arm on several holes. If you play here, be sure to thank the host, respect the course, and drop a few bucks in his donation box. The guy puts loads of time and energy into the course and deserves immense respect and credit for allowing people on his beautiful land.
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Austin Velasquez
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August 24, 2016
Best course me or my friends have played yet. Joe does a great job maintaining the course. If you havent been out to Blue Gill, Talk to Joe! Its without a doubt one of the best around, hands down. Thank you to Joe for letting me and my friends come out all the time!
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Cody Taplin
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August 22, 2016
Joe Gill has made the most amazing disc golf course you could ask for. Long open 700+ ft holes. It has 300 ft highly wooded holes. It has water holes. It has everything you could want in a disc golf course, and more.
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Ryan Klootwyk
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March 31, 2016
Basically everything you can look for in a disc golf course is here. Very tough shots, A lot of holes you have never experienced before are here
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Brian Rowe
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March 16, 2016
What an amazing experience it was to play this course with the creator, Joe Bluegill. The layout is everything you could ever want out out of a disc golf course. Tons of elevation, water, obs, and an overall great mixture of shots. The putting greens are exceptionally tough, which really forces you to play smart golf. There are a ton of birdie opportunities, but plenty of holes where you can easily give those strokes back. It is amazing what Joe was able to accomplish with this course and I am looking for any excuse to make a trip back out that way.
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Gary Silvers
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February 8, 2016
One of the top courses I have personally played. Will always choose to play this course when available!
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Dan Chando
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March 16, 2016
The BlueGill course is one of those perfect courses where you really would have to try and find something wrong with it, but it's almost impossible to do so. The course itself was in pristine condition when played for the Wednesday league. Nicely mowed fairways, excellent tee pads, hole markers with distances, and baskets that are in great condition. It has an excellent mix of every type of hole and shot you can imagine; long open bombers, tight tunnel shots, shots over waters, hyzer shots, an ...
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Ronald Elkins
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July 22, 2015
what a course my buddy and i played for the first time today and it was awesome little out of our skill range but we had a great time and ran into some great people this is where the worlds should be at
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Ivan Larsen
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July 1, 2015
Amazing. This course has it all, and it's beautiful. Definitely my new favorite!
+2 votes
Jon Camp
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June 15, 2015
Absolutely sick!!! The toughest course i have ever played anywhere, most unique, beautiful scenery, very tight lines, uses every bit of skill in the game on a single course. Large hills can make for very tough putting, and a stretch of water holes that will keep you on your game. No worries of ever losing a disc everything is always returned (thanks mr. gill). A must play for any competing disc golfer and advanced open players will be in love. Just love this unique place, the tee signs with the ...
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+1 votes
Jeff "Hep-A-Ler" Hepler
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May 5, 2015
What an amazing gem! Joe Gill has created and maintained one of the most beautiful and challenging courses that I have been priveliged to play! Elevation, water, heavy woods, and challenging pin placements force you to have a full bag of shots on hand to shoot even or better. I can't wait to play again!
+1 votes
Ian R
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August 11, 2014
What a great course, the course was full of challenging shots both long and short the putt down the side of the hill was very cool. Thank you Joe for letting Alan and I come out and a special thanks to Randy for showing us the course. If you come across an innova wolf in your pond I'd love to get it back. (: Thanks again!!!
+1 votes
Ken B
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July 31, 2014
Great course! Lots of hills, some water, and great hole diversity make this a gem of a course! The basket placement is near perfect, with alot of risk-reward shots.You will have to use every shot in your bag and hit alleys with pinpoint accuracy to score well here. Last time I visited Joe had 6 tees cemented in and I was told 8 more at least were going in before summers end. If you are lucky enough to play here, be sure to thank Joe for his wonderful upkeep and amazing course! Thanks Joe!
+2 votes
Brad Brundage
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July 8, 2014
Definitely one of the top 3 courses I've played. Everything about it is amazing!
+2 votes
Chad Cole
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April 3, 2015
I'm not sure it's even possible to offer anything as perfect as Joe's course. It destroyed me, but was worth every extra last second of it. If you can play well here, there's absolutely no place else in Michigan that will give you troubles. BlueGill makes Flip City seem easy. If you ever get the chance to play it, I'd highly suggest you jump at that chance. I will definitely sign up for another tournament there just to play it.
+1 votes
Andrew McBride
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April 16, 2014
I love this course first time playing it today and it has such beautiful sceanery and the course has a bunch of different technical shots. If you make a mistake and get off the fairways on some holes good luck making par but other than that i loved the course and defeintly recommend it to any disc golfer to try to get out there and play it if you get permission.
+3 votes
Ben Goodrow
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September 18, 2013
Let's start off this by giving Joe credit, he does a great job of keeping the course clean and well groomed. The course has a great mix of technical holes, water holes, as well as long open holes testing all areas of a golfers game. There are a few signiture holes including hole 3 which is a short shot down a tunnel of pines, hole 9 which has you throw off of a cliff just to the inside of a pond, and many other memorable holes. If you get the chance to play this course, take it.
+1 votes
Nate Best
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March 11, 2014
Absolutely amazing course that challenges every aspect of a golfers skill set. Great scenery, variety of obstacles including water, elevation, tight lines, and distance. By far one of my favorite courses.
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Nick Gill
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August 22, 2013
There is every shot. Fair for a righty and lefty. Also it is a rewarding course for the person that throws thee best shot and cannot rely on a lucky break here and there. Awesome!!!
+2 votes
Chad Shine
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October 15, 2021
Best course I've ever played truly a beautiful place and by far the most challenging course around
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Redmon "aces" D
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February 3, 2021
No course that's private with less baskets than holes should be called an a+ it's bull that the rating system can be high jacked like that only players how already are pre approved to play can even give a rating it's bs and an admin should fix this loophole
+4 votes
Joshua Barnett
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July 24, 2013
fun, challenging, clean, beautiful, elevation, technical, water, american flag on top of pin. amazing.
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Dan Sinkey
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July 22, 2013
Everything I've heard about the course is totally true it's amazing !! The owner is one of the finest of people . He would probably open it to public but he wants to have a life beyond running a discgolf course plus the minimal traffic is why the place is so pristine !
+1 votes
Jason Ponchahar
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June 27, 2015
Just a great course! I could go on and on with superlatives, but I will just say it was great I was able to play this course.
+3 votes
Skyler Stoker
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January 6, 2014
It's bluegill if you know you know if you don't you should.
+1 votes
christopher rogalewski
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May 30, 2013
wow best course ive ever played.....now that's playing disc golf....
+3 votes
Nick Kohn
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May 1, 2013
Wow, this course is just awesome. i cant think of anything negative. this is probably the best course in Michigan
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Travis tullis
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April 15, 2013
This is by far one of my favorite course and is also one of the best I have ever played with tons of natural beauty. Huge thank you to Joe gill for sharing his beautiful course with us.
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Brian Fitz
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December 20, 2016
Great course nestled in the beautiful rolling hills of west Michigan. This 24 basket course with alternate pin locations, challenges every skill level and forces you to pull all your best shots out of your bag. BlueGills offers elevation change, hyzer/an hyzer, a few water hazards, plenty of birdie opportunities, and a couple Ace runs. New Concrete tee pads.
+2 votes
David VanLente---Big D
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September 17, 2012
beautiful course that challenges EVERY shot in your bag! from wide open to tight and narrow. Joe is an awesome host! Definitely the best course in the state...maybe nation! Thanks Joe!!
+1 votes
Brian Basinski
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September 5, 2012
I've played over 30 different courses in 6 different states and this hands down is my favorite yet.
+3 votes
Shaun Albrecht
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June 14, 2012
i have never been as happily challenged by a course as i am every time i throw here.
+1 votes
Dave Davies
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June 13, 2012
Awesome land, awesome layout, and fantastic owner. Thanks for giving us a tour of the holes this morning, we really appreciated it. Will definitely be back!!
+3 votes
Mike Durco
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May 28, 2012
Amazing course! So much fun and challenge on every hole. 24 holes of awesome disc golf.
+1 votes
Marty McKibbin
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January 28, 2012
My first time to Bluegill and it left me wanting more of it !! Beautiful land great layout , well maintained and just plain SWEET! I The course tests every shot in your bag and some you might not know you have. Great course !!
+5 votes
Jared Dow
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December 27, 2011
As Mark's review states - every mistake is punished...keep your cool or you'll be punished again and again...and once more for good measure. Bluegill has a lot of memorable holes that are not only awesome, but test your skill. Flip has some nice scenery but Bluegills is just as nice, especially when you hit the garden and water holes. Flip is a great course but comparing Bluegill to Flip is like comparing Cedar Point to Candyland. The pin placement is spectacular and almost nerve racking. O ...
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+2 votes
Bryce Balcer
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November 8, 2011
This course is awesome. It will test your ability to perform every shot possible in a single round. It has a ton of elevation, water, deep woods, pine and open holes.
+1 votes
Jim Fries
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October 27, 2022
Bluegill is the sweetist course I have stepped feet on. The varity of holes keeps u on your toes. All of the elevation change is amazing and challenging. When it comes to the ponds u better b on top of your game or you will b wet, and I think that is what makes it better than flip.
+2 votes
Matt Blocksma
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September 8, 2011
absolutely beautiful. to think i grew up 10 minutes from there and its def one of the best courses ive ever played. thanks for the invite and thanks for having such a gorgeous course in michigan.
+6 votes
Andy Bawol
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September 6, 2011
I was afford the opportunity to play BlueGill on Labor Day after the long weekend in Ludington. After calling Joe and getting permission he told us he wouldn't be able to show us around and we may get lost. Once we arrived he drove up on his cart and showed us around anyway. Joe Gill is nothing short of an excellent host.
The only word I can use to describe this course is "phenomenal". Joe takes great care in maintaining his property, and what a plot of land it is. While Joe was showing us h ...
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+7 votes
David Hedstrom
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June 1, 2011
Bluegill is a true labor of love and is one of the best courses in the country let alone the state. Bluegill has every type of shot/ hole you could possibly desire. Uphill and downhill bombs, shots over water, through rows of pines, big 600 and 700ft open bombs. OB ropes defining fairways. Bluegill is disc golf heaven. If you ever get a chance to play here make sure you respect the property and Joe, he has spent a lot of time and $ making the course what it is today.
+3 votes
Matt Elgersma - iDisc for VEDS
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May 5, 2011
this is one of my favorite courses, it is very technical and if you don't hit the gap your screwed, if you want to get better at disc golf this is the place to be, Blue Gill provides the most variety of shots I have ever seen, with a sweet 24 hole layout, great place, great host...overall amazing!
+3 votes
Dan Bienkowski
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May 2, 2011
The course is amazing. You dont even have to be a fan of disc golf to appreciate the overall property the course is on. Much thanks to Joe for being a great host.
+4 votes
Nick Bosovich
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December 27, 2013
One of my favorite courses. Technical layout with elevation, water, open long holes, short technical holes. You name it, this course has it, very unique. Joe the owner is awesome, regularly gets the discs out of the ponds and will return them!
+2 votes
Steve Hedstrom
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September 11, 2017
Bluegill is a private course. If you get to play Bluegill, you will likely need an invite from Joe, know someone who has played there, or play at a tournament there. It is a treat of a disc golf course if you do. Bluegill has excellent pin placement on 24 holes. Land has open, left, right, woods, water on 4 holes. Multiple holes would be signature holes on other courses. Very fun to play. Both birdie opportunities and some holes that you can easily get 4, 5, or 6 if you are off the fairway ...
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+11 votes
Dave Milewski
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May 3, 2021
This course is a roller coaster. The greens rival Flip City for the toughest putting conditions in Michigan. You will throw every single shot in your bag off the tee. The same goes for saving par on your upshots. Even the holes that seem straight forward are lined with intimidating OB rope. All of this in one course puts Blue Gill in the top 5 in Michigan. The course designers are obviously seasoned golfers who knows what pros want.
+25 votes
mark ellis
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June 1, 2021
One of the best courses in the state. One of the best courses in the world. Every skill and shot are challenged and every mistake punished. The recent addition of yellow rope Out-of-Bounds, (lots of yellow rope OB) makes the long driving holes much more intimidating. It takes design genius to understand how to make fair challenges for players of every level and on this course power is of no help without precision.
The topography is superb with big ponds and steep hills and many baskets ...
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+5 votes
Brian Cole
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October 9, 2010
After two rounds for the Fall Color classic, I've got to give this course a near perfect A. Great pin placement, variety of shots, water hazard, ob/bunker hazards. Shots are technical and challenging, forcing you to play your best. Rough is very rough, which is a bonus (private course gets less play, doesn't change from year to year). In my opinion Flip City is more forgiving, making it more fun for a wide range of skill levels. Makes the most of beautiful land, and host of the best tournamen ...
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-15 votes
josh king
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September 19, 2011
im sure donations and helpers would come out of everywhere for cement pads
+5 votes
Nick Crow
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October 7, 2010
Great course. Awesome land to work with out there. Some great holes for every type of player. Long and open, long and tight, water, woods, elevation, duece options. What more could a golfer ask for. Thank you Joe Gill for the work and allowing the rest of us to enjoy the property.
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Shaky jake
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October 4, 2010
This course overall is amazing. yesterday was my first day playing the course it was a great time with live music playing thanks joe. as far as the course go it has many deffernt shot types downhill, uphill, tight, open left, right. some of the pins have great pin postions where is do or die on the putt. i could probably go on about this course for hours ill just simplly say it is right there with flip as the best course in michigan
+9 votes
Jeff Kuehle
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August 16, 2015
everyone donate so we can get concrete pads and it can be rated A+! Thanks Joe for letting us play your amazing course!
+5 votes
Daryl Davis
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September 23, 2010
Awesome course. I just wish I could stay out of the water. LOL