Centennial Acres Golf Course Review

Centennial Acres Golf Course Review

Centennial Acres
Sunfield, Michigan
Grade: B
Teacher’s Comments: A very pleasant local course

Centennial Acres is a fun country course that offers quite a bit of variety.

There are three nines at Centennial Acres, with some interesting names: Sunrise, Midday and Sunset. I played the Sunrise/Midday combination.

Over the eighteen I played, Centennial Acres offered parklands, woodlands, wetlands, and open prairie style holes. If there’s a style you like, you’ll find a hole or three of it at Centennial Acres.

The course also offers quite a bit of variety in hole shapes and elevation changes. I counted six doglegs to one degree or another on the Sunrise, and three on the Midday. Sunrise begins with a solid downhill shot and then slowly climbs out of the valley. Midday has lots of ups and downs.

The Sunrise nine is located directly across a small country road from the clubhouse. It is mostly parklands, but a couple of the holes are lined by thicker woods. Water is present on seven of the holes.

On the clubhouse side of the road, the Midday Nine is more woods and marsh, but opens up to a couple of open holes at the point furthest from the clubhouse. This nine also has more elevation changes.

My favorite hole was the par five third on the Sunrise nine. This parklands style hole has a snakelike fairway with bunkers designed to catch a ball on both the tee and second shots. Small, widely spaced trees on the edges could knock down a wayward shot, but were unlikely to result in being stymied.

On the Midday nine, I enjoyed the dogleg left sixth. A downhill tee shot was followed by an uphill shot back to the green. Trees on the inside of the bend can make a player think about playing far to the right, but that not only offers a longer approach; it runs the danger of a sidehill lie.

Yardages, slope and ratings for Centennial Acres are below:

Sunrise

Tee	Yardage
Black	3392
White	3194
Green	2995
Yellow	2521
Red	1968

Midday

Tee	Yardage
Black	3282
White	2989
Green	2776
Yellow	2439
Red	1993

Sunset

Tee	Yardage
Black	3153
White	2874
Green	2493
Yellow	2135
Red	1853

The overall ratings and slope are below

Conditions on the day I played were mostly good. Fairways, greens and tee boxes were mostly in good shape. There were a couple of areas that I thought could be trimmed back and some low-lying areas were soggy.

If I had one complaint about Centennial Acres, it is that it was sometimes difficult to sort out where to go on the Midday/Sunrise side. Those two nines are intertwined, and one a couple of occasions I got lost and had to backtrack.

I had a good time at Centennial Acres, and were it closer, I would be happy to play it again.

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A photo tour of Centennial Acres follows: