Maple Grove Golf Course Review

Maple Grove Golf Course Review

Maple Grove Golf Course
Lambertville, Michigan
Grade: D
Teacher’s Comments: A passing grade, but just barely.

I really wanted to like Maple Grove. The whole facility has a scrappy entrepreneurial feel. In addition to the eighteen hole couse, it’s got a nine hole par three, a driving range and softball and baseball batting cages.

Unfortunately, the golf course was underwhelming.

At just 5, 403 yards, Maple Grove is not much more than an “executive course.” Maple Grove has six par threes, two fives and eleven fours. Three of the par fours are right around 300 yards long. Even for this short hitter, those are a drive and a pitch. One of the holes is a par 3/4, making the course either a par 68 or a par 69.

Tee	Yardage	Rating	Slope
White	5, 403	63.1	105
Red	4, 760	64.9	105

To be clear: an executive course is not a bad thing. Indeed, there should be more of them. But executive courses should advertise themselves as such; Maple Grove says it is a “regulation course,” which to my mind means at least a par 70 and 6,000 yards. Maple Grove was short on both par and yards.

Maple Grove came up short in other ways, too. On the day I played, the course was overgrown and unkempt. I had trouble distinguishing fairways from rough. There were large patches of hardpan. In other spots, it was soggy.

Trees intruded on the lines of play to the point where at times it felt oppressive.

There is a decent executive course under all that, though. I’m not fan of the current golf architectural fad of pulling up all the trees and turning parklands into meadows, but some judicious chainsaw work goes a long way. In this case, however, I think clearing out the growth would help with both play and conditions.

All that said, I saw a considerable number of people out that day enjoying the course. I played with a local who said that he was a regular. As with so many mom-and-pop courses, there no doubt is a contingent of locals who enjoy the course — and particularly its low cost rounds (I paid $20 to walk). It is just not a course to which I would ever return.

The Maple Grove golf course review was first published April 8, 2025 from notes and photos taken on a round played during the 2024 season. For a list of all of GolfBlogger’s Michigan golf course reviews, follow the link.

A course tour of Maple Grove follows: