9/2/2023 0 Comments Old silo golf course reviewqPer Google, I recently happened upon a course I never heard of before while hoping to get the winter rust off the clubs by taking advantage of one nice day near the end of April before another rain/sleet/snow cold snap came along. What I like about golf in Michigan is that we have so many different golf courses that cater to all kinds of golfer skills, price ranges, land features and golf challenges. ![]() Maybe that’s another reason for terrible chipping and putting. Lots of small and homemade planes to entertain the eye from below. And if you like watching small airplanes, the front nine is in the landing pattern of the local air strip. The run up to the green is probably the skinniest section of fairway on the course.Ī creek runs through the entire property, coming into play many times. ![]() From there on in, the very wide fairway gets narrower due to a lake extension that you cannot easily see encroaching the fairway from the left, with the right side guarded by very large bunkers. The par 5 turns right at about where most player’s drives would land. It’s pretty, and pretty tricky for the second shot. My ball wouldn’t hold the skinny green from that angle and trickled over and into the rough. Yet coming from the side like I did, the green is very thin ‘front to back’ (think Augusta National’s No. The trade off is if you follow the fairway longways, you are hitting it to a skinny green that is very deep as to allow many club choices. Following the cut fairway makes it almost 400 yards long, but just for fun I chose to layup the drive short right, which left only 145 to the green, over some water. ![]() Hole 11 is a very unique par 4 with a 90-degree turning dogleg right. 6 has the tees set in a wide-open area, but on the way to the green things get very tight with sand bunkering and trees shrinking the gap immensely. 4 is a gorgeous par 3 over the corner of a small lake. Even from the almost forward tees, two of them were 170 yards long. Most greens had one or two flat ‘perches’ for challenging hole locations, and if your approach shot/chip didn’t find or stay on said perch, putting was a harder test of skill on the remaining undulating surfaces. Playing the 6,000 yard tees, this 18 handicapper made it around quite well, sans the terrible day of chipping and putting (that said, the green complexes were partially responsible). The fairways are wide and inviting off the tees. The houses are pushed back away from the playing area quite well, so as to not be intrusive on a majority of holes. Stonebridge is the Arthur Hills design set within the confines of a housing development. 8 public course in metro Detroit last fall by the Detroit Free Press.ĭespite living in metro Detroit for 30 years, I had never seen the course until early this May, when on a reconnaissance mission with three other golfers planning to host a charity event there in August. The course closed in May, 2017.Stonebridge Golf Course in southwest Ann Arbor was ranked the No. The downward spiral had begone and continued to accelerate. Starting around 2013 maintenance was cut back and the course conditioning deteriorated. The shortest hole on the course is # 14, a par-3 that plays to 157 yards from the back tees.įor a number of years, the course was rated the best public course in Kentucky. The longest hole on the course is # 18, a par-5 that plays to 574 yards. From the forward tees, the course measures 5,509 yards. From the back tees, the course plays to 6,977 yards. The course winds through rolling hills and has water in play along Somerset Creek throughout the course. The fairways are generally open and lead to large greens that vary in undulation. Old Silo Golf Club is a links-style course, with extensive bunkering throughout. Old Silo Golf Club opened for play in 2001. ![]() Old Silo Golf Club is a Public 18 hole golf course located just east of Lexington in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Detailed description of Old Silo Golf Club, CLOSED 2017
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