About
Ravines Golf Club is southwest Michigan's first Arnold Palmer signature course. The course is situated three hours outside of Detroit in Saugatuck. Thanks to wide fairways and generous landing areas, the layout is not as tough as it seems but it does have plenty of challenges in store. Strategically placed bunkers, mature trees, and wetlands all come into play throughout. There are some challenging holes on the front half, including the sixth and seventh, but the back nine opens with the golf course's toughest hole. The ninth is a long and difficult par 5 dogleg left where trees, water, and bunkers come into play. Ravines Golf Club's signature hole, though, is the par-3 17th, known for both its scenery and level of difficulty. This hole requires a risky shot over a ravine to one of the golf course's largest putting surfaces.
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Photo submitted by chadbury on 05/11/2023
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Photo submitted by coopmike on 07/24/2021
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Photo submitted by u043424768 on 05/06/2020
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The Ravines Golf Club, hole 3 Photo submitted by TimGavrichGP on 10/08/2019
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The Ravines Golf Club, hole 13 Photo submitted by TimGavrichGP on 10/08/2019
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Photo submitted by Michael6810649 on 06/02/2014
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Photo submitted by Michael6810649 on 06/02/2014
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Photo submitted by KO68 on 09/06/2013
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Challenging par 5 - tee shot over the ravine Photo submitted by u00000638985 on 06/03/2013
Golfer Reviews
Quality Course!
This was my first time at the Ravines. The course was rather busy the day I played so I waited frequently, this was the worst thing about my experience but I still got around the course in a decent amount of time. The biggest quip I had about the facility was that they didn't allow chipping on the putting green for some reason and they didn't have a chipping green. That's the first time I've ever heard of this. As far as the course itself, it was an absolute gem! Quality greens and fairways with plenty of challenging beautiful holes. Each hole had its own character and style with some being open and some tighter. The carts this year were also new and they had a great GPS system that was top quality. You could also keep score on the GPS and it emailed the scorecard to me when I was done. Very awesome!! I'll definitely be back.
Cant Find Much Wrong on This Course
Great course! Excellent condition. The pace of play is not the courses fault. Just depends on how long the moron infront of you searches for his Slazenger! The pace of play was great once they figured out the woods was bad. The course is in great condition always. Greens are challenging and rewarding. THere are some great holes to score on, and then there are some treacherous ones. If you can place your ball on the fairways, you seem to always be in a great location to score, and the course has some forgiveness. I love this course. The price is a bit steep without a deal, but if you find a good rate, I HIGHLY recommend it! Great Course
The Ravines is a Great Track and Hidden Gem!!!!
The Ravines offer you almost every challenge imaginable in golf. This must be an Arnold Palmer design!!!! The cart girl girl, Jenna, help the round even better!!!! She always seems to show up at the right time!!!! This course is truly a Hidden Piece of Greatness!!!!
Fun Course
Had a good time. Course was a fun layout and in okay condition. Greens were a touch slow. Would play again. Only negative was that it was very buggy out.
Great course
The Ravines is just a great golf course. It's even better being able to play such a great course by using GolfNow for reduced rates. Awesome course, especially near sunset. I would recommend the course to anyone.
Great for spring
Course was wet but great condition considering the weather we had last couple days. Definitely want to come back in summer!
fun, unique, challenging
Great condition for late fall, w/o many leaves. Good test, very scenic .
beautiful course
It was in great shape! Great looking course! I just got bored with hitting 2 iron all day. My first drive of the day was on hole 14 and my last drive of the day was on hole 15. I hit 5 iron off two of the par 5s. It was almost a whole round of target golf. That being said, I'm glad I made the trip to play it once.
Great Course
Our weather could have been better but what a great course. Very challenging layout but in great shape. After playing Harbor Shores and then this, I would come back here. The layout is fair to the player and yet challenging by design. Not tricky by design, but you have to hit good shots and that's what I like about it.
Awesome course
Great course, played it twice in the last 2 months. The first time everything was moving at a good pace, the second time things were every slow. Two foursomes in front of my twosome that would wait at every green for their friends really held up pace, this really isnt a fault of the course just annoying. I would like to think a course this nice would have a ranger to monitor the pace of play. The grounds looked great for being late September, fairways nice and clean, and greens still lightning fast. Over all great course. Would take friends there anytime.
Beautiful Day Beautiful Course
played The Ravines for the first time this year. Brought a friend who had never been and it knocked his socks off. Course was in great shape just before the aeration process begins. Greens were fast and true. Pace of play was slowed by 2 4-somes that seemingly couldn't afford to lose a golf ball.
public course with prive course qualities
As one who finds beauty an important quality of golfing ... this is a high on that quality. Other qualities are fun and challenging ... a high quality course.
Use your three wood
U can drive thru the fairways if your not spot on with your placement.
A visitor from Florida
It was cool with a little bit of rain but the course was in great condition and everyone was very nice. Very scenic and greens were in good shape.
Beautiful Course!
Visually beautiful, and very challenging!! Every hole requires targeting. Exciting to play and makes you think about club selection from tee to green. Fun to play!
arnies course
What a great value. Ravines was a wonderful course to play . Very challenging and the course was in excellent shape. It was worth the drive.