Tanglewood - The Lion - West: #6
A view of hole #6 from West Course at Tanglewood - The Lion.
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4.5
339 Reviews (339)
5 Stars
173
4 Stars
123
3 Stars
29
2 Stars
11
1 Stars
3
Conditions
4.4
Value
4.5
Layout
4.7
Friendliness
4.7
Pace
4.4
Amenities
4.5
94.5%
Recommend this course
302 out of 339 reviews
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4.6
16 Reviews (16)
5 Stars
11
4 Stars
4
3 Stars
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0
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0
Conditions
4.5
Value
4.6
Layout
4.8
Pace
4.5
Amenities
4.7
StaffFriendliness
4.9
93.8%
Recommend this course
15 out of 16 reviews
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4.6
27 Reviews (27)
5 Stars
19
4 Stars
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3 Stars
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Conditions
4.5
Value
4.6
Layout
4.9
Pace
4.6
Amenities
4.7
StaffFriendliness
4.8
92.6%
Recommend this course
25 out of 27 reviews
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Course Highlights
The course layout consistently earns high praise, with well-maintained fairways, fast greens, and scenic views rewarding golfers at every level. Friendly staff throughout the shop, grill, and starters make this an outstanding value for the experience.

About

Holes 18
Type Public
Par 72
Length 6913 yards
Slope 136
Rating 72.8

Tanglewood, also known as "The Lion," boasts 27 holes of championship golf, divided into the North, South, and West nines. The holes are played in three different 18-hole combinations. The North/West Course starts with the gentlest nine before moving on to the newest and arguably the most challenging nine. The undulating landscape provides a soft bowl-shape to many of the holes that help to keep errant shots in play by corralling them away from the bordering backyards. Water hazards come into play on seven holes on the West nine and the greens are also guarded heavily by pins. The West's third hole is one of the most memorable holes on the golf course. This tricky par 4 gets progressively more challenging as you move from the wide fairways to the steep and intrusive bunkers that lead to the green.

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Course Details

Year Built 1991
Fairways Bent Grass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season Open: 4/01 Closed: 11/15
Architect Bill Newcomb (1991)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Appropriate golf attire

Food & Beverage

Restaurant, Beverage Carts

Available Facilities

Banquet Facilities
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Reviews

4.5
339 Reviews (339)

What Golfers Are Saying

Course Challenges Include:
Water Hazards 11
Bunkers 8
Thick Rough 8
This course/club is great for:
Advanced Golfers 6
Locals 6
Playing Multiple Courses 6
This Course's Location is:
In the 'Burbs 8
Worth the Drive 6

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Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

Great Course

I thought this was a great course. Maintained very well and played very fair. We did 18 in 3 1/2 hours which was amazing on a 73 degree sunny Saturday afternoon. Course seems to be very well run, will be back on a regular basis.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
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Poor Management

Arrived for our round a few minutes late which is entirely our fault. Most courses would be understanding that we were held up by traffic but not here. First of all, it was a Monday morning, c'mon now. When we went to check in, a man, who thought he would try and ruin our round for being 5 mins late, began to hassle us and decided to make us wait another 10 minutes, just so we would be behind a senior women's league that was to go off. From the start this orange shirted fella was nothing but rude. It was our fault for arriving late 100% but there are ways to treat people and ways not to, this was not one of them. Naturally, we made our way around the league on the front, never causing a hold up to anyone else on the course. When making the turn we were made to wait for the league to catch and tee off of 10 North while we sat and watched 5+ groups of women go before us. The women's league played with excellent pace and it was not a problem from there. In conclusion, none of us, nor the group behind us will be back to this course because of this poor management and people skills of the so called "pro" or assistant "pro".

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Friendliness Poor
Pace Fair
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

slow green

entire course was good but Green was too slow. need more control the status of green

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 62
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

Early season golf in Southeast Michigan

Haven't played the course in a few years...still a good course. Pretty respectable conditions considering the course has only been open for a few weeks. Only issues were the temporary green on #9 of North course and construction for new homes being built

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
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Previously Played

Great course

Wonderful course, just houses are being build around the course.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 9
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

golf

nice course but too early in the season greens are a little frost bit everybody was very nice and helpful I will return to this course

Conditions Good
Value Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
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Previously Played

Fantastic Shape

Course is in fantastic shape for fall. Greens are smooth and in great condition. Will be coming back for sure .

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Good course

Totally this is a good course and cost performance is much reasonable.
Only what I had an issue to play there was difficult to find the accurate yardage to hit into green.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

Tanglewood a great place to play

We golfed all 3 nines and found the course to be in great shape and the greens were tough but fair. Had a wonderfull time.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Average weather
Used cart

Great Course in Novi Area

We were pleasantly surprised at how immaculate the course was for October golf. We will definitely be back next year and do all 27 holes.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Don't miss out this fall!

The course is in Great shape!!!!! The greens are vary fast and also in great shape!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 16
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Fair weather
Used cart

Good variety

Prefer the west course which unfortunately was not available. Greens were a little rough. Rainy conditions

Conditions Good
Value Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 7
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Very Dissappointed

Paired with 2 Beginner golfers. They were all over the first 9 holes. They were kind to let me go ahead of them by myself. Got to the back nine and after 3 holes I find 2 groups of foursomes waiting on the tee in all the holes ahead of me. An outing was started. I could wait anymore and went to the clubhouse. The starter made it sound like that I'm at fault. I didn't even get a refund for 9 holes. Just walked away angry. Nobody told me about the outing before I started.

Conditions Good
Value Fair
Friendliness Fair
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 57
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Nice course but....the greens

On the day I played, the greens were extremely long which made getting a good roll on tough greens impossible. Pace of play was great as I played in 2 and half hours on a busy day as a single. Have to work the ball both directions and overall a nice course. Looks like they are redesigning a hole on the south course.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Not like the Tanglewood I know

Love playing these courses. Although a little pricey, you get return value in the course challenge and conditions. I was a little disappointed on thw condition of the North course. The greens were in bad shape. Thia is what surprised me somewhat.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Disorganized starter, need a ranger

Starter has 27 holes to manage and does it poorly. Made the turn and waited half hour just to get started again. Stuck behind party bunch playing boombox and taking their sweet time. Lack of ranger and poor starter management slowed our round to a crawl. Ended up skipping holes to get past congestion.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Very well maintained.

Mark and his staff have the course in great shape.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap Don't know
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Excellent weather
Used cart

Nice

It was a nice place and staff were very welcoming. The course was good condition even after a weekend. Would play again.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

Tanglewood

Some greens were still partially damaged but no tentative green. Totally, course condition was good.
The course difficulty is approporiate for intermediate golfers like me.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 26
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Previously Played
Good weather
Used cart

Worst Greens I've Played This Season

I played Tanglewood South/West nines as a practice round for an upcoming tournament today and was very disappointed with the condition of the course.
First of all I arrive early to warm up at there driving range which is a little piece of land wedged between the 9th hole and houses and doesn't allow for a club longer then a 3 iron to be hit off of shaggy unkept grass. From there I walk over to a practice putting green which was the worse condition practice green I've seen in at least 2 years. 75% of the green was lacking grass and roped off and the remaining areas were in such terrible shape I didn't even bother using it.
I started on the South Nine, the 1st green was the worst on the course with 4 and 6 also in very bad shape. Most the greens on the South had some damage that caused putts to bounce off line. There is also an ongoing construction project on Hole #3 a Par 5 in which there's random piles of dirt 5-6 feet tall in the middle of the fairway. The West nine was in much better shape with minimal damage to the greens but still some areas that altered play. I would like to note that the course condition besides the greens was pretty good and the fairways were well kept.
I've played this course for the same tournament 3 years in a row and this is by far the worst I've seen it and I will not be playing it again this year afterward. I know it was a bad winter in Michigan but it's July and the Summer has been great, there's no excuse for how bad some of these looked.

I would recommend playing another course for the price they charge.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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