Ridgewood Country Club

This Emmet course has been altered a lot by the membership. Course has great conditions.

Ridgewood has a very nice clubhouse,tennis courts and pool. Matter of fact if not for the awful golf course this would be a nice swimming club. The only ones who could enjoy this course are miniature golf enthusiasts. The only thing that differentiates some of ridgewoods green from a miniature golf course is that they haven’t yet installed the wind mill and clowns mouth. Six of the nine greens on the front nine and four on the back can only be repaired by a bulldozer. In reality the only hole on the course that is of high quality is the par three 10th hole. If you have any appreciation for quality golf course design then this is not a course you will want to play. The club house at Ridgewood is very nice yet for some odd reason many of the members prefer to eat and drink in a dingy filthy basement room adjacent to the locker room and bathrooms. Course conditions were terrific the greens superintendent deserves credit for putting lipstick on this pig. The golf staff is incredibly friendly. This is a terrific club if not for a terrible golf course. Turning this property into an upscale condo complex would be a better use of the land.

This club has a very nice clubhouse although for some reason members seemed to gather in a dirty disgusting cellar adjacent to the locker room and bathroom. The course itself is not worth playing. Several of the front nine greens would simply be ripped up and redone by anyone with any knowledge of golf. The only high quality hole on the course is the par3 tenth everything before and after is like a miniature golf course complete with windmills and a clowns mouth. Having said that the course was in immaculate condition and the golf staff couldn’t be nicer. Bottom line is as far as a good course you can find better at almost any local muni. Hard to imagine that this is a private course. How do they find members willing to join?