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3.6
256 Reviews (256)
5 Stars
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4 Stars
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3 Stars
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2 Stars
18
1 Stars
10
Conditions
3.6
Value
3.8
Layout
3.5
Friendliness
4.1
Pace
3.3
Amenities
3.2
70.2%
Recommend this course
198 out of 256 reviews
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3.4
10 Reviews (10)
5 Stars
2
4 Stars
4
3 Stars
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4
1 Stars
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Conditions
3.2
Value
3.4
Layout
3.2
Pace
3.1
Amenities
2.8
StaffFriendliness
3.4
60.0%
Recommend this course
6 out of 10 reviews
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3.6
24 Reviews (24)
5 Stars
6
4 Stars
9
3 Stars
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1
Conditions
3.6
Value
3.8
Layout
3.5
Pace
3.2
Amenities
3.1
StaffFriendliness
4.1
66.7%
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Holes 18
Type Public
Par 70
Length 5817 yards
Slope 122
Rating 68.9
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Idyl Wyld Golf Course
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Course Details

Year Built 1925
Golf Season April 1 - November 15

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Pull-carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range No
Golf Simulator No
Teaching Pro Yes
Putting Green Yes
Practice Hole No

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted MasterCard Visa card(s) Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Fivesomes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Proper attire is required.

Food & Beverage

Snacks, Restaurant
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3.6
256 Reviews (256)
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Reviews 8
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Response from on 09/05/2017:
Hello Mario, thank you for giving our course, Idyl Wyld Golf Course, in the Detroit area, a three-star review. We are glad to hear that you had an overall fun time at our course. We are happy to see that you found our staff friendly and that our course was in great condition when you played. Thank you for playing with us, and we'll see you on the course soon!
Played On
Reviews 7
Handicap 25+
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Will come back

I'm sure I came at an awkward time but, playing by myself I spent 5 holes waiting up to 10 minutes between shots on the front. After they let me play I thought everything would be great as the slower 2 in front of them were only playing 9. Nope, at the turn I go to 10 to try to keep my momentum and a league was about to tee off. 9 carts and 3 walkers. I wasn't about to wait an hour to tee off again so I just played the front 9 again.

Tee time 1:28

Actual tee off 1:45

Finished 5:20

I get leagues should take precedence, but why would you have them start on 10 if you know you've been sending public to the front? If you know the league needs to play the back 9 for some reason then shouldn't you send people a couple hours before on the back so we don't run into each other when the public goes to turn?

I wasn't the only one, the slower 2some that was ahead of me ended up quitting after 15.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Response from on 08/23/2017:
Hello Kenny, thank you for taking the time to review our course, Idyl Wyld, and for the 3-stars. We are sorry to hear about the slow pace of play and we appreciate your feedback regarding the time of our league. It looks like you enjoyed the course conditions and had a friendly experience with our staff, so we are glad to see that. Thank you for recommending our course, in the Detroit area, and we hope to see you again soon.
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Excellent Round

Great round on a Friday afternoon, twosome and we easily finished in under three hours. Gave us ample time to hit a great Bar located on-site. Fun course to play on a stress free Friday afternoon.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Excellent value

Nice course with some water hazards and sand traps thrown in, you can't beat the price.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap Don't know
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Can't Beat This Deal

A buddy and I tried to squeeze a round of golf before an event later in the day and only had time for 9. The course was not the best I have been on but was in great shape for a public course. Seemed like staff and patrons were mindful to fill divots and the like.

Interesting layout, some up hill, some down hill, added a nice challenge for a bad golfer like myself. Would definitely go again especially for a little over a dollar a hole with cart.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Course OK

This course was in great shape. Relatively short in comparison to most courses I play. Helps with your confidence since you can score low based on course layout.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 11
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Idyl Wyld

Course played great. Staff was very courteous

and the course itself can be challenging

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

Good course for $18

The course was in good shape and well manicured. Play was exceptionally fast today. Some tough greens.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 16
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Where are the hot dogs????

My friends and I decided to go for a pleasant, relaxing round of golf on a beautiful Saturday morning. We got there early to get some practice in before our tee time.

Walking into the club house we were excited to find they had free coffee and donuts....plus! However, we didn't know that would be our only excitement about food. When we made the turn, we find out that there was not hot dogs or much to purchase.

Since we had about 15-20 mins before our tee time, we wanted to go putt for a bit while we waited on one of our friends. The whole time we were putting, we noticed two foursomes on #1 tee just waiting. We noticed no-one was in front of them so we were baffled why they weren't teeing off and getting going. Tee was getting backed up. Next thing we hear is over the loud speaker, our group was being called to #1 to tee off.....WHHHHAT!?!?! We still had 6 mins till our tee time, the groups on the tee box could have teed off! Instead we were pressured to go tee off on #1 before our tee time causing now the tee box to be backed up to 3 foursomes, very unpleasant!!!!!

We were also pressured to go to #10 tee...can I use the bathroom at least?!?! We get to the 10th tee and the foursome that was behind us on the front were waiting on the 10th tee.

Course was in decent shape, grounds were wet from some rain in prior days. Especially in some of the valleys on a few holes where our balls got plugged and we couldn't find them. It would be nice to have some yardage to water hazards on some holes where the creek cuts across. Tee boxes were a bit rough and was difficult to find a flat spot for stance.

In conclusion, the course wasn't bad, my friends had a fun time, enjoyed some cigars and the round. Cigars made everything better and I forgot about them not having hot dogs at the turn.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 12
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Won't golf here again!

Course was in terrible condition, grass way too long, not trimmed. Play was so slow we quit after playing 9 holes even though we paid for 18!

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

The course was way over booked and because of the soggy turf on most holes, it was cart path only which slowed down pay even more. There were about 15 people lined up waiting to tee off and no starter there to keep things organized. As a result people were not teeing off in order of tee time until a ranger finally showed up. Later I could here names being called off over the PA system as we were making the turn. The back nine was even slower so we finally got frustrated and left after the 13th hole. No tee off markers and no ball cleaners available on the entire course. If they weren't ready for golfers, they shouldn't have opened the choose for play. Very disappointing experience all around.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

The course has a great bar are grill

Too late in the season to expect quality leaf pick ups at every inch of course but fairways were clean and the only time spent looking for balls was in the few congested areas of leaves that were a slice or a hook away

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 25+
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
First Time Playing
Good weather
Used cart

Good Variety at a Good Price

My wife and I played here recently and had a good time. There are quite a few holes with significant elevation changes, which was fun to navigate. A few of the tee boxes were in rough shape, but the rest of the course played well.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great historic course and very busy

Played on a Sunday morning. The course was packed. No beer cart even after 11 due to football season. My husband was disappointed. Lots of mature trees and usually heard a ball hit by a club and then hit a tree! Felt like we had to hurry up wait and wait at times due to the busyness.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played
Average weather
Walked

Beene playing here for over 20 years and it's still the same shabby course.

Idyl Wyld is just an average public course. Nothing special to it. Some of the tee boxes have looked god awful for years! Compare to the other Livonia courses, this one is easily the most boring, ugly, and unkempt. The greens always roll like garbage as well. It's sucks too because I want Idyl Wyld to be decent. I learned how to golf on this course through Junior leagues almost 20 years ago!

If you want to play a much better course drive to Glenhurst in Redford. All around better course.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 7
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Excellent weather
Used cart

Great Course

I have been playing Idyl Wyld for a number of years. It has always been a wonderful place to play. Only thing missing is a food cart every once in a while. But that does not take anything away from a beautiful course. I live in Detroit and this is one of the course I play in the Metro Detroit area , that I would take my out of town friends, guest and family to play.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Slow Players Tarnished Round

First time at Idyl Wyld. Course was mostly flat with some trees lining fairways and bunkers protecting greens. Greens and fairways were very well maintained.

I was playing alone and there were larger groups ahead of me (2 and 3). Finished the 7th hole behind the group's and skipped 8 and 9 to start and finish the back at a better pace. Took me around 3 hours to play 16 holes by myself, awfully slow for a single on a weekday morning.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 10
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

Never Again

This is the second time I've played this course and both times the pace of play was an absolute joke. Yes, there's a ranger on duty but nothing it's ever taken care of. But my big complaint is the overall course design...if your a long hitter don't even bother. I had no choice but to use driver on their par 5's seeing as they were over 500 yds, and every good blast would land or roll into a hazard you didn't even know was there. If you played it short you would have to hit a tour caliber shot to reach and score, also leaving you NO room for error. Their greens are perfect circles with NO CHARACTER what so ever. Some are circus style with pin positions on the top of a green that slopes almost 160° downward. I'll never play here again, it's not made for long hitters or solid ballstrikers because of all the trees and misplaced hazards. Oh by the way, their tee boxes are hardpan, divot riddled slopes as well....

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great experience

Played this course for the first time with two other players. Staff was great, didn't need to use facilities and the bar was closed this day so I'm neutral. The pace of play was good, two groups ahead of us was very nice to let us go ahead of them. The condition of the course itself was above average. I'd play here again and will try the other two Livonia courses. Great rate I got on Golfnow as well.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Read my review!!!

For the money the course was great! The staff was awesome and very professional. Now! The course tried to accommodate a bachelor party on a Saturday morning and sent a six-some out and given that it was a Saturday and every tee time was booked this bachelor party group made the pace of play super slow. It took 3 1/2 hours to play 9 holes. The staff was great in handling the matter. I gave the poor rating for pace of play but it was great and the regulars even apologized and explained that it is a fun muny course to play.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
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