Whispering Willows
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| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 70 | 6252 yards | 70.9 | 129 |
| Silver | 70 | 5177 yards | 70.6 | 120 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold M: 70.1/124 W: 75.9/131 | 478 | 405 | 448 | 351 | 201 | 390 | 135 | 364 | 390 | 3162 | 451 | 361 | 322 | 306 | 379 | 214 | 489 | 165 | 403 | 3090 | 6252 |
| Black M: 68.8/115 W: 74.2/126 | 458 | 392 | 434 | 333 | 188 | 380 | 126 | 345 | 371 | 3027 | 435 | 348 | 288 | 301 | 367 | 184 | 474 | 146 | 389 | 2932 | 5959 |
| Silver M: 64.9/106 W: 69.8/122 | 447 | 353 | 404 | 281 | 136 | 339 | 100 | 220 | 323 | 2603 | 411 | 304 | 242 | 279 | 328 | 144 | 390 | 128 | 331 | 2557 | 5160 |
| Handicap | 9 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 4 | |||
| Par | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 35 | 70 |
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Golf Advisor: Top 25 Most Improved U.S. Golf Courses (2015 #22)
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Over priced especially in off season
Charging 30 bucks in November to play there on a Friday is typical of this place. One of the slowest courses around and the pace of play is miserable since the rangers just sit there and watch you golf. I was going to play there this Friday but not for 30 dollars plus golf now fees when its a high of 32 degrees. I will play a really nice course Friday instead that will cost the same.
Nice course!
A good combination of easy, moderate and a challenging holes. I really enjoyed the layout and will play again soon.
Nice foregiveable course
Course in good shape pace of play slow . Management needs to pair up twosomes to speed up play . I had 3 twosomes and a threesome in from of me . No rangers on the course . But can't expect all that on a public course . Greens were good . Like playing here just can't stand spending 5-51/2 hour round .
Nice course. Greens were aeriated so they were sandy and bumpy but it has to be done. Good experience.
Great Course
For a public course it is very well maintained. Challenging and interesting layout. Great value.
Great public course
The course was in great shape and the layout is good with more than a few challenges. Unfortunately, this time around we were stuck behind an outing so we only decided to play 11 holes. It just got to slow, so we came in. Other than that the course was fine. Outings are to be expected this time of year. (Sept) it's just the luck of the draw.
Livonia Delight
For a city course that gets a lot of play, Whispering Willows is in great shape.
Took an hour for the first hole
Overbooked with a less than caring club house staff
pretty good for a municipal course
I play this course a lot mostly because of convenience. It's near the freeway, it's easy to get a tee time, the staff is friendly, it's usually a quick round, especially during the week. But it's also a very nice course. The greens are almost always faster than they look, there are a handful of really challenging holes and there are some scoring opportunities. I wish it were longer or had another set of tees in back.
Ranger?
I guess courses in general don't have marshalls anymore. I have seen them on this course but not on the day I played. Had a Lady and son in front for first 3 holes. Not until I finally got frustrated and hit up on them did she offer to let me by. 30 minutes for 3 holes. After that 15 holes in 2 hours. As far as the course, it is in great shape. Just need to be aware that the pace out here can be brutal at times.
Very nice course to play.
This course will look tame to you at first sight, but don't be fooled. Gotta think about what club your hitting and your shot placement strategies. Go play it!!
Thank you for the kind review! We hope to see you back again soon!
Whispering willow
Good layout. Nice pace of play. Greens were good. A little short on yardage but plenty of tight fairways with lots of mature trees. I will be back. It was a nice round
Thank you for your review and glad to hear you enjoyed your round!
Pace of play / tee time
Not a bad track, too bad they put tee times so close together, sometimes it's painful if you don't get teed off early. I usually tee it up here (early) once or twice a year.
Whispering Willows
Although still somewhat early into the golfing season,
the conditioning and maintenance of the course was very disappointing. Tees were not rolled and crowned front front to back, fairways were very narrow and mediocre condition, the roughs were greatly overgrown and balls were falling to the bottom of the grass which made it difficult to locate and slowed the pace of play, and the green had not been rolled and showed a large amount of winter damage.
It is early in the season, but this course was in the poorest condition of the eight or nine courses I have played this season.
Good course
This course satisfied me so much except to pace.
Short and challenging
Course is fairly flat but lots of dog legs and a long par 3. Hole #2 needs 2 perfect shots to get to the green.
Purposely hitting in to the group in front of you is never the right answer and has no place on our, or any golf course. Potentially injuring a woman and child is not worth a faster round and we in no way condone this behavior. 3 holes in 30 minutes makes you on pace for a 3 hour round and is about as far from a brutal pace as you can get.