Lake Doster Golf Club

Course is well kept except for holes 6 and 7 are using a fake green at the end of the fairway to help the original greens be resurfaced (original greens look fine) . Offer $5 off or notify golfers at check-in

still playing on temp greens on holes 6 & 7. saw the repairs to old greens, looked good they cut them for the first time since repairs. Excellent work by the staff on the mending of the greens.

Course has nice layout. Greens were a touch slow and bunkers were in rough shape. Staff was friendly. This is a nice course. For the price really nice. If they sped up the greens and a little bunker work this would be a very tough course.

Was a great course, but is going through a period of neglect.

The course was fun to play. An accurate tee shot can lead to scoring opportunities. Some of the greens were in rough shape. Two holes had temp greens in play. They did not mention that when we checked in.

Only real negative was pace of play. There was a “sixsome” playing ahead of us, 2 adults and 4 kids. They caused a back-up that stretched over at least 4 holes. Also right behind them were 2 couples that were obviously not golfers. Males wearing Jean shorts and no shirts.

First time here, but what a nice layout! This course uses elevation changes on every single hole to make some very nice challenges. That said, there were very few blind tee shots, and you mostly got what you saw. Course was in good to great shape for its age and, while cart paths were deteriorated from age, the greens and fairways were well kept and quite playable.

Clover all over in the rough. Bunker sand hard and more like top soil.

I found out halfway through the front nine that they have 4 temporary greens. No mentioned this when I checked in. If they would have told me, I would have not played.

I drove 15 hours from Georgia to visit relatives and play nice courses in Michigan. I would not put this one under the category for a nice course.

West Michigan is having a drought currently. The drought impacted course conditions, and irrigation looked to be struggling to keep up. We didn’t think this would impact us, but it made locating our ball difficult at times, as everything appeared very “bright / white / yellow / brown”. Also negatively impacting our ability to locate out ball was clover its white flowers. Someone also drove the course and had dropped marshmallows, which was cute at first, but by the 18th hole had grown old.

Due to the drought, things were dry and dusty.

Carts were gas powered, and wife is pregnant, so we weren’t thrilled with the fumes. It was a faster golf cart that seemed noisier / jerky - overpowered for the job. Cart was a little dirty and could have been washed down.

Some of the greens had clover outbreaks and weird patterns / dry spots - but mowed short. There was vandalism on 2 of the holes, which resulted in temporary tees.

The course is a little expensive for the conditions.

We played at 2PM and it was quite busy during checkin and at the bar.

Despite this, there are some fun and interesting holes. I could see someone potentially staying here to golf in West Michigan. It’s somewhat close to US-131 and looks to have a lot of rentals.

This course has so much potential to be really good; it has a great layout and variety in the holes. However, it deals with the same problems any course with mature trees has. Tee boxes on the front are in really bad shape. Not giving players a heads up there are temporary greens on the front is also a big negative. Definitely not worth the price with shape it is currently in.

My buddy paid for this round on tea off.com $32 each. We had driven by here several times and always wanted to play it. I remember hearing good things about it 30 years ago and finally we played it and we did not expect much because we heard the conditions went downhill which was very true. It’s too bad also because the layout is very nice the hills and the scenery are nice and settles in between the homes very nicely. The only thing that is really still pretty good are the greens which are fast and sloped and not a flat green on the course.

It’s really horrible how bad the car paths are with the 30 to 40 year old concrete just falling apart it looks horrible and it’s hard on the golf carts. The tea boxes are atrocious and the sand traps are bad and I can see that the conditions are similar to what happened at Wallingwood in Jenison being it is the same ownership. Well I would say go ahead and play it but make sure you don’t pay much more than 30 bucks the layout is nice but the fairways are average and the tea boxes are awful but scenic why is it is it is fine

Yes and you also probably know that two of the greens are under reconstruction because of some stupid kids riding their all-terrain vehicles across them last year which of course they put up to temporary greens Richard a joke so you can basically rule out two holes there.

Great shape considering how late in the year we played.

a couple t boxes in need of repair but overall course was in better shape than last year and continues to be a mixed bag difficulty the par 4s have some length so distance off the tee is a premium for the length of these holes for par score.