Brentwood Golf Club & Banquet Center
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Brentwood Golf & Banquet Center in White Lake is conveniently less than an hour from downtown Detroit. The 18-hole layout has two distinctly different designs. The front nine is a wooded trail design with homes lining the fairways while the back nine has a more open, classic Scottish-links layout with fewer trees. There are nearly 40 bunkers situated along the greens and fairways and a variety of marshes, wetlands, and ponds come into play on 13 holes. To make the golf course even more challenging, the strategically placed mounding provides a number of tricky uneven lies from all angles and on nearly every hole. Brentwood's par-5 16th is a particularly memorable hole, featuring a grass hill that is directly in front of the green, almost completely blocking the view of the putting surface on the approach.
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Greens Extremely Fast
Normally when we play this course the greens are fast, but fair. This time, the holes were cut in very unfair locations on the front nine and are lightening fast. All four golfers 4-putt on the 1st hole, and that has never happened before. Overall, the course is in very good shape for this time of year.
Figure out your tee sheet
Waited 5-10 minutes on every shot. No ranger. Nice enough course but miserable behind a threesome the whole round. Won’t be back
First time playing
It was my first time playing this course and probably the last. No starter on site to organize tee times. Twosome going when they should be foursomes. Front nine as alot of gimmicky holes. To many groups of non golfers playing radios and singing along with no concept of tone. Dancing around after every shot. Back nine is wide open you can let it rip. The greens at this course is what gives this course a challenge
A challenging start, but fun.
The front 9 is a seriously narrow challenge, but the back is more open but longer.
Nice change for the area
This was my first time playing this course and I found a great deal through TeeOff, $24 for 18 holes with a cart. I really enjoyed the difference between the front and back 9, and the Scottish style back 9 was fairly unique compared to other courses I have played in Michigan. Overall a very nice course!
Needs Some Work
Although I play this course several times a year and will again, the tee boxes are terrible-they are not level and need seeding and regular maintenance. Cart paths are the worst in the area. For the money charged, wish the course would reinvest some on maintenance
Nice layout
I liked the course. I found some areas of hard pan where it was a bit difficult to hit from but I liked the layout. Some holes could be marked better. A couple blind tee shots which isn’t great. If I played again I would know more.
Good for variety of player skills
This course is tucked into a neighborhood but fairways are decent width making it reasonably challenging for golfers of all skill levels.
The forward tee boxes take some of the challenge out of the course while the tee boxes at the tips bring a challenge to skilled golfers.
Greens showed signs of recent outings. Golfers nowadays don't seem to know that they're supposed to repair ball marks on the greens. I repaired 3-5 ball marks per green.
There are blind shots which makes it challenging for long-ball hitters to locate their ball. We found many in the woods and in other OB areas.
Prices are a bit high compared to what they used to be but that's inflation for you. The maintenance of the course was decent, albeit we just golfed up north at a facility where the greens fees were higher and there's a drastic diffeerence between fairway maintenance.
Cart paths could use some maintenace. Seems to be an issue at many courses where we go in our area.
It's a nice course and chanes are, if you find yourself on this course for a round, you'll have fun.
My favorite hole is the Par 3 which is set upon a peninsula so each shot travels over water.
Warning. If you don't like having a gallery of loud people standing nearby, there's a banquet facility where wedding parties and other types of parties can be hosted. People from those parties tend to congregate outside making it very noisey for golfers on my favorite hole (the par 3 I mentioned earlier). I don't mind the noise so much but it's pretty obvious that these people don't give a care about golfers. This factor might make some uncomfortable so it's worth mentioning.