Rackham Golf Course

The course was in good condition even though there were many leaves falling. The course is has wide f as or ways bit the mushroom greens are tricky to hit. It is a fun course.

A beautiful, well manicured public golf course that offers all golfers a great experience. I love this course!

Rackham Golf Course was designed by legendary golf course architect Donald Ross, whose designs include Pinehurst #2, Inverness Club, and Oakland Hills. Rackham provides a challenging golf course for golfers of any level. The course has been named one of Donald Ross’ ten best public golf courses. It has been the home to 2 U.S Amateur Pub Links Championships and rated one of the Top 10 municipal golf courses in Michigan.

For those of you who are tournament players, every year, they hold a tournament called the Ben Davis classic to honor the great Ben Davis! It's an awesome tournament and I highly suggest competitive golfers to sign up and play in this amateur tournament at Rackham golf club.

Course is in great shape. Lost my range finder, staff not super helpful but that’s on me.

The Greens! Fast , large, slopes galore!

If you can putt at Rackham you can putt anywhere

The history and layout are great! Joe Louis’ course

Love Rackham!

Loved the layout. A good course to be challenged by and still not lose your mind or golf balls. Excellent course for the price

Overall course was not bad, fairly easy to stay out of trouble regardless of which side of the fairway you favor. The course itself is fairly flat from teebox to green. But don’t let that fool you the greens are tough with lots of movement. They did solve the drainage problem that I had seen in previous reviews.

The thing to be weary of is time. They do not enforce pace of play. If you are trying to make a quick round of golf this course will likely not support that unless you’re the first one off the blocks. The group we were stuck behind were painstakingly slow. The marshals are out on the course but not once did they talk to the group about their speed or lack of speed. Even after seeing our foursome stand on multiple tee boxes for twenty minutes waiting to take tee shots. Now if you don’t care about it taking 5.5 hours to play 18 holes then this does not apply.

The only other thing that bothered me was the greens keeping, while the greens were green and clearly taken care of, every single green had so much cut grass on it you had to pick clean and place your ball after every shot just because of how many clippings would cling to your ball. But if you don’t mind doing that it’s a non issue as well.

Overall, for its location and ease to get to from the metro Detroit area and the price I would play again. I would recommend either playing earlier than 8:00 if pace of play is something that concerns you. The course hotdogs were also good and a pleasant surprise at the turn!

This is a course that is near a lot of people and it was crowded in the morning. Not a big surprise on a beautiful day.

Staff very friendly especially Will the starter. Very helpful as well. Course was in great shape. Much improved from years past.

I have never golfed here. I was pleasantly surprised by the good condition of the course. My recollection from driving by the course years ago is that it looked flat and the grass seemed a bit brown. The course to me has very long holes. I do not drive the ball far so I would prefer more of a break on the shorter holes. The grass, fairways and greens were very healthy. The ground was a bit bumpy in a cart at times. Overall very nice. I loved the architecture of the clubhouse. I would like to see upgrades though to the bathrooms. They look very aged and a bit rundown.

A Donald Ross course that plays like one. The back nine is in its original state. First four holes were shortened when the freeway was built.

We golfed on a hot day. The greens were exceedingly fast. The place is okay was great, never had to wait to tee up or hit or next shot. Staff was friendly. Back 9 is shorter, but some holes okay uphill. Great round.

Fun course with decently fairways and minimal hazards such as tall grass. Less likely to lose balls. The greens are narrow so you do need to strategize on how to get there from the T-box.

Few of the holes are not friendly to players prone to slice. You will land on adjacent fairway. You need to also watch for incoming sliced balls from 1st hole Tbox while playing on the 9th.

Watch for standing puddles after rain. Course has drainage issues.

Overall, a fun course.

Great course! Back nine is a bit tougher because a couple of holes are uphill. Greens were fast, but it was very hot (95 degrees). Staff was friendly and pace of play was good.