South/North at Sycamore Hills Golf Club

This is the worst course imaginable. The fairways are In very bad condition. Some are all weeds. Some are like the Sahara Desert. The absolute worst part is the pace of play. This course over books to the extent that it will take you 30 min to play one hole. It’s all about how many people they can get on the course. Money grabbers. I would highly not recommend playing this course. Until they get it together.

2 of the par 5s have the tees way up and playing as par3s. Had an 8some in front of us for the first few holes that the rangers let happen, so we ended up just skipping a hole since they wouldn’t let us play through. Not worth $70, will not be back.

I played Sycamore a few times this year. I was staying away from it because the course wasn’t really taken care of at the beginning of season. I played the other day and WOW!!what a turnaround from the beginning of the year. The fairways were in great condition and so were the tee boxes and the greens. Great job to the groundskeepers!

Played here many times over the last several years. Condition is the worst I have seen, by far. West course is particularly bad. North is slightly better, Tee boxes, fairways and even greens have large bare dirt areas and dead grass, showing major neglect. Several tee boxes are verging on unplayable. Overall condition has plummeted this year compared to prior rounds.

I held Sycamore in high regard, one, of my favorites, until today. Paid $67 on a Sunday (18 holes-riding) for a course that should have been $47, if that. I should have listened to another reviewer saying similar things here, but I suppose I had to see for myself. It'll be tough to go back anytime soon. Disappointing!

Course was in pitiful shape. I have played it quite a few times and this is the worst it’s been. A 70$ round, might as well have played maple lane

Paid $67 for 18. Price is OUTRAGEOUS for what you’re getting. Where do I even start? Many of the fairways have dirt spots. Same with the greens. Tee boxes were beat up, difficult to find a spot to tee your ball. A par 5 on the west course was cut in half and turned into a par 3. The course setup is average at best. No organization or enforcement from the “starter” (some guy sitting in a shack). We pulled up to the first tee 3 groups deep. Both us and the group in front of us had “8am” tee times. I probably wouldn’t complain if the rate was $50, but it wasn’t. I normally don’t complain if the price is right, but I can write a list a mile long of the courses I could play for a similar price before I ever returned to this place.

TLDR course is too expensive for the condition it is in. Can find many better courses at equal or better price point. Save yourself the trouble.

This course used to be great about TWO years ago when you only had to pay about $50 (almost $70 now after only a 2 season difference) for a 18 hole round that you could finish in under 5 hours. NOW they jacked the prices up like everywhere else even though they haven’t actually put any real money into the course, and they book tee times about 5-7 minutes apart from each other without a ranger to control start times so you are waiting on every single hole. They have 3 different nines so you would expect there to be plenty of room between you and the other golfers, but no. They jam-pack every nine to the point where you would be lucky to finish in under 6 hours. The course itself is decent, about a 6.5 out of 10. But again when courses no longer care about the experience or the golfer, and they just make it into a cash grab like every other public mediocre course, it ruins the game and makes you not want to play as often as you should be able to. SHAME ON YOU SYCAMORE OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT, YOU HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE “NEW AGE” DOWNFALL OF GOLF. You better be paying your staff a minimum of $20 an hour to make these prices justifiable, and if thats not the case then you should seriously consider a change in CEO. This course and Maple Lane are banned from my play list of courses in the macomb area. I suggest yall boycott it as well to hopefully open their eyes to revert back to what they are worth and to make the game enjoyable again at their course..

Course is actually in pretty good condition. Greens are nice. The only problem is they have 3 9 hole courses. We had a 6:32 tee time playing south to north. Made the turn after playing two hours. They had the north tee box backed up with multiple groups with 8:30-8-40 tee times. . How does that make any sense? They should at least start behind us on the south course or on the west course. Horrible management by the club house.

For the cost to play the course, you would expect better fairways for August. Everything was a mess out there, and every shot was like hitting of hardpan. Not sure what the issue was, but I have played this course for years, and this is by far the worse I have ever seen.

This review is solely for the 9-H of the North Course. I’ve played the West and South which are in better condition, not by much. Still, this is a north course review. Top to bottom: Tee boxes were in very rough condition. The gold tees (tips) card says 3,000. That cannot be true, far less than that. Course/Fairway conditions, terrible. Multiple large areas of dead spots. Their par 5 was converted to a par 3 from the fairway due to overflow from the Clinton River. Which I’ve been told has happened multiple times. Layout is terrible. The rough is a combination of multiple weeds, dead patches and what may be “rough”. Green complexes. Geez. Again multiple dead patches, ball marks, shaggy and poorly cut holes that had the donut effect around them.

I never want to play on that 9 again. Bello Woods is sadly in better condition then that North 9 was. They’ve seemingly invested in a lot of amenities. But definitely not in that north 9 Very disappointed.

8-10 Handicap Golfer.

I had a 6:45 am tee time, the second of the day. The front 9 went very quickly. When we went to the back 9 there were other golfers placed in front of us and the back 9 took much longer, waiting 10+ minutes on each tee. The reason we made a 6:45 tee time was to play the ENTIRE round without waiting on every tee. WE will not be back thinking we will play quickly with a very early tee time.

Took 30 minutes per hole and could not make it past the 5th hole. There were 6 different carts on the 5th hole and we waited 45 minutes before complaining to the ranger. The ranger and staff were extremely disrespectful, condescending, and rude. Gave us rain checks for $52 when the tee-time was $67. The par 5 on south was unplayable. It’s been like that for 3 years. Would not recommend.

The course is nice but very overcrowded. Not sure if I’d have better luck on a weekend or in the morning but they book out twilight tee times, and there were literally 8 people on the tee box for my time. Everyone in front of us was stuck behind someone. Barely finished 9 before dark after I teed off at 6.

I know twilight rates are attractive but if you’re gonna book tee times then why book so many people at the same time. The course seems they could have better control over the pace of play but don’t bother. I won’t be going back for twilight, maybe I will give an earlier tee time a shot someday.

Straight trash. And they’re still charging $67.