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2.9
706 Reviews (706)
5 Stars
86
4 Stars
227
3 Stars
175
2 Stars
94
1 Stars
124
Conditions
2.6
Value
3.2
Layout
3.5
Friendliness
4.0
Pace
3.4
Amenities
3.2
54.7%
Recommend this course
424 out of 706 reviews
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3.0
8 Reviews (8)
5 Stars
1
4 Stars
3
3 Stars
0
2 Stars
3
1 Stars
1
Conditions
2.5
Value
3.5
Layout
4.1
Pace
3.5
Amenities
3.7
StaffFriendliness
4.3
50.0%
Recommend this course
4 out of 8 reviews
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2.6
53 Reviews (53)
5 Stars
6
4 Stars
8
3 Stars
13
2 Stars
11
1 Stars
15
Conditions
2.3
Value
3.0
Layout
3.4
Pace
3.2
Amenities
3.1
StaffFriendliness
3.9
45.3%
Recommend this course
24 out of 53 reviews
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Course Highlights
The course layout earns consistent praise for its well-placed traps, water hazards, and challenging yet fair design across all 18 holes. Staff friendliness stands out strongly, with welcoming and personable service noted by many recent visitors.

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Holes 18
Type Public
Par 71
Length 6580 yards
Slope 119
Rating 71.0
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Oak Ridge - Old Oaks
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Course Details

Year Built 1965
Fairways Blue Grass
Greens Blue Grass
Golf Season Open: 4/01 Closed: 11/30

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - $6 - $14
Pull-carts Yes
Caddies No
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discover Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes

Food & Beverage

Snacks

Available Facilities

Clubhouse
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Reviews

2.9
706 Reviews (706)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 11
Course Challenges Include:
Water Hazards 18
Bunkers 12
Narrow Fairways 12
This course/club is great for:
Locals 16
Beginners 13
Seniors 11
This Course's Location is:
Worth the Drive 13
Convenient to the City 9
In the 'Burbs 7

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Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
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Neglected

Could be a very nice course... if they didn't neglect it. Poor fairways, tee boxes, rough. Greens were good.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Beginner
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

5 STARS Best course around

by far my favorite place to play. Very friendly staff, I took my son with me and they made him feel so comfortable and he told me that it was so far his best experience golfing. The staff is what made it great for us other than an awsome course to play on. Definitely going to be playing there alot

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 17
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Course Destroyed

They have a water issue. They can not water any of the course. It is destroyed. I have never seen sod have cracks in it before. The fairways are so bad you sometimes had to move your ball 10' just to get on a 1" piece of grass. Tee boxes are just as bad. Hard to put a tee in the ground. I realize that this mishap is not the cause of the owners but they sure should have told the golfers before they made their reservations. They are also now charging $10.00 for a second cart where before riding separate was a safety for Covid19. Very troubling that they keep this info from the golfer until they show up.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Fair
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 168
Handicap 15-19
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 250 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Hope they win the law suit

It is a shame that the building being erected across the expressway tapped into this golf courses water and has taken almost all of it. The "Old Oaks" is in horrible shape because of the no water situation. LAW SUIT!!!

Eight weeks ago the course was in good shape. We will come back and support the owners though.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
First Time Playing

Save your money

Please, and i cannot express this enough, for the the love of god save your money and don’t golf this course. This is easily the worst course I have ever played in the metro Detroit area and frankly isn’t even close. Their fairways don’t even exist.

They should be paying me $43 to play their course instead do the other way around. Absolute highway robbery.

The greens are at least in good enough condition but the rest of the course? Yikes. The fairways are cracked in multiple spots where the DIRT (not grass) is not connected to the ground. The tee boxes are clearly not moved or treated. Just hit wherever there’s actually grass on the Par 3s

Never again. I don’t care if Marsh Oaks is in better condition the fact that they even allow people to spend money at Old Oaks is the reason I will never even give Marsh Oaks a try. They don’t deserve my money.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Terrible Course. Terrible Value.

Having played the Old Oaks course a few years ago and enjoying it, I figured we'd give Marsh Oaks a try, which was supposed to be Oak Ridge's tougher and overall superior links course.

Long story short, this course is one of the worst in Michigan and the condition is embarrassing. Uncut and overgrown tee boxes, burned out and horribly damaged fairways, massive potholes in the the parking lot and the cart paths throughout the course. Golf carts that are never wiped down or cleaned that are sticky and reek of spilled beer. Bad greens with certain areas that are cracked from being so dry. Areas in the middle of fairways where the grass is burnt out right next to another area where there is standing water in a muddy swamp. Very bizarre course that is horribly maintained. Parts of the Marsh Oaks border the Old Oaks and the Old Oaks is in even worse shape. The entire course is brown and the fairways have hardly any grass on them. Embarrassing condition.

Nowhere near worth $57.00. $14.00 would be more appropriate. The people who run this course ought to be lambasted for charging these rates for such a terrible product. If my front yard grass looked like their fairways, I'd probably be contacted by the blight removal program.

In Michigan during the summer we have ideal conditions to maintain a beautiful green golf course with appropriate drainage, watering, and maintenance. There is no excuse for how Oak Ridge is. To charge nearly $60.00 for a round of golf on a municipal track is a ballsy move to begin with, but you'd expect the course to be fantastic with an emphasis on the course conditions. Rather it was embarrassing. There are courses very close geographically to this one that are half the price and three times as good. Avoid Oak Ridge unless you want to be terribly disappointed and leave feeling ripped off.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Over priced. TERRIBLE condition

$43 to play the oaks. Course is horrible conditions. Tee boxes are 100% dead grass, fairways are dead. I’d expect this for a $15 green fee, but around here $43 will get you on majority of courses that are FAR better. Go somewhere else.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
2.0
First Time Playing

Great staff but the course was lacking

Course was in horrible shape; dry, dead grass on fairways and greens were dry and hard. Staff was extremely nice. Play was a little slow due to several leagues.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
3.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played

Disappointed

i haven't played the Marsh in 10 years and I was quite disappointed with the condition the course was in.....I guarantee you that I will not be back as a customer, certainly not worth the green fee that I paid.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Amenities Fair
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Commented on 08/02/2020

Wholeheartedly agree except my review was 1-star! Inexcusable conditions and the price they charge is both laughable and bewildering for such a neglected and dilapidated golf course.

Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 3
5.0
Previously Played
Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 40
Handicap Don't know
Skill Beginner
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Hot weather
Used cart

Not blown away

Everything was just ok. Sand traps were full of water though Not a real playable course. If your not in control off ;the tee you will have problems. A little pricey for what it is.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0

Bad experience

The courses tee boxes were hard dirt for the white stakes. You had to struggle to put the tee into the ground. Fairways and rough were pretty much the same, a lot of dirt and dead grass. Poor conditions overall.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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