Pilgrim's Run Golf Club

Great course in so many ways. Just unfortunate that there were too many divots on most of the fairways and no mechanism to “repair” any of them as a golfer.

Pilgrims Run is one of the best maintain courses I have played, love the holes creativity, beautiful scenery, new upgrades to pro shop, overall great golfing experience.

Heard about this course through a golf website and they only said good things. Drove a little over an hour to play it for myself and was blown away. This course was very fun to play, had a mix of challenging holes as well as getable holes. The green complexes are great and pins were in some tough and fun spots. Course was pure and was a blast to play. Highly recommend and I will be back again.

PACE: It was a busy day, but the course moved well.

CONDITIONS: Tees, fairways, bunkers and greens all perfect!

STAFF: Friendly and helpful. Really helped improve my experience there.

VALUE: Save some $ because I walked. Hearing from other golfers this place has raised its greens fees considerably in recent years.

LAYOUT: Each hole is its own experience. Though the course is tree lined, the underbrush is cut far back enough to allow you to find your ball/try a hero shot. You can walk this course, but there is some distance between a few holes on the front 9.

Even the deer really are friendly. Even the birds. A young one flew to our cart, wanting help with sand in his right eye. Pics cuz it did happen

First - Pilgrims Run is arguably the nicest public course in west Michigan. Gorgeous layout where you feel like you’re the only person out there. Conditions were excellent and greens ran fast and smooth. Club house staff was very friendly.

My only issues will sound picky. For $65-90 for $18 (depending on time of day) I have a few basic expectations. Some of these greens were almost unplayable due to the amount of trees debris on them. I know maple spinners etc fall quickly but a few greens were so covered you couldn’t putt with any sort of accuracy. They could blow them off with a tow behind blower a few times a day and it would be fine. Many local courses in west Michigan have invested in gps on carts or at least upgraded carts. As the most expensive public round in the area the fact the carts have NO amenities is frustrating. No liquor and very limited food options which is not new but always disappointing. Lastly and this is really dumb but the new scorecards stink. No hole layouts with no gps is a double negative. No course information at all. It’s like someone decided let’s maintain a beautiful course yet take out any sort of amenities on anything. It’s too beautiful to give it less than a 4.5 out of 5 but come on Pilgrims. If you charge a premium rate then give a premium experience.

The course was in beautiful shape and very playable with ample fairways ans large consistent challenging greens. The ranger kept the pace of play decent for a holiday weekend. We will definitely play this course again.

I love this course. I have been living north of GR for years and I enjoy everything about the golf at this course. Well maintained, challenging, true greens, awesome layout, etc. But year after year the rates go up. I get it, people will pay the money but $90 for a round of golf is egregious. I think the spring rate of $75 is fair but $90 is insane. Its not specific to Pilgrims Run either courses all over the area (and state) have added $15-$50 to rounds since I've started living here 4 years ago. Im glad to see more people golfing but the price hikes make it difficult to even try to make it out to a course you love to play. If you are not worried about the price then this is a must play in West Michigan.

Great course. Challenging greens with lots of undulations. Very challenging to short game.

Was having major surgery in just a few days and I wanted to play one of my favorites before going under the knife. I have played almost 180 courses in Michigan alone and Pilgrims Run is easily in my top 5 favorites. Well maintained, great routing, friendly great Pro, and in a beautiful setting !! really enjoyed myself and can't wait until spring when I return. Thanks Pilgrim's Run!!
Bob Forberg
Muskegon

This course was a beautiful design and the place of play was fine. Played in the afternoon, so time was of the essence for completing 18 holes.
We each (3 golfers) paid for our rounds with carts and each took a cart to play. On the 10th tee, an employee approached to tell us that we were not allowed to have 3 carts and would have to give up cart for the remainder of the round. I asked we this was and got a lame excuse that it was "policy" and was told "you should have booked an earlier tee time if you were worried about completing 10 holes." After that the same employee decided to drive by us several times while members of my party were swinging, creating enough distraction that I won't be playing here again.