The Chief

This course can be a challenge. The course was in very good condition for this time of year. Greens were mowed well but leaves were all over - bring a blower!

But was fairly unforgiving if your shot veers to the right or left. The rough falls off to out of bounds with very little reprieve on many of the holes

Beautiful course, challenging and well conditioned.

Definitely a course I would recommend

Beautiful challenging golf course!! Very scenic with woods and elevated views. Fairways and green were in great shape, tee boxes were a little rough. Staff was very friendly. Would differently recommend to friends. It’s a got to play up north course!!!

This is the second time I’ve played this last being 8 years ago and now I remember why. It is tight, steep, tough to walk around even with a cart. Several steep hills while driving to each tee.

Its in great shape as it doesn’t get a lot of play. Most golfers in the area are retirees and I can see them having difficulty especially if they have knee problems or they are not in great shape.

Cart was slow but they must gear them down because of steep slopes. Im a 10 handicap and struggled. Not a fun course. I couldn’t wait to finish after 12 holes. Sorry but it’s exhausting.

Very nice course and layout. Fairly busy and beautiful saturday in late august. Great staff. Incredible bbq dinner at nest after. Nest packed out for dinner. Fun.

All that said, 6-some in front if us and 5-some in front of them. Five other groups playing scramble and brutally slow. Even some of the twosomes were terribly slow. Would have been a six hour round but played thru a couple of the groups (with tudes!!) and skipped two holes and got done in 4:40.

My wife and i are mid 60s, so it’s the pot calling the kettle old…but don’t know if i want to play any shanty courses on the weekend. Not worth the risk of an all-day round.

It’s simple…GET a RANGER out there with a CATTLE PROD!! No ranger anywhere!!

A true shotmakers course. Tough, but fair. Fantastic elevation changes and scenery. Bring extra balls if you tend to slice or hook. Add at least 6 strokes to what you expect to shoot. Take care in selecting the right tee box to suit your game. After the round, enjoy the selection of beer and excellent food at The Nest right on property.

With a slope of 139, The Chief is a test of your skill set, and use of most every club in the bag. It rewards good shots, and penalizes almost anything errant. A truly beautiful up north golf experience. And, great food and drink at The Nest right on property. Oh, and bring extra balls.

We played this course last year for the first time and I thought it was a little bit tracked up. It’s really quite an odd layout you have to drive literally a quarter mile to the first hole and then when you make it back to the clubhouse at the turn you have to drive darn near half mile to the 210 T. The main reason we came back was because we enjoyed ourselves tremendously at Dunmaglas on Wednesday. We like the mountain club courses, but this does not really compare to Dan McGrath’s Dunmaglas

Course conditions are pretty good and we got a great rate of $37 each on a Thursday which as well we did it for but the price was so good And it wasn’t really slow. It’s just it’s so weird driving all over up and down mountains and dirt roads and and if the parking brake goes bad you’re screwed here also but we had a good time it was hot we scored OK it doesn’t really matter enjoyed ourselves and they’re smaller screens here if you don’t get them on the green, they’re gonna roll off and down into the woods. It’s kind of tricky, but get your butts up there to Dunmaglas

Shannon Creek Summit looks awful Shanty Creek you’re dumb in Kalkaska today playing twin birch not Murch birch and this is flat compared to what we just played the last couple days. OK I guess that’s about it yes go and play the chief and see what you think but if your idea of driving up and down dirt car, Passin in the woods and, that kind of thing then go for it specially, for that price but I would pay no 75 bucks or anything like that no way Jose I don’t think we’re gonna play it again. I said that last year but I mean at this time just tripped up until weird.

The course was in good shape. The course is difficult. Very tight. I hit a lot of long irons off the tee.