Whispering Willows Golf Course (USA) - Review + Pics

I had an opportunity to visit Motor-city Detroit, MI for work reasons last week.
On the Friday aftn, while my colleagues were out drinking Budlites, i excused myself and drove to a nearby public golf course in Livonia, MI - Whispering Willows

This is a Par-70 course and relatively flat to play with some scenic holes, it is located along 8-mile junction (made famous after the movie and "Lose Yourself" song by singer Eminem)  

Rental clubs - $15
18holes - $20
Trolley - $3

Enjoy!



Club-House in nice summer weather



Driving Range - practice off grass or mat


Toughest hole on the course, Par 4 390yrds


FW is nicely cut with rough



One of the interesting Par-3
Tee-box on the far left, green on uphill extreme right, need to hit a nice soft draw to find green


No half-way houses, but a SYT will go round in a cart selling Cokes Zeros, beers or Vitamin water


walking back to the club house, i saw this logo on the tarmac, maybe it means this is a level -1 simple PGA certified course

Very nice!

Thanks for sharing!

thanks for sharing  

love the prices man...

I like SYT and beer!

Thanks for sharing, Ralph. 

Beautiful weather some more. 

How many PGA levels are there? Got to do this oso when I go to US nx time.

@ Dye:SYT is Sweet Young Thing lah, Sexy or not i dunno, it is subjective!!  
 
@Bee: yeah weather was good. I didnt have clubs or golf shoes, so crazily i went back to hotel change into berms and track shoes and drove to the course hoping to get lucky. Indeed they rented me a set of Wilsons and i bought a cheap glove and a box of cheap balls n play liao!! The club gave me a free divot tool n marker so thats a nice touch!!

ralphlim wrote:

@ Dye:SYT is Sweet Young Thing lah, Sexy or not i dunno, it is subjective!!  
 
@Bee: yeah weather was good. I didnt have clubs or golf shoes, so crazily i went back to hotel change into berms and track shoes and drove to the course hoping to get lucky. Indeed they rented me a set of Wilsons and i bought a cheap glove and a box of cheap balls n play liao!! The club gave me a free divot tool n marker so thats a nice touch!!

 Sweet is good enough, thanks for the clarification, hahaha

thanks for sharing...one question is there any PGA certified course locally?

$20 dollar... for 18 holes... so cheap..

not sure about locally, i guess so since most clubs follow the USGA handicapping system

This course is Level 1, indicated as "Family Tee"
maybe if you go to Bethpage Black or Merion, you will see a Level 10 icon with the words "For Professional" only

Great courses in US..

Played in a public course in Pittsburg, the guy thought I was a uni student and charged me $8 student rate... 

Where to get.....?  

Reminds me of Cinnabar Hills in San Jose. Great public course.