Downriver Golf Course

I showed up at 3 o’clock asked if they had a walk on tee time they told me not tell 5:15 so we grabbed 2 large bucket of balls for the range and paid for 2 people 9 holes “105 dollars”they told us to come back at the club house so we show up the guy at the front was super rude told us that we would be lucky to golf there and there’s no available tee times tell 6:30 told him I paid already said I don’t remember you I asked for bob who was awesome and helped us the first time he said well what do u want me to do you’re lucky to be here was being so rude and disrespectful I told him I wanted to get what I paid for he made a huge scene and told me to talk to the marshal at hole 1 but good luck I walked away furious talked to the Marshall he said we are wide open tell the men’s league in 45 minutes go ahead and tee off. I live 2 blocks away and have been golfing there for 10 years and never have been treated this way there were regulars sitting in the lounge who said he is always like. I’ve spent at least 10k at this place not to mention my friends and loved it until now.bob and the Marshall were awesome on Tuesday 8/18 at 5 o’clock the other employee at the golf shop was not and needs reminded this is a public golf course and to treat everyone with respect

HUGE thank you to the team out Downriver GC. We had a large group and we thought we had booked 3 tee times in the AM but something happened with the City (we think) and our tee times disappeared. We had zero options because all local courses were booked and we were playing an additional 18 that afternoon. This is an annnual weekend event with friends coming from various parts of the country and it would’ve been a bummer to miss out on golf. Downriver worked hard to get us all out for 9 holes in the morning and out ahead of a big tournament. Thanks again!

Course was in good shape and the staff was pleasant enough, but the bathrooms on course are some of the grossest I've ever seen. I mean, like really terrible. Also, the directions to each tee box are not clearly marked.

First the good. The course was in nice shape, the location is lovely, the terrain and holes are interesting, the price is reasonable. Lots of potential here for a really fun day of golf. But... the pace of play was SLLOOOWWWW. There were sometimes five groups stacked up at par 3's. There was no marshal or course staff to be seen to help keep things moving. The group directly in front of us was especially slow because "we are playing for money" so took their time with every shot... every putt.... you'd have thought I was watching the US Open play out in front of me. I'd pay the bets off if it meant keeping them moving. It isn't much fun to wait minutes for every shot you take. Bottom line, nice course but get somebody out there in a cart to watch what's going on. There were multiple people working the pro shop. Send one of them out to monitor pace of play. There was a starter working at the first tee box so you have the idea but that is where it all ended.

The city needs to investigate the way they run things here. It is the good ol boys club and they run the tee times off the books. I booked a tee time online for a solo filling in with a twosome. When I got there and paid I went over to the starter and his sheet moved me alone at a 4 minute interval teatime that doesn’t exist. I couldn’t go because the tee time I booked had 5 now. The guys in the 5some said “We do this every day bud figure it out”. They would not answer the starter. Meanwhile every tee time left with five to six people until I got plugged in later now as a magical 5. After that on hole 2 that has 15 people on it because of how they get all their buddies out each morning. They start driving by everyone because there a high school tournament starting. They say “ya’ll better play fast today” to every group before even starting. The people that run the tee times definitely hook their large group up with whatever they want each day and create chaos.