This course plays much bigger than you'd expect for a nine-holer. The tee boxes are a packed dirt/gravel mix, nicely sized, well framed and generally level. Each tee box has a post with hole number, footage, hand drawn hole layout, and a trash bucket.

Tee and basket placements are both interesting and challenging, with right, left, and "S" lanes, narrow tree-lined holes, and a couple mostly wide open holes. I love that the wooded holes were short while the open holes were longer, as it should be for maximum fun and minimum frustration. The shortest holes are under 200', while the longest is over 500'.

In addition, the course makes great use of regular/frequent elevation changes, and water comes into play on 1 hole at low water levels, and likely 2 during wet seasons.

Even in its infancy, we only had to search around for 1 tee box - everything else was fairly obvious, and the course flowed really well.

Dayhuff Lake and the Colfax Township Campground is just down the road, so there's easy access to camping, swimming, fishing, toilets, and a playground.

The course is very new and we played it while there was still some snow on the ground. A couple of the paths between holes need some cleaning out and delineation. Footing on some fairways was very rough, but I expect it will even out as the course gets used and trodden-on.

Even as a nine hole course, with the elevation changes on every hole and the rough footing, a couple of benches would be well appreciated.

I generally skip 9 holers, but I'm really glad we played this one. Despite being very new and a little wild, the elevation changes, bit of water, hole design, and inexpensive but well done amenities, this was a total joy to play. I highly recommend a round here if you're in the Cadillac area - it's way more fun than Kenwood, without the frustration factor of Diggins Hill for those that don't have an arm.