- tight, challenging fairways in moderately wooded setting
- concrete tees, though a bit small
- lots of shot variety
- good variety of hole lengths, just slightly on the short side
- Chainstar baskets are basic but serviceable
- benches and garbage cans in various parts of course
- lots of guarded baskets after more open fairways create cool approach challenges
- cool water carry on hole 8, though there wasn't much water during this drought-laden summer
- course has some natural beauty and the iconic Michigan feel with sandy and pine needle soil
- no real notable safety hazards, area is entirely dedicated to disc golf

- mostly very flat
- rough can be pretty brutal and thorny in places
- many tee signs missing, and the remaining ones are rudimentary
- navigation could use some significant work/aids
- a little rough around the edges on upkeep, though grass was mown well enough
- fairly limited amenities
- bugs are extremely thick
- long walk between 8 and 9 seems a bit excessive

LakeShore is an interesting course to rate. On fun factor and potential, I'm tempted to give it a 3.5, but it's not quite there. The tee signs need improvement and replacement, the rough needs some TLC, and navigation aids are sorely needed. Overall, these few things would really make a big difference.

The course is a bit on the short side, but still a typical length. Semi-wooded holes and more open holes with plenty of obstacles of the shrub variety give this course plenty of technical challenge despite the shorter length. The guarded baskets on many holes are a cool touch and really force a good approach shot, rather than a strong drive - I enjoyed this different challenge.

This is a cool course that I enjoyed playing but just feels rough around the edges with the issues noted. With that said, the area is isolated and all for disc golf, which is great. There are a few long walks but nothing too bad. As others noted, there are 3 openings from the parking lot - left to hole 1, center to the exit from 18, and the far right goes to hole 10. It's very nice how holes 1-9 circle back to the parking lot before the back 9 - it allows you to take a break, or in my case, check on my kid sleeping in the car. Apparently 60 holes the day before was a bit much!

There is ample parking and the course was deserted when I arrived at 7 AM on a Saturday morning. The iconic holes for me were in the middle of the course (7-11 kind of range) where you are playing through tighter woods, throwing over the "pond", and playing through sandy areas. Hole 18 is really the monster on this course, one of only two 400+ ft holes that does a dogleg right and has many obstacles in the fairway. A tough but intense way to finish the course.

If you are playing up and down western Michigan, this is a course worth hitting. Not very polished, but still a lot of fun and good challenge for intermediate players and above.

- Lakeshore Disc Golf Complex (LDGC) provides two nine-hole loops to the parking lot on this disc-centric piece of western MI property. Sandy-soiled from nearby Lake Michigan, with an idyllic fern field, fairways comprised of wild blueberry bushes, and more than enough tasty wooded holes to satisfy all but the most demanding and/or fussy discers. Nothing gets super lengthy, rather the holes focus on precision shots to navigate the at times bushy, at times heavily wooded fairways.
- Amenities are a bit thin. Decent concrete tees, benches, enough signage to eke it out; the baskets are fine enough. Bell to ring after one of the blind holes (I think hole #3 or 4).
- Dips and wrinkles of elevation used well throughout, but nothing major to get one's heart aflutter.
- OB garden tiki on #2, IIRC, just to the right of the basket. A fun touch, that would be even more fun if a sign existed to inform you of it, being blind from the pin and all. Hole #10 has a guardian gargoyle on the steps up to the basket, just past the double mando.
- Several of the holes at LDGC looked and felt sorta like mini Flip City-lite with the sumac, et al., others seemed like some LoZ Lost Woods kinda shizz, even others threatened to devolve into a blueberry picking jaunt, and one or two holes (#'s 6-7) gave off an Ichabod Crane vibe. I dunno, maybe it was the isolation, or the fact I was on my 6th course of the day, but I loved the vibes on this course.
- Good mix of distances, though I think it topped off in the mid-400's.

- Navigation got dicey, specifically after hole #8, with a couple of paths to choose from. I'm usually fairly straight-headed in navigating through courses, woods, etc. I was so turned around here it was a bit alarming, heh. Signs help a bit on front nine but disappear complete on the back. Next tee signs are direly needed. There actually could be a risk here of someone just wandering off into some lost screen never to be seen again.

- A good eye went into designing this course, but a little more work towards signage would help the above average golf on hand here really shine.
- Pulling into the lot you'll see three openings: left, center and right (closest to the road). Left is to Hole #1. Center is the egress to the lot after Hole #18. Right is to Hole #10.
- Edit: after reading other reviewers talk of swamp-like and water conditions, I found the course completely devoid of water, although I could see the "pond spot" on #8, for lack of better term. The course did smell kinda funky but was otherwise dry.

LakeShore DGC is an 18-holer nestled just off a main road between Muskegon and Grand Haven, MI.

The pin placement here is very well done. Many of the pins are well protected by trees/bushes, and only a couple of them are a straight shot from the tee. Good variety of open vs. tight fairways, and hyzers vs anhyzers. There is pretty good variation in length too, from 147' up to 420'. The shorter holes generally have significant obstacles between the tee and basket, including a double mando on #10.

The concrete tee pads and Chainstars were all in good shape when I played. Most of the holes also had tee signs with a rough flight path and distance. This type of sign is not my preference but certainly better than nothing, and coupled with a nice course map made it fairly easy to figure out where to throw where the basket isn't visible from the tee.

There are...lawn ornaments? placed on several of the holes for decoration. One hole has a little "garden" next to the green that is playfully marked as OB. This is a fun little touch.

Some of the wooded "fairways" here are so tight that I don't feel there is a reasonable line through.

There isn't a ton of length here overall, and no real "grip it and rip it" type holes. There also isn't much elevation change. The little bit here is used well, but it's not enough to have any impact on most holes.

A couple of things needed maintenance when I played...there is a kiosk with a course map, but the glass protecting it was half-broken and just sitting there. There were also a couple of tee signs missing.

I played around rush hour on a weekday and there was quite a bit of road noise. This detracts from the course experience for me but you might feel differently.

The terrain of this course is what I would call "wooded lowland." When I played, it was September and it hadn't rained at all in over a week to my recollection. There hadn't been a LOT of rain in even longer. The course was dry when we played, but it was clear from the slightly damp low dirt spots in fairways, little bridges the designers built across lowlands, and previous reviews on here that when this course is wet, it's WET. I would bet that after a good rain, or anytime in the spring there are areas of standing water present on almost every hole here. And I bet the bugs are awful at that time too. I'm sure there is a DG'er out there who the water appeals to but I would 100% avoid this course if the area has seen significant rain in the last 3 days, or anytime before June or so here in Michigan. One of the recent previous reviews mentioned a "water carry". When I played, the course had zero water hazards (it's not actually on the "lakeshore" as the name suggests), but I think I know which hole the reviewer was referring to. If the water table were a couple feet higher I bet you could lose a disc in the muck on many of the holes here.

If a few more trees were cleared and the maintenance items were addressed, it's probably a 4.0 course. Beyond that it's limited by the land available.

This isn't a destination course but it's worth a play if you are visiting the area (and the course is dry). I will certainly be back to check it out again, but I might bring my rain boots just in case.

You know those old-school video game RPGs that had a "Water Town" characterized by numerous dinky streams of water you'd navigate by short bridges? Yeah, that's this course.

The course is on a beautiful piece of property that has a very "nature preserve" feel to it. A few holes butt up against some homeowner property but generally it feels very private, isolated, and natural. It's very calming. Numerous streams cut across the property as well as small ponds/puddles.

Pads are all concrete and in nice condition. Length varies, but the short pads are one you're probably throwing a standstill on any way.

Benches present but that's about it. There are some somewhat crude sign posts that give a distance and a line on most holes. They work and are probably 90% accurate.

The course has a feel that it is being worked on, improved and maintained.

Personally I love "S" curve fairways even though it seems like I rarely see them on courses - there are two here! You can throw up to the break or see if you can flex a shot all the way down - love it!

Course was an absolute blast to play. Not sure if it's because I was hitting my lines or what but had a ton of fun throwing here!

Navigation wasn't ideal. Some of the holes have a little distance between them and not much in the way of signage pointing this out. With dead foliage the paths weren't always clear. Additionally, paths were sometimes washed out or flooded.

Brush is thick. Thankfully there doesn't seem to be much in the way of brambles, but the pine and shrubs make anything off the fairway a dicey proposition at best. Couple of times one of us took a stroke to walk out to the fairway when we were only 5' off of the fairway. The shrubs also seem to be made out of some sort of screwunium material because the damn things stop discs dead if you hit one - no flex at all. I can't imagine what this is like in the summer when there's actual foliage.

Some of the fairways are dreadfully narrow and at least a couple are poke-and-hopes. Again, I can only imagine how difficult it would get in the summer when the foliage grows in. They really need to cut back some brush and knock down a few trees. Challenge is good, random is not.

We had a devil of a time navigating the course while keeping our feet dry. Efforts have been made to help with this but the course is damn near "swamp" territory.

The course had a TON of standing water when I played in late November. It's not what I would consider a "wet" season in Michigan nor was there a ton of rain prior to my visit. Judging by the permanent bridges/semi-permanent bridges and fill that's been brought in I have to assume water is a course...feature. I don't think there were two holes where some sort of stream or puddle wasn't on the fairways.

It's hard to say whether this is a pro or a con. It would be a brutal but fun round if you played all water as OB. It's definitely a nuisance to navigate. Either way, it gives the course character and I think there's something to be said in the positive for that. The water isn't really such that you're going to lose a disc (with one exception). It also makes use of some very marginal land that wouldn't be good for a lot of other things I think.

Strangely absent from the other course reviews and description are holes 7 and 8, which bring a small pond into play. 7 asks you to make a dead putt into an elevated basket with the pond a couple of feet behind it. Hole 8 requires a water carry over the pond.

Whoever built the basket tower for 7 did a nice job. It's aesthetically pleasing. I don't like the hole setup though. It more or less demands you lay up because if you run the chains you're going to lose a miss in the pond. Not sure how deep that part of the pond is, but it was dark and cold-looking when I was there. The pond does look like it has a sandy bottom so maybe it's not so bad - I don't really mind a water hazard with easy-to-retrieve conditions. This looked dubious though.

As I mentioned, 8 is a total water carry. It definitely took us by surprise. It's about as kind a water carry as you can ask for The tee is pretty darn close to the shore and it gives you a wide open window for a 120' or so stretch of water. The far shore offers a generous landing zone with only a couple of small pine shrubs to interfere with a short throw. The far side of the pond looked shallow and sandy so if you did end up a little short you weren't going to be punished too bad. Water carries make me nervous, but this is a nice one and doable for most non-beginner players. There were some pink flags on the far side of the pond that is maybe a short tee for players who aren't confident in their ability to clear? Or a drop zone maybe? I don't know.

This was a tough course to rate. I really did have a lot of fun throwing it. If it were based on fun alone I'd probably put this at a 4. There were some real problems I took points off for though.

1. Sharpie signs are effective but the course is old enough for real signs I think. Some of them being missing (particularly on the back 9) also didn't help. Navigational signs probably necessary for a few spots.

2. Fairways need to be pushed out a little bit. There are several that are frankly too narrow for reasonable play. A couple of them really need to be defined more as well, either by cutting trees down or tearing out brush. Some cut paths for finding discs in the rough would have been good.

3. There was at least one spot where there wasn't a path through the water to the next hole (12 or 13 I think). We ended up trying to balance on some very rickety logs to make our way across several spots and at least once somebody stepped into water deep enough to get over the shoe top. I find the water charming, but it needs boardwalks or fill brought in for permanent paths regardless of the water level.

Bottom line, I enjoyed the hell out of it but there's some needed work that needs to be done, and unfortunately it's not the easy or cheap variety. Boardwalks and/or many trucks of fill aren't the easiest thing for a club to swing, but maybe they'll be able to work with the local government to get it done.

Nice baskets.
Challenging lines with great reward for hitting them.
A few really short holes with ace potential.

Tight fairways with heavy, thick rough. Lots of pine trees and thick bushes that catch errant discs.
Poor tee pads on majority of holes but some concrete pads.
Lots of short holes. Longer holes with short landing zone distances.
Muddy in spots.

Was on vacation and this was a close course. Decided to play and didn't overly enjoy it. I enjoyed the challenge of the tight lines but didn't enjoy the rest. Course has muddy, holes for tee pads. Most fairways are lined with thick bushes or pine trees. My Brother lost a disc in those on a drive. Course is designed to hit lines and if you miss you are severely penalized. Hit a tree on a drive and ended up in thick rough and took 4 shots to get back through trees. Not sure you could play this course alone unless you're very accurate. Also, I have a bag full of different discs and felt I only used 3 besides my putter. After my brother lost a disc played rest of course with his putter and ended up slightly above par on back 9 using only his putter for all throws. No holes where you can really unload and launch one. Fun to play a new course, but definitely not rushing back to this one.

Nice disc golf only piece of property is flat, heavily wooded, marshy in places and quite brushy. The locals are working hard with the township trying to get basic improvements. Volunteers were out today pouring a tee pad. I think it would be the seventh concrete pad. Hopefully, with the township building a pond across the street and improving the ditch along the front of the property will improve the wetlands problems.

When completed, the course will be a solid technical recreational course. There are five holes under 200' and only two over 320'. The challenge here will come from the tight fairways. Controlling your drive is of the utmost importance. There is an excellent mix of straight, hysers and annies.

I would have liked this course without such thick rough. I spent 30 minutes (found it) hunting for my drive on # 3 and then the next group after me had to hunt, too. I think this rough will get beat down, broken off and trimmed in time. I know, I did my part this afternoon, breaking off lots of branches.

There is a kiosk with a map, notices (course is closed November 15-31 for deer hunting season) and an old barbecue. Obviously, this is not an urban course here. I've never had to wear hunter's orange before! Some teepads are a natural sandy loam soil while 6-7 concrete ones are in. The dirt ones were fine here in late summer. They might be a little slippery later on. The tee signs are rustic, just a 4" x 4" pole with the hole #, distance and a route drawn on with a Sharpie. I've seen worse signs with less information. The baskets are Chainstars. There are benches on many holes, numerous garbage cans and cans for butts on some signs.

The front and back nines both start and finish at the parking lot which is a recent addition and holds roughly 20 cars.

I liked # 6 with it's cool little anhyser route. The basket back in the woods on # 4 was in a neat placement. # 10 with the double mando is interesting.

The course is currency in it's toddler stage. It'll get better.
Tough course to play by yourself.

Rustic signs.

Dirt pads.

The course must get pretty wet as many little walkways have been placed in places.

# 9 is a 325' S curved hole. A Jeff Brittan has signed his name on the post for Having Aced this hole. Normally, I'd be ragging on him for writing on the equipment but actually I'm pretty impressed here. I'd probably sign the post if I Aced this hole.

I think, when complete, this is will be a nice, average course. Currently, with dirt pads and rustic signs, I'm giving it a 2.0. I'll be glad to come back and increase that to 2.5 when all the pads are poured. And hopefully, the rough is thinned out quite a bit.

Very tight fairways that reward accuracy and punish errant shots. A good amount of turnover shots for RHBH throwers. Can be played very quickly.

Lack of teepads and some tee areas are holes from everyone throwing from the same spot. In need of some love from the disc golf community.

Regardless of not having teepads this is still a fun little course. Well worth playing if you are in the area and under time constraints. I would definitely play it again if I was in town.

Great layout, easy path to follow from hole to hole, cement tee pads are nice. I like the varied lengths of shots. Hardly any elevation. We had a 6 year old playing with us and he was able to play this course well enough.

Rough on hole one is brutal. No bathroom. Only lost on disc with 6 of us playing together.

Enjoyed playing a new course in a new location.

A great replacement for Rycenga. These guys did it right the course looks great and is well maintained by the Lakeshore Disc Golf Club. The park is disc golf only so having another Disc Golf only park in Muskegon county is a great plus.

Lack of elevation and no cement tee pads the rough is slightly unforgiving which is why having proper tee pads is all the more important.

Floods in the spring....

There is still a lot of work to be done but altogether a descent course when playable.

Great use of space and lots of shot style variety. Tons of obstacles which really makes shaping your shorts important.

Rough is ridiculous on almost all of the holes. It is very thick scrubby brush making fairway shots that much more important.

Still needs a lot of work. The course isn't yet a year old so there is still some clearing that could go on.

Tee pads could be much better with rubber, or cement but I have heard that is in the works.

Low land areas throughout the course so when it rains, and in the spring the course holds a lot of water, and the bugs that come with it.

Overall a great course and a perfect replacement for Rycenga Park. Still very new and needs to be broken in more, but having a very technical, yet fun course less than 3 miles from my house is awesome!

Baskets - Nice New baskets.

Park is disc golf only. In some parts it kind of reminded me of being at the beach (sandy dune like areas)

All the holes have set "paths" to find the next hole with some signs and also logs to mark the way.

Tee signs - all have a coffee can for ciggbutts they also have a sharpie drawing that should show how the holes run.

Teepads - natural pads, and the course holds water in some spots which makes for not the best driving.

Tee Signs - They have them, I am marking this as a con, because with better teesign/teepads this course would move up about half a disc.

No Drinking - This is a con and a pro for some, I listed it here, because even thought I am pretty sure you can't drink there because the last course people threw cans all over the place, there were a few still here(reason last spring lake course got pulled)

This place holds water hard. We went after a rain 3 days before and it was still wet.

This place is super fun. A full all around course and an upgrade from what was here (unless you want an easy ace )

This place is very new, and I am sure it will be a lot better within a year or soo, when I played someone was cleaning up the course.

There seemed to be some awkwardly placed bridges throughout the course but it was still a lot of fun and I could see myself coming back here a lot.

Has some interesting tunnel holes through dense lowland forest. Hole 8, a course highlight, opens up across sandy lowlands (resembling a water hazard), with a short tunnel at the end. Many paths are very narrow, resulting in some challenging drives. Many tunnels appear to have been cut through brush with hedgehogs, effectively creating a course where one wasn't possible before.

Parts of the course wind of out lowlands into pine forest on the back nine, with short but fairly tough Coldbrook-like driving lanes. Has some straight paths as well as right and left doglegs and sharp turns. Hole 18 is the longest, a 420 foot tunnel hole through lowland jack pines and brush back to the parking lot.

Buffeted winds and shelter areas should make the course acceptable in inclement weather, provided there isn't too much rainwater. Has a number of signs that help navigation, but the tee signs are very basic with distance and hole layout information.

Sunday league play at 1PM appears to be popular and well-organized. Free course!

Massive potential for disc loss, from the very first hole though most of the lowland holes. Brush and tall grass leads to frequent disc searching. The brush is so thick in some places that you can be right on top of a disc and not see it. Marshy lowlands on several holes are still wet after other area courses (such as Whitehall) are dry.

Poor tee pads for the most part, though the distances needed for most of the drives make this a minor issue.

Many tire tracks and sawed-off stumps create walking hazards. Course is closed during rifle season (11/15 to 12/1), with hours restricted to 10AM to 4PM during bow season.

This is a sorely-needed addition to help the relative lack of courses in the Muskegon/Grand Haven area. Course is on the south side of Wilson Rd., (Muskegon/Ottawa county line) just west of Grand Haven Road, south of Pontaluna Rd.

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-high fun factor
-great design. There are some really high quality holes. Designers did a great job when designing.
-course is fair to all types of throwers
-signature holes present on this course that makes it unique

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-overgrown
-new
-very easy to lose discs
-lacks good signs
-lacks cement or comparable tee pads
-lacks trash receptacles
-lacks huge distance holes

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This course has high potential for a better score in the future. I also plan on playing the course as it gets worn in.
It had a high fun factor and there were some really good holes.
Some of the holes had robert morris, three rivers, and even idlewild characterstics. These are just some courses that some of these holes reminded me of.
As of now its very rough. To easy to lose discs even a foot off the fairway. When it gets thinned out it will be an easy 3.5 rated course.
A great addition to Northern Michigan disc scene!

Aesthetic-- plays through marshy area that has a past as a 4-wheeler area. Area now seems to be a dg exclusive area.

Teesigns-- basic, but shows basic layout of hole and footage which seem accurate.

Routing and nav-- there are a LOT of cross trails out here, the only tricky spot was 17-18 for me... but "next tee" posts were plentiful.

Baskets-- new ChainStars but could really use some reflective tape to help aide in visibility.

Challenge/Variety-- challenge here comes in the way of VERY thick scrub which lines the fairways. there is a "lake" on #8 which I'm sure is more wet during rainy times. When I was there, it was dry (save for a few mud puddles). A fair balance of lefts rights, longer and shorter holes... the short holes are TIGHT and don't really seem like short holes at all.

Teepads-- I'm sure that these will get better with the addition of rubber teepads (planned) but for now they are very rutty and have roots and other trip hazards.

Signage-- I am hoping the signage will improve with time. for now it serves it's purpose but could be much better.

Baskets-- I'm pretty sure that these are recycled baskets from rycenga and some have the wrong numbers on them.

Future wetness issues-- this area is LOW LOW, I'm sure it's gonna be muddy and buggy when the weather is a bit wetter and in the spring. I'm sure that this course will be a blast in the winter.

So glad that Muskegon has a respectable course again. I mean Whitehall is close but this is closer.

Benches at a lot of the holes. fairly easy to navigate. front nine and back nine both end at parking lot so you can play a quick nine if you only have time for nine. fairly challenging you have to really shape some of your shots in order to try and stay in the fairway. good mix of long and short holes. There is a pond on hole 8 that you have to shoot across. during a dry period the pond goes away.

rough can get hide your disc really well but that is getting better as more people play the course. some of the fairways are a little rough with the ruts from 4 wheelers that used to travel the property. could be a problem with bugs i didn't experience any but might get worse in spring and summer.

I almost walked past the tee for 6 and 17 the post is right by the turn almost didn't see it. Overall I really like this course. I am glad that the Lakeshore Disc Golf Club was able to get Spring Lake township to approve a replacement course location for Rycenga. Course will only get better as more people begin to play it. I also like the security camera posted on the telephone pole in the parking lot. Scorecards are located on the back of the Kiosk sign before hole 1.