Not a new course post, but Michigan related. Sorry if it doesn't belong here.
I noticed Brewer wasn't on my courses played list even though it was like the fifth or sixth course I ever played. I called up all the extinct versions and the oldest ones listed are the four color 9-hole loops that existed probably the last time I was there 15 years ago or so. There wasn't a listing for just the original 18 with those old Mach II's, so I clicked "course played" for red and blue because I think that's the closest thing.
I seem to remember having to get there before noon to beat the crowds, and hearing Metallica blasting from more than two cars simultaneously in the always filled parking lot. When I moved to East Lansing in 1995, you had Grand Woods, Fitzgerald (with the old bike cable baskets!), Hudson Mills Original, Brewer, Johnson, Cold Brook, Beauty and the Beast and that was about it unless you made it to Detroit and played Addison Oaks, Firefighters and Wagner. My how times have changed. (I always thought of Madeline Bertrand as an Indiana course being 1 mile or so north of the border).
I encountered Chuck DeVries at VIRA when it was brand new and he said he played Brewer when it was a post course in the late seventies. That would be one of my time machine destinations for sure!