Michigan Golf Journal November 2021

21 November 2021 www.michigangolfjournal.com spacious, so if you’ve been waiting all day to let it rip, that’s the hole to do so – a par 5 and you’re all warmed up by then. A good improvement to the enjoyment of playing at Pine Hollow would be an aggressive tree trimming program by ownership soon; not necessarily tree cutting, but serious tree trimming. In online surveys the course gets a 4.1 out of 5 rating. I agree with the reviewers that it’s fun and attractive with its rolling landscape, and it’s not overly crowded. But I also agree with one reviewer that said the fairways need to be mowed more often – yet, in a weird way they still seemed to roll out pretty well under the early autumn conditions. The back 9 has more character than the front (which borders the freeway) in its routing and land features. No. 15 is a beautiful long downhill par 4 lined with pines, and 17 is a drivable par 4 downhill if you keep the ball way to the right and let the steep slope take your ball toward the large green. And remember, when you get to 18 tee, let it rip. MGJ