Diamond Springs Golf Course

Hamilton, Michigan July, 2002

Diamond Springs is an affordable public golf course between Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Holland in southwestern Michigan. It brings back traditional golf values of walking, shot-making, and lay-of-the-land architecture. Set amongst open grassy fields and mature hardwoods, the landscape is broken apart by several distinct "finger ridges" (each of which is 10-15 feet high) and by a twenty foot deep ravine with a meandering stream in the bottom that serves as the main feature of six holes, #9 and holes 14 through 18.

"The final five holes encounter the ravine again and again. The 168-yard 14th plays at an angle across it. The 300-yard 15th doglegs to the right around a bend of the ravine, enticing big hitters to fire directly at the green. The rest of us must carefully negotiate a drive to stay atop a humpbacked fairway and avoid big oaks. Fifteen is a classic natural golf hole.
. . . What the 375-yard 18th lacks in length, it makes up in severity. The hole doglegs to the right, with the ravine in play off the tee and to the right of the green. These five holes may not match the five-hole quarry hole stretch at Florida's Black Diamond, but among $25 golf courses, they're as thrilling as it gets. They make Diamond Springs a genuine gem.”
From Ron Whitten’s review of Diamond Springs on GolfDigest.com.

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