Nice and challenging track. Well maintained with good facilities. Pin placement was a bit…read morequestionable, probably the most difficult i've encountered. Overall a great experience.

Beautiful course with a couple of quirky holes. Grounds crew…read moredoes an awesome job maintaining this golf course.

Fantastic golf lessons from Dan Hurlbutt! Dan is very skilled at identifying one or two…read morefoundational issues with your swing and explaining them clearly. Once corrected, everything else seems to fall into place. This truly helped my game and my confidence.

GREAT GOLF LESSONS AT HAWK HOLLOW! Can't say enough about…read morewhat an insightful instructor Dan Hurlbutt is! He has the expertise to figure out what you need to do better, and he has the skill to tell you how to do it. Golf lessons with Dan are a fun and positive experience. Highly recommend!

Called for a tee time and booked us at the wrong golf course somehow that's nearby…read more Also driving range is closed

This is a review focused solely on its golf course and associated features. I have seen Timber…read moreRidge in various conditions over the years, and am happy there is a formidable new owner to tune up the great bones that is already there. I have concerns the Hawk Hollow Property courses could become complacent with lack of competition, and so far I am seeing indicators this is happening. Flat out, the course is not ready for play at its current rates, in its current condition. I have played a hand full of rounds in this short season out there, and the course just has a very disjointed feel to it. Not course conditions alone, the entire experience is cringeworthy for me. The bag drop area is at the least convenient/practical/sensible location possible. If this were a private club, i may understand it, but there is still traffic flow issues when more than 1 car are there. I use bag drops, many people don't...I can not use yours. Along with this awkward setup, the cart staff needs to do a better job if they are a part of the cumbersome process. I had 1 outstanding staffer walk over to my car to grab bags, advise on availability and where to go, set our cart up and continue to be available for other requests before our round. She was exceptional, and earned her due. Every other round started with zero assistance and ended with the obligatory club clean attempt...on already clean clubs. Missed the opportunity to get me a wet towel prior to round, which is what i use. I will reserve final judgement on the Pro Shop being upstairs....BUT it seems to make absolutely no sense for a public course to be so separated from the course and so central to the clubhouse. I see a lot of benefits for having a splashy Pro Shop, but their better sister properties get along just fine with practical. I want to love the course and its entire experience, or i will just go down the road, which is exactly what they need to avoid. Either crank the course up and make it all exceptional, or soften everything and make it friendly, but some sort of identity is needed.

We played 9 holes and the staff early in the morning were great and friendly, including…read more accommodating and asked about discounts. The price was good with the carts and the course was beautiful. Lots of flowers and foliage to enjoy. The greens were maintained and running fine. Rooster tails on a few, but it was early and the dew was deep. Nice pace and allowed a faster golfer pass to through. A fun time.

The golf course is beautiful, well established and well maintained. Golfers have a chance to play…read morein a relaxed and enjoyable manner. There are benches for resting at each hole and many carts for rental. Employees are accommodating and courteous. Rates are very reasonable.

Greens are country club great and course was fun. Quick play and nice people running it. Will…read moredefinitely play there again. I'm

Great prices for walking! Super friendly staff and easy to get tee times. The course is generally…read moretaken care of well, very few issues with greens and tee boxes.

Great Course. Best of the University courses. Great pro shop and greeting staff, course is in great…read morecondition, which I expected being that Michigan State has a large Turf Program. Groundscrew does an amazing job.

I golfed the West course last month. It was absolutely great to be back on campus, taking…read moreadvantage of yet another amazing thing Michigan State University has to offer. Forest Akers West is the nicer of the two courses, and is the one used by the MSU golf teams for competition. The course is beautiful and very well kept. It consistently ranks as one of the best college golf courses in the nation. It's challenging, but a ton of fun to play. The clubhouse, attached to the University Club, has tons of great MSU golf apparel, including some with the popular golfing Sparty logo. I couldn't control myself and walked out with way too much stuff! Visiting East Lansing and golfing here every summer is going to be a new tradition with my Dad.

I am visiting East Lansing from Houston TX. My best friend and her husband decided to arrange a…read moregolf outing for us and her assistant. I was super excited as I had only been golfing once before for a charity event. We arrived right on time for our tee time,( please excuse me if I get some of the terminology wrong - newbie lol), grabbed a couple assorted beverages, some snacks( nothing fancy as y'all's concession stand was closed - so we grabbed some candy and chips . Paid for our little 9 rounds and went on our way. Now as we made our way down to what we assumed were our carts ( no one working the counter where we paid mentioned anything to us at all), after a few minutes we decided these were ours. Spent a little while getting shoes and what not changed, drinks placed around, and clubs secured. It was right as were were beginning that one of our employees - yelled across the way to us loudly that we needed to get moving because we were late getting to our first round. We quickly moved ahead and proceeded to chat, laugh, have a good time and enjoy enjoy each other's company. One of the women in our group was trying to explain to us what club to use and stuff like that. We decided that we were going to stop at about 4 turns each at max because we didn't want to get caught up etc- and that we would let others play around if we needed. Well little did we know y'all were actually timing us !! As the young gentleman who so condescendingly told us we spent 23 mins on the hole - and the time should have been 15 mins. I am curious as to the time for the group ahead of us? Do you time everyone( how do you determine who to time )? This young man then proceeded to speak in such an offensive tone told us " I don't want to have to come back out here but I will if I have to..."( there was some other various gems he also shared )... he then drove off. Our group stared at each other for a few minutes just in shock at what had happened. I have never once felt so disrespected, uncomfortable , and awkward in my life. We all decided we would leave- and walk away from the money we had JUST paid. Y'all turned a gun and exciting afternoon into a miserable and awkward experience I will never forget. Please refresh me- who designed the course ? Was it Dye, Nicklaus .... Or wait- must have been Palmer???

It's a beautiful course but douche management. I've tried this course a few times and I've had an…read moreawful experience every time. The first time I didn't leave a review however we were on the first hole, barely parked off the cart path and some man came about screaming about staying on the cart path. This time I brought me almost 2 year old and had in strapped to me the man came out and told me I need to be careful with a baby..(no shit) and most people call ahead and they save no. Not a family friendly course Not friendly management. I would not recommend this course to anyone

Beautiful greens and friendly staff. We will definitely be doing this again when passing though!read more

Conditions are always awesome and the course is hands down the best putting course I have been on,…read moreand I have played five others of the top of my head all around the country. What I like is that the holes are realistic, as opposed to most other courses that turn it into mini-golf. These are putts you will have on a real golf course, so it enables golfers to actually work on their putting and for non-golfers to have a good time as well. The one thing I will caution people about are the inevitable idiots who will play this course. Whether it's a group of six players who take twenty minutes to play a hole because they are God awful and socialize in between putts or the obnoxious drunks who purchase a cooler of beer to play a course that should take you an hour and 15 minutes to play, tops, you can guarantee that there will be plenty of oblivious people playing this course. Fortunately, the golf shop staff is more than accommodating if you have an issue with other groups. Despite the many frustrating rounds I have had out here, you cannot expect the golf staff to know just how ignorant the customers will be, so this is a five-star in my book.