The Course
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.”
RON WHITTEN, GolfDigest.com