East at Gull Lake View Golf Club and Resort
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About
Gull Lake View Golf Club, southwest Michigan's oldest and largest golf resort, offers five scenic championship courses that play across Michigan's beautiful lake region. Gull Lake View East is the second of the five courses at the club. Opened in 1973, the golf course has a classic design that has a longstanding reputation of being one of Michigan's finest layouts. Charles Scott, who designed several courses in the area including most of Gull Lake's, designed the course. He carefully incorporated the natural terrain, utilizing the elevation changes and natural water features. Water comes into play on 10 holes and the undulating greens rarely provide a flat lie. Accuracy and careful shot placement are a necessity. Gull Lake is conveniently located within three hours of Detroit, Toledo, and Chicago and it is only about an hour from Grand Rapids and Lansing.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | 70 | 6059 yards | 68.8 | 124 |
| White | 70 | 5549 yards | 67.6 | 119 |
| Gold | 70 | 5181 yards | 65.3 | 116 |
| Orange | 70 | 4931 yards | 67.3 | 113 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green M: 69.0/130 W: 75.1/142 | 344 | 159 | 353 | 429 | 332 | 154 | 391 | 341 | 506 | 3009 | 557 | 171 | 350 | 349 | 346 | 137 | 302 | 385 | 426 | 3023 | 6032 |
| White M: 67.1/124 W: 72.6/138 | 336 | 135 | 337 | 375 | 314 | 113 | 364 | 312 | 488 | 2774 | 545 | 143 | 298 | 302 | 329 | 112 | 279 | 372 | 391 | 2771 | 5545 |
| Gold M: 65.0/113 W: 69.7/129 | 326 | 116 | 324 | 363 | 294 | 101 | 346 | 303 | 416 | 2589 | 498 | 120 | 286 | 290 | 309 | 106 | 267 | 359 | 356 | 2591 | 5180 |
| Red M: 63.8/110 W: 68.1/121 | 296 | 95 | 320 | 350 | 278 | 98 | 318 | 294 | 407 | 2456 | 487 | 103 | 248 | 248 | 300 | 91 | 256 | 346 | 351 | 2430 | 4886 |
| Handicap | 13 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 18 | 4 | 2 | |||
| Par | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 35 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 70 |
| Handicap (W) | 7 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 4 |
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love this course
one of my favorite courses at Gull Lake View. Weather was perfect, course was in great shape. Pace of play was great considering the weather was fantastic.
Course was in good shape. Slow pace of play
Used Golf now, and they raised the price by the time I got to the course. They told me the $15 fee paid online would be refunded, which did not happen. Not a good experience, but had fun anyway.
Nice place
This was fun to play here . The course was great . First time played here ,plan on going back
Nice course
The course is in great shape for early season golf. Greens are fast and well kept. Sand traps are well maintained as also. Good layout. Plenty of restrooms on the course. Only knock is that many of the red and gold tee boxes are not great. It would be nice if they invested in them the way they do the white tees. Afterall, it's not like you charge people using the red and gold tees less for a round of golf.
Great Course
You can't beat a round of golf in Michigan in August. It's a good course for a hack like me. Though it's a bit hilly, and while I enjoy walking, this course would be a completely different course if I walked it. But it's a beautiful course, with big greens, some water, a few blind hills and dog legs. But it's fun. Definitely worth the trip.
The only other was the pace of play- a Saturday in August saw us stuck behind a couple of foursomes that just couldn't get it together, and wouldn't let anyone play through. Before we ran up on them, 2 of us averaged 10 minutes of a hole. We joined another 2some and we saw 12 minutes a hole. So we're on pace for a 3-3.5 hour pace.
We ended up having a 5+15 minute round. Which was recovered only by the amazing Michigan August weather, and the frequent visit by the cart girls.
Just what you would expect for a golf resort, just lacking GPS on carts.
Nicely groomed track. Not long but plenty of trouble to navigate around. There are a few blind holes and if you have never played it really need to drive down fairway before teeing off. You will also want to make sure it’s clear to hit as some of the landing areas are blind from tee and you do not want to hit into any other groups.
One of the things that one would expect at a golf resort is GPS on the carts. Luckily I have a very good app on my phone that shows where the trouble is. I bought a bushnell watch for about a $100 and they offer an app for your phone to pair with watch. I just leave the watch at home and use the app on my phone.
Fun layout, plenty of hills and lots of slope on most of the greens. The sand traps were decent and tee boxes and greens all in great shape,
Played both of the Gull Lake View courses on the same day. Started on the East and then played the West. The two courses felt quite different from one another, with the East course being much tighter and putting a premium on accuracy and shot placement off the tee. That being said, I felt the East course was a lot of fun to play!
CONDITIONS: The course was in excellent shape. The greens were fast and true. The fairways and tee boxes were in great shape, as were the bunkers.
VALUE: Received and “all day play” rate which I thought was a great value, and would (will) definitely do again!
LAYOUT: Played the White tees (5,545). Wasn’t sure what to expect given the shorter yardage, but everything exceeded expectations! This is all of “under 6,000 yards” you want to handle. Really good par 3s, and fun/strategic short par 4s. The front 9 is good, but the stretch of holes from #12 thru #17 was fantastic. Actually, #9 and #18 are the only forgettable holes.
Though I took a cart, I would walk this course. But I would only do so if it was the only 18 holes I was playing that day.
STAFF: The pro shop was very helpful.
PACE: As the first one off the tee for the day, the pace was excellent! I was able to take my time (and maybe replay) and enjoy the course.
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