Golf courses opening: Here’s where you can play in metro Detroit

Golf is back in Michigan and it’s finally time to break out the clubs from the basement.

Looking for a course you can get out and play during the end of winter and early days of spring around metro Detroit? There are plenty.

Thanks to some uncharacteristic warm weather early in the year for metro Detroit, golf courses are opening their doors for patrons early, with some courses already in operation, and others welcoming golfers for the first time during the inaugural weekend of March.

“As soon as we had those couple of warm days a week or two ago, all of our golf courses started getting calls asking if we were open and when we were going to open,” Huron-Clinton chief of marketing and communications Danielle Mauter said Thursday. “Staff has been working diligently trying to make that happen much earlier in the season than what we would typically see. Typically, our courses don’t open until early April, so we are a month early at this point.”

Still, be sure to call ahead wherever you’re looking to play for updates on course conditions.

“It’s early but we expect to be operating with the usual great conditions that you’d expect from Kensington,” Kensington Metropark course manager Matt Park said Thursday. “It’s a bonus to be able to be able to open this early and we’re looking forward to getting some golfers their early fix.”

Here’s a list of golf course openings in and

around metro Detroit.

When do golf courses open in metro Detroit for 2024 season?

*Current regular 18-hole rates with cart; rates may vary online, later in the day, and for seniors

Beacon Hills, Commerce Township: Open Blackheath, Rochester Hills: Open

Brae Burn, Salem Township: Open

Cattails, South Lyon: Open

Cherry Creek, Shelby Township: Open Coyote Golf Club, New Hudson: Monday Eagle Crest, Ypsilanti: Open, $55 weekday, $65 weekend

Fellows Creek, Canton: Open

Fox Creek, Livonia: Open, $35 weekday, $42 weekend

Fox Hills, Salem Township: March 2 Glenhurst, Redford: Open

Glen Oaks, Farmington Hills: March 29 (tentative), $47 weekday, $52 weekend

Greystone, Washington: Open, $40 weekday, $50 weekend

Hilltop, Plymouth Township: Open Huntmore, Brighton Township: Open, $50 weekday, $60 weekend

The Links at Hunters Ridge, Howell: Open Huron Meadows Metropark, Brighton: March 2, $39 weekend

Idyl Wild, Livonia: Open, $37 weekday, $39 weekend

Kensington Metropark, Brighton: SaturdaySunday; full opening March 16, $36 weekday, $40 weekend

Lake Erie Metropark, Wayne County: Open, $31 weekday and weekend

Lake Forest Golf Club, Ann Arbor: Open, $45 weekday and weekend

Links at Gateway, Romulus: Open

Lyon Oaks, Wixom: March 29 (tentative), $61 weekday, $77 weekend

The Majestic, Hartland: Open, $45 weekend Northville Hills, Northville Township: Open The Orchards, Washington Township: Friday or 15, $50 weekday, $60 weekend

Pierce Lake, Chelsea: April 1

Pine Trace, Rochester Hills: Open

Rackham, Huntington Woods: Open, $36 weekday and weekend

Red Oaks, Madison Heights (9-hole course): March 29 (tentative), $30 weekday, $32 weekend Rouge Park, Detroit: Open

Salem Hills, Salem Township: Open Shepherd’s Hollow, Clarkston: Open Springfield Oaks, Davisburg: March 29 (tentative), $47 weekday, $51 weekend

St. Clair Shores Golf Club: Open

Stonebridge, Ann Arbor: Open, $49 weekday, $69 weekend

Sylvan Glen, Troy: Open

Timber Trace, Pinckney: Open

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Open, $32 (affiliated)

Washtenaw Golf Club, Ypsilanti: Open, $45 weekday and weekend

WestWynd, Oakland Township: Open, $45 weekday, $55 weekend

Whispering Willow, Livonia: March 15

White Lake Oaks, White Lake Township: March 29 (tentative), $43 weekday, $48 weekend

Willow Metropark, New Boston: Open, $31 weekday and weekend.