Michigan is a golfer’s delight, albeit with a short season, and includes over 600 golf courses including 9 holers, municipals, military, public, private, and resort. Our guide to the best public golf courses you can play in Michigan was developed over the last 15 years from the leading golf periodicals’ lists of best golf courses you can play in addition to our user’s favorites. Arbor Hills was submitted by a user and is considered one of the best courses open to public play. It is located the west side of Jackson on Spring Harbor Road 5 minutes off I-94. Our Jackson guide shows there are a half-dozen public access golf courses in the area, so one could easily spend a week here with a different layout each day and at very reasonable rates.

The layout is over relatively level terrain with fairways defined by evergreens and hardwoods providing a mix of straightforward and dogleg corridors. There’s 30 +/- sand bunkers in play and Sandstone Creek on its western boundary comeing into play on multiple holes. There’s three sets of tees from 5,322 yards to 6,480 yards off the tips, 71.3/131, course/slope ratings, designed by Arthur Hamm, a Donald Ross protege with a dozen golf course designs in the mid-1920s.