Radrick Farms Golf Course
Ann Arbor, MI • Private
Courtesy of the club/Eric Bronson
Overview
The Alister MacKenzie-designed course at the University of Michigan is ranked in the top five of Golf Digest’s top collegiate courses in America, and the university also owns Radrick Farms, a Pete and Alice Dye design, also a member of our Greatest College Courses list. Radrick Farms is Dye in his gentlest form. The course is one of Dye’s earliest designs and lacks many of the penal features that he used in his most famous layouts. Some bunkers have the steep faces Dye would use more in his later designs but many are quite forgiving. The course is built on a former gravel mine, giving the terrain significant elevation change of up to 100 feet across the property. Like the university’s MacKenzie design, Radrick Farms is semi-private and open to those with an affiliation to the university.
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Awards
Ranking history:
Best in State: Ranked inside the top 10, 1999. Ranked inside the top 15, 1995-'97, 2003-'05. Ranked inside the top 20, 2001.
America's Greatest College Courses: 20th (2023).
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100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES
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Reviews
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“Large generous fairways and generous greens with subtle but significant slopes. This is a friendly course for the less skilled player while still being interesting for the better player. Lots of land movement and topographical changes."
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“A lot of fun, though the final few holes through the wetlands are a low point to me."
Read More2020
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“Early Pete Dye design that is playable and challenging. Great green complexes."
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“One of Pete Dye's very first golf course designs. Course lacks the typical Dye design features that make his later designs so difficult and thus is a much more pleasant course to play."
Read More2019
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“An early Pete Dye that will make you think on every hole. If you are a U of M fan, go play it."
Read More2019
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