The longest course in the Niles, MI metro area is Lost Dunes, at 6,905 yards — ahead of Harbor Shores at 6,852 yards and Lake Michigan Hills Golf Club at 6,818 yards.
All 17 courses in the area with a published scorecard are ranked below, along with 3 more lists: widest tee spread, oldest, highest above sea level.
Niles, MI is a metro area as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates it — the boundary is theirs, not ours. Each list counts only the courses in the area that publish that figure, so the totals differ between them. Slope and course rating measure difficulty, not quality — nothing here ranks how good a course is.
Longest
— all 17 courses with a published scorecard
| # | Course | Longest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lost Dunes | 6,905 yds |
| 2 | Harbor Shores | 6,852 yds |
| 3 | Lake Michigan Hills Golf Club | 6,818 yds |
| 4 | Bar Harbor Golf Course | 6,680 yds |
| 5 | Chikaming Country Club | 6,596 yds |
| 6 | Brookwood Golf Course | 6,452 yds |
| 7 | Orchard Hill Country Club | 6,258 yds |
| 8 | Berrien Hills Golf Club | 6,219 yds |
| 9 | Paw Paw Lake Golf Course | 6,055 yds |
| 10 | Indian Lake Hills Golf Course | 6,043 yds |
| 11 | Pebblewood Golf Course | 5,421 yds |
| 12 | Pipestone Creek Golf Course | 4,529 yds |
| 13 | The Dunes Club | 3,524 yds |
| 14 | Plym Park Golf Course | 3,207 yds |
| 15 | Signal Point Country Club | 3,044 yds |
| 16 | Grand Beach Golf Course | 2,955 yds |
| 17 | Blossom Trails Golf Club | 1,115 yds |
The longest tee set the course publishes, in yards from the tips. Compared against every course that publishes a scorecard — length is a measurement, not a verdict on the golf.
Widest tee spread
— all 17 courses with two or more tee sets of different lengths
| # | Course | Widest tee spread |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lake Michigan Hills Golf Club | 2,738 yds between tees |
| 2 | Harbor Shores | 1,935 yds between tees |
| 3 | Brookwood Golf Course | 1,798 yds between tees |
| 4 | Lost Dunes | 1,474 yds between tees |
| 5 | Chikaming Country Club | 1,463 yds between tees |
| 6 | Orchard Hill Country Club | 1,449 yds between tees |
| 7 | Bar Harbor Golf Course | 1,445 yds between tees |
| 8 | Paw Paw Lake Golf Course | 1,244 yds between tees |
| 9 | The Dunes Club | 1,052 yds between tees |
| 10 | Berrien Hills Golf Club | 956 yds between tees |
| 11 | Indian Lake Hills Golf Course | 873 yds between tees |
| 12 | Pebblewood Golf Course | 785 yds between tees |
| 13 | Plym Park Golf Course | 623 yds between tees |
| 14 | Grand Beach Golf Course | 620 yds between tees |
| 15 | Pipestone Creek Golf Course | 584 yds between tees |
| 16 | Signal Point Country Club | 365 yds between tees |
| 17 | Blossom Trails Golf Club | 220 yds between tees |
Yards between the longest and shortest published tee sets — how far the course moves to fit a different player. Courses publishing a single tee set are not in the running, because one set is an unmeasured spread rather than a narrow one.
Oldest
— all 15 courses with an opening year
| # | Course | Oldest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand Beach Golf Course | opened 1912 |
| 2 | Chikaming Country Club | opened 1913 |
| 3 | Orchard Hill Country Club | opened 1915 |
| 4 | Paw Paw Lake Golf Course | opened 1918 |
| 5 | Indian Lake Hills Golf Course | opened 1923 |
| 6 | Pipestone Creek Golf Course | opened 1950 |
| 7 | Blossom Trails Golf Club | opened 1958 |
| 8 | Signal Point Country Club | opened 1963 |
| 9 | Brookwood Golf Course | opened 1965 |
| 10 | Bar Harbor Golf Course | opened 1968 |
| 11 | Lake Michigan Hills Golf Club | opened 1969 |
| 12 | The Dunes Club | opened 1991 |
| 13 | Whittaker Woods Golf Club | opened 1996 |
| 14 | Lost Dunes | opened 1999 |
| 15 | Harbor Shores | opened 2010 |
The year the course opened, as published. Ranked oldest first. An opening year is not a design credit and not a renovation date — a course that opened in 1921 and was rebuilt in 1998 still opened in 1921.
Highest above sea level
— all 18 courses with a coordinate we could sample
| # | Course | Highest above sea level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian Lake Hills Golf Course | 874 ft |
| 2 | Brookwood Golf Course | 753 ft |
| 3 | Pipestone Creek Golf Course | 736 ft |
| 4 | Orchard Hill Country Club | 715 ft |
| 5 | Signal Point Country Club | 709 ft |
| 6 | Pebblewood Golf Course | 676 ft |
| 7 | Lake Michigan Hills Golf Club | 666 ft |
| 7 | Whittaker Woods Golf Club | 666 ft |
| 9 | Chikaming Country Club | 655 ft |
| 10 | Paw Paw Lake Golf Course | 648 ft |
| 11 | Plym Park Golf Course | 647 ft |
| 12 | Blossom Trails Golf Club | 645 ft |
| 13 | The Dunes Club | 623 ft |
| 14 | Lost Dunes | 614 ft |
| 15 | Grand Beach Golf Course | 613 ft |
| 16 | Bar Harbor Golf Course | 588 ft |
| 17 | Harbor Shores | 583 ft |
| 18 | Berrien Hills Golf Club | 581 ft |
Height above sea level at the course’s own published coordinate, sampled from the USGS 3DEP elevation model. THIS IS A FIGURE WE DERIVED, not one the course publishes — anybody can re-query the same public dataset at the same coordinate and get the same number, but no scorecard states it. Because every course carries a coordinate, this is the only board here whose field is nearly the whole database rather than the courses that publish a particular figure. Elevation changes how far a ball carries; it says nothing about whether a course is good.