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Downing Farms Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Salem Township, Michigan.

Designed by Harry Bowers. It plays 5,866 yards from the Championship tees.

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18
holes
71
par
5,866
yards (tips)
The shape of the round · Championship teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — CHAMPIONSHIP TEES336158418194309135536310480477415178310480116336272406142334435463758495105114123134145153164174184PAROUT 2,876 YDSIN 2,990 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer
Harry Bowers reported
access
public
address
Falstaff Circle, Salem Township, MI, 48175
elevation
980 ft derived
opened
1992

42.42201, -83.60338 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 12 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

176 traced features across 8 layers for Downing Farms Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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176 traced features across 8 layers for Downing Farms Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
17
Fairways
22
Bunkers
9
Water
18
Greens
53
Tee pads
5,866yds
Championship tees
536yds
Longest hole
116yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-08-16

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 3 tee sets par, yardage — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 3 rows.

ChampionshipM70contested71586628762990
MiddleM70contested71508725292558
ForwardM70contested71427120982173

Every figure as published except Card par (derived), which is summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Championship, Middle and Forward tees publish a par the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Par column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own par row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 434343545543453444 71
Championship 336158418194309135536310480477415178310480116336272406 5,866
Middle 28113937917326312547527142337836414727438790289242387 5,087
Forward 245973011592389541622632130731411524235058260188339 4,271
Handicap 121452174118116891371610153

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Downing Farms Golf Course hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

  • The approach, planned A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

Plan this course in the Studio

Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

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Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

FigureThis courseIn MichiganNationwideAmong its peers
Longest5,866 yds438th of 592=8,656th of 12,025=2,569th of 4,105 public courses · =4,633rd of 7,004 courses you can book · =8,577th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,595 yds between tees226th of 565=4,780th of 11,523=1,323rd of 3,841 public courses · =2,509th of 6,653 courses you can book · =4,709th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1992=335th of 475=6,580th of 9,368=2,070th of 3,277 public courses · =3,651st of 5,526 courses you can book · =4,758th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level980 ft derived 96th of 644=3,538th of 12,437=1,321st of 4,289 public courses · =2,298th of 7,274 courses you can book · =2,436th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

What's on this page

In progress3 of 6 built

3 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 3 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, not built yet.We don't have a course rating or slope for this course yet.
  • Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
  • Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.4 of 7 background details — we don't hold a website, a phone number and the grass on the greens.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

Sources

Gathered from the course's own published information and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-14. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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