Hidden River Golf and Casting Club is an 18-hole semi-private course in Brutus, Michigan.

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holes

par

7,101

yards (tips)

138

slope (black)

The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only

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: W. Bruce Matthews III reported
access: semi-private
address: 7688 Maple River Road, Brutus, MI, 49716
phone: 231-529-4653
website: course site →
elevation: 632 ft derived
opened: 1997
on site: pro shop · restaurant · lessons

45.50409, -84.75109 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 29 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

234 traced features across 8 layers for Hidden River Golf and Casting Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

7,097yds

Black tees

636yds

Longest hole

159yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-08-11

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 6 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Black	M	72	7101		74.3	138	3703	3394
Blue	M	72	6638contested	6555	72.2	131	3426	3129
White	M	72	6104contested	6002	69.4	125	3100	2902
Gold	F	72	5512contested	5450	71.8	127	2800	2650
Gold	M	72	5512contested	5450	66.7	118	2800	2650
Red	M	72	4787		67.4	116	2432	2332

Every figure as published except Card yards (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 Blue, White and Gold tees publish a yardage total 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 Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	3	4	5	4	5	4	3	4	5	4	3	4	3	4	5	4	72
Black	382	406	185	461	549	469	636	456	159	396	522	344	205	379	243	426	535	344	7,101
Blue	340	380	166	422	527	439	600	404	148	338	499	328	199	348	213	379	503	322	6,638
White	320	321	146	387	486	388	569	341	142	322	468	320	185	333	132	366	486	290	6,104
Gold	282	284	127	334	467	335	527	314	130	278	435	284	167	326	112	308	476	264	5,512
Red	228	248	120	263	432	325	443	296	77	234	416	231	97	309	104	264	456	221	4,787
Handicap	13	9	17	7	11	1	5	3	15	14	18	6	12	4	16	8	2	10

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Hidden River Golf and Casting Club 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 Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

Plan this course in the Studio

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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Hidden River Golf and Casting Club's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Chestnut Valley Golf Course (6.6 mi) · The Moor at the Highlands Boyne (8.4 mi) · The Moor (8.5 mi) · Arthur Hills (8.6 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

Figure	This course	In Michigan	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	7,101 yds	28th of 592	=1,127th of 12,025	3rd of 13 in the Petoskey, MI area · =110th of 2,030 semi-private courses · =486th of 7,004 courses you can book · =1,125th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 138	=77th of 410	=1,412th of 8,710	=154th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =540th of 4,936 courses you can book · =1,381st of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 74.3	=50th of 371	=1,092nd of 7,615	=96th of 1,141 semi-private courses · =424th of 4,145 courses you can book · =1,084th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,314 yds between tees	34th of 565	=1,074th of 11,523	2nd of 13 in the Petoskey, MI area · 164th of 1,970 semi-private courses · =499th of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,047th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1997	=390th of 475	=7,397th of 9,368	=1,233rd of 1,516 semi-private courses · =4,233rd of 5,526 courses you can book · =5,419th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	632 ft derived	=522nd of 644	=6,310th of 12,437	13th of 13 in the Petoskey, MI area · =1,039th of 2,089 semi-private courses · =4,091st of 7,274 courses you can book · =4,488th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 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 6 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 6 sets of tees.
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.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

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Sources

Gathered from the course's own site 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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