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Lake Michigan Hills Golf Club is an 18-hole public course in Benton Harbor, Michigan.

Designed by Charles Maddox Sr.. It plays 6,818 yards from the Black tees, rated 73/133 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
6,818
yards (tips)
133
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES449392161574382399479210413548347367229396488386223361142433455464758394105114124133144155164173184PAROUT 3,459 YDSIN 3,345 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
Charles Maddox Sr. reported
access
public
address
2520 Kerlikowske Road, Benton Harbor, MI, 49022
phone
269-849-4653
elevation
666 ft derived
opened
1969

42.16075, -86.36471 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. Hole 10 is mapped without a green. 33 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one. The map below draws everything that has been traced.

245 traced features across 8 layers for Lake Michigan Hills Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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245 traced features across 8 layers for Lake Michigan Hills Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
21
Fairways
60
Bunkers
11
Water
17
Greens
68
Tee pads
6,256yds
Black tees
574yds
Longest hole
161yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-08-31

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 5 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

BlackM72681873.013334593345
BlueM726489contested639671.112432743122
WhiteM726098contested602069.111931162904
GoldM72514970.612426472470
RedF724080contested414365.611421292014

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 Red 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 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 443544534544345434 72
Black 449392161574382399479210413548347367229396488386223361 6,818
Blue 440376153551375373469146391529320347192373465356207333 6,489
White 416359125527367361457131373505310284166359432344187317 6,098
Gold 349322112463265332365125314419252260135313374285170262 5,149
Red 2802169235121927436011921832321422712927532521592214 4,080
Handicap 113175711915348214121610618

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Lake Michigan Hills Golf Club hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 245 traced features, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

  • 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

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

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Also bookable nearby: Blossom Trails Golf Club (4.6 mi) · Paw Paw Lake Golf Course (4.9 mi) · Bar Harbor Golf Course (5.6 mi) · Berrien Hills Golf Club (7.6 mi)

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
Longest6,818 yds=132nd of 592=3,330th of 12,0253rd of 17 in the Niles, MI metro area · =829th of 4,105 public courses · =1,576th of 7,004 courses you can book · =3,306th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 133=140th of 410=2,813th of 8,71012th of 34 in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI combined area · =559th of 2,882 public courses · =1,174th of 4,936 courses you can book · =2,750th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 73.0=117th of 371=2,665th of 7,61512th of 29 in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI combined area · =597th of 2,412 public courses · =1,157th of 4,145 courses you can book · =2,642nd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,738 yds between tees12th of 565=488th of 11,5231st of 17 in the Niles, MI metro area · =111th of 3,841 public courses · =226th of 6,653 courses you can book · 481st of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1969=227th of 475=4,312th of 9,36811th of 15 in the Niles, MI metro area · =1,260th of 3,277 public courses · =2,246th of 5,526 courses you can book · =3,048th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level666 ft derived =480th of 644=6,017th of 12,437=7th of 18 in the Niles, MI metro area · =2,395th of 4,289 public courses · =3,908th of 7,274 courses you can book · =4,274th 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 5 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 5 sets of tees.
  • Course map, partly built.17 of the 18 greens are drawn — the rest of the course isn't mapped yet.
  • 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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