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The Links at Crystal Lake is an 18-hole public golf course in Pontiac, Michigan.

It plays 5,587 yards from the Championship tees, rated 66.8/120 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
70
par
5,587
yards (tips)
120
slope (championship)
The shape of the round · Championship teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — CHAMPIONSHIP TEES281171491385124397325326323324274176518106313172525356142335445364748494104114123135143154163175184PAROUT 2,823 YDSIN 2,764 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

access
public
address
800 Golf Drive, Pontiac, MI, 48341
phone
248-758-3966
elevation
915 ft derived
opened
1923

42.62083, -83.29952 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. The green of hole 10 is predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. 12 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

206 features across 8 layers for The Links at Crystal Lake, 205 traced and 1 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

Use arrow keys to pan, plus and minus to zoom. Tab reaches the map controls.

206 features across 8 layers for The Links at Crystal Lake, 205 traced and 1 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Some outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

18
Holes
20
Fairways
49
Bunkers
3
Water
18
Greens
52
Tee pads
5,587yds
Championship tees
525yds
Longest hole
106yds
Shortest hole

205 imported from OpenStreetMap and 1 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-07-29 – 2022-08-27

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 3 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 3 rows.

ChampionshipM70558766.812028232764
BackM70494464.310824902454
ForwardM70445065.011421812269

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 435434444443534354 70
Championship 281171491385124397325326323324274176518106313172525356 5,587
Back 25214345433110036728027029329124914049090267138466323 4,944
Forward 2151204122958433821724325727823212745086229133446288 4,450
Handicap 181421166108127139317515411

Plan it in the Studio

Plan The Links at Crystal Lake 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.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to The Links at Crystal Lake'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: The Jewel of Grand Blanc (2.7 mi) · Pontiac Country Club (4.1 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
Longest5,587 yds465th of 5928,888th of 12,025118th of 149 in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area · 2,694th of 4,105 public courses · 4,811th of 7,004 courses you can book · 8,794th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 120=317th of 410=6,588th of 8,710=91st of 118 in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area · =1,819th of 2,882 public courses · =3,381st of 4,936 courses you can book · =6,169th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 66.8357th of 371=7,167th of 7,615103rd of 107 in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area · =2,203rd of 2,412 public courses · =3,853rd of 4,145 courses you can book · =6,942nd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,137 yds between tees393rd of 565=7,680th of 11,523102nd of 137 in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area · 2,267th of 3,841 public courses · =4,142nd of 6,653 courses you can book · =7,494th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1923=56th of 475=1,001st of 9,368=17th of 133 in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area · =134th of 3,277 public courses · =315th of 5,526 courses you can book · =746th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level915 ft derived 182nd of 644=4,009th of 12,43757th of 163 in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area · =1,526th of 4,289 public courses · =2,605th of 7,274 courses you can book · =2,778th 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 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 3 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 3 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.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect 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 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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Heathers Club of Bloomfield

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Wabeek Country Club

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Bloomfield Hills Country Club

3.3 mi · Bloomfield Hills · private · 18 holes

Stonycroft Hills Club

3.6 mi · Bloomfield Hills · private · 9 holes

Pontiac Country Club

4.1 mi · Waterford · semi-private · 18 holes

Tam O'Shanter Country Club

4.9 mi · West Bloomfield · private · 18 holes

Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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