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The Nightmare GC is an 18-hole public golf course in West Branch, Michigan.

It plays 7,020 yards from the Championship tees, rated 73.9/132 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
7,020
yards (tips)
132
slope (championship)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES358216462458191573341626443313483161434214413360393580142334445365748594104115123134143154164174185PAROUT 3,668 YDSIN 3,351 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
5745 Old 76, West Branch, MI, 48661
phone
989-345-1500
elevation
1,283 ft derived
opened
2003

44.26949, -84.35289 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. Hole 7 is mapped without a green. 11 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.

217 traced features across 8 layers for The Nightmare GC, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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

217 traced features across 8 layers for The Nightmare GC, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
19
Fairways
75
Bunkers
6
Water
17
Greens
57
Tee pads
6,678yds
Black tees
626yds
Longest hole
161yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-09-09

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 4 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 4 rows.

ChampionshipM72702073.9132
BlackM726527contested701971.413036683351
MiddleM72601168.9128
ForwardM72516869.9121

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 Black 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

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 434435454453434445 72
Black 358216462458191573341626443313483161434214413360393580 6,527
Handicap 131559173111716618812410142

No per-hole yardages are published for Championship, Middle and Forward, so they are not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan The Nightmare GC hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 217 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

See the courses it plans Open 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 Nightmare GC'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 Dream GC (1.2 mi) · West Branch Country Club (6.7 mi) · Apple Valley Golf Course (7.6 mi) · Birch Pointe Golf Club (8.0 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
Longest7,020 yds=50th of 592=1,713th of 12,025=412th of 4,105 public courses · =776th of 7,004 courses you can book · =1,705th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 132=154th of 410=3,130th of 8,710=629th of 2,882 public courses · =1,317th of 4,936 courses you can book · =3,063rd of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 73.9=63rd of 371=1,496th of 7,615=316th of 2,412 public courses · =611th of 4,145 courses you can book · =1,484th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,852 yds between tees138th of 565=3,117th of 11,523808th of 3,841 public courses · =1,544th of 6,653 courses you can book · =3,066th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 2003=452nd of 475=8,576th of 9,368=3,022nd of 3,277 public courses · =5,070th of 5,526 courses you can book · =6,366th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level1,283 ft derived 20th of 644=2,116th of 12,437724th of 4,289 public courses · =1,339th of 7,274 courses you can book · =1,444th 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 1 set of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 4 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.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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The Dream GC

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West Branch Country Club

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Apple Valley Golf Course

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Birch Pointe Golf Club

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Fox Run Country Club

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White Deer Country Club

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Pine View Highlands

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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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