Walnut Creek Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in South Lyon, Michigan.

Designed by Arthur Hills, Paul Albanese. It plays 6,790 yards from the Champion tees, rated 72.7/138 (checked 2026-08-14).

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holes

par

6,790

yards (tips)

138

slope (champion)

The shape of the round · Middle 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: Arthur Hills, Paul Albanese reported
access: private
address: 25501 Johns Road, South Lyon, MI
phone: 248-437-7337
website: course site →
elevation: 945 ft derived
opened: 1995
turf: Blue Grass greens · Blue Grass fairways
on site: driving range · putting green · lessons

42.47619, -83.56973 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 68 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

269 traced features across 8 layers for Walnut Creek Country 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

5,958yds

Middle tees

514yds

Longest hole

138yds

Shortest hole

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

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 7 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Champion	M	72	6790	72.7	138
Back	M	72	6412	70.9	135
Middle	F	72	5963	74.8	138	2963	2995
Middle	M	72	5963	69.0	127	2963	2995
Combined	F	72	5554	72.7	127
Combined	M	72	5554	67.1	122
Forward	F	72	5177	70.6	123	2574	2634

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

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	5	3	4	4	5	3	5	3	4	4	5	3	4	4	4	3	5	72
Middle	375	473	141	361	338	498	154	474	149	380	386	514	169	282	339	326	138	461	5,963
Forward	335	408	133	284	304	425	135	424	126	351	330	424	119	272	330	261	118	429	5,177
Handicap	11	15	13	9	3	1	17	7	5	8	16	2	12	10	6	14	18	4

No per-hole yardages are published for Champion, Back and Combined, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Walnut Creek Country 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

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Book nearby

Walnut Creek Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: River Bank Golf Course (1.9 mi, public) · Coyote Golf Club (2.4 mi, public) · Cattails Golf Club (3.2 mi, public) · Downing Farms Golf Course (4.1 mi, public)

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	6,790 yds	149th of 592	=3,607th of 12,025	39th of 149 in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area · =1,258th of 2,954 private courses · =3,582nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 138	=77th of 410	=1,412th of 8,710	=22nd of 118 in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area · =632nd of 2,300 private courses · =1,381st of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 72.7	=133rd of 371	=3,063rd of 7,615	=40th of 107 in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area · =1,227th of 2,143 private courses · =3,035th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,613 yds between tees	223rd of 565	=4,654th of 11,523	52nd of 137 in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area · 1,359th of 2,885 private courses · =4,584th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1995	=360th of 475	=7,025th of 9,368	=108th of 133 in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area · =1,967th of 2,418 private courses · =5,119th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	945 ft derived	129th of 644	=3,772nd of 12,437	28th of 163 in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area · =712th of 3,026 private courses · =2,603rd 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 3 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 7 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
Per-hole distances, not built yet.We can't tie the mapped playing line to the published hole distances, so we're not showing distances here.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, built.All 7 background details — architect, year opened, access, contact and grass.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. What's left on this course is ours to build rather than ours to be told — it comes from mapping and survey data, not from a form. Coverage sets out where the whole database stands.

Sources

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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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Coyote Golf Club

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Lyon Oaks Golf Course

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Cattails Golf Club

3.2 mi · South Lyon · public · 18 holes

Downing Farms Golf Course

4.1 mi · Salem Township · public · 18 holes

Salem Hills Golf Club

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Hickory Hill Golf Course

5.9 mi · Wixom · public · 9 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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