Kensington Metropark

The fringe around the greens is bad spotty grass not smooth

To start, I would recommend carpooling with your group as there is a $10 per car fee to enter into the park on top of rate. This was not disclosed and the poor kid at the gate said he gets asked by ‘everybody’ about this. This takes away from what would otherwise be a great ‘value’ course. With that being said- you get what you pay for with a near 5-hr slow round. Conditions are pretty well kept for a public course, although the greens were slower than most in the area. The layout has more than a handful of forced hard dogleg (see attached pic for extreme) lefts making it very difficult off the tee without a hook (not draw). Overall average course- probably will play at most 1-2 times a year here.

I have been playing Kensington on and off for over 25 years and I've always have loved the course. The par 4's are long with most or all over 370 yards from the whites and many over 400 yards. The greens where in great shape and once the moisture dried out, pretty fast. My biggest complaint was the new to me fee, for going to the golf course. For many years the fee for the park was $2 knowing that, this was the only facility you were going to use. Sometime in the last couple of years, they raised the cost to the standard day rate of $10 just to access the course. At now $58 to play a round, I find that there are too many other great courses in that $55-$60 range, so I will not be returning to ANY metro park course to play. Lyon Oaks which is an Oakland County park and course do not charge anything to play their course.

We had to play in the pouring down rain. Starter would not give us a rain check. Rained for 18 holes.

Absolute worst rangers/ golf staff I’ve ever dealt with..
I live just over an hour from the course and I finally took the drive out for an early tee time on a Sunday morning.
We were approached on the 15th hole with the ranger basically yelling at us that we were 4 holes behind and “holding up the whole course”
We then went on to catch up to a group on the next hole.
We played 18 holes in 4 hours and 15 minutes. I understand keeping the course moving but I’ve also been golfing long enough to understand pace of play and to me this is unacceptable.
Seems they are just pushing their paying customers to accommodate their greed and squeeze in 8 minute tee times.
I will not be returning and I urge anyone looking to ENJOY a round of golf to stay away.
Rates seem decent but add $10 to whatever your rate is for park entry fees,
There’s much, much better golf for that price in the area.