Lakewood Shores Resort - The Gailes Golf Course, Michigan, United States

4GregfromDTW 5:00 PM Aug 6, 2013

Don't listen to the "dissers"
Stayed @ Lakewood Shores in the apartment style condos and played The Gailes and Blackshire. Saw some recent reviews saying the place was no good - au contraire mon ami, the rental rooms/apartments are a bit spartan but fairly clean (a spider or 2 in residence and they don't clean behind the nightstands/dressers) but fine in the main - especially when considering the price (great stay and play deals) and the fact that you're probably on the golf course all day anyway. The Gailes is the links style course and is a touch shopworn as it seems no one fixes their divots or ball marks, but is a challenge. The Blackshire is in a it better shape, but a traditional "up north" type course vs. the links style Gailes. I'm not sure you can beat the price of the lodging/golf packages and you can include food packages if you like (food is pretty good, but not gourmet fare). I will say you can't beat the price of any of the packages I've seen (we got ours on golfnow.com). So if there is some dust, bugs, less than spacious rooms, so what @ these prices????

3Hackers2 5:00 PM Aug 1, 2017

Challenging course - Lacking in service and amenities
Classic example of you get what you pay for...as other posters have stated, to keep costs low something needs to give. In our case it was the golf carts. We played Blackshire on Sat. and the Gailes on Sun. The brakes did not work correctly on either cart. We had to make sure we were on a flat and turned the wheels to keep the cart from rolling. On Sunday, the cart would not move very well over grass and quit on 17. My husband pushed it to 18 and I called for a replacement. When we finished there were no carts available for golfers because golfers were taking over 5 hrs. to play (looking for balls of course) and the number of carts is based on a 4.5 hr. round. We probably lost over 20 golf balls and found around 10 balls. You could track your ball into the long grass or stream and think you knew exactly where it was and never find it. I knew this ahead of time and took all the old golf balls from my garage to play with. The course was in okay shape. I wouldn't call the traps sand traps as they were more like hard packed dirt - not easy to get under and out. The food was okay in the clubhouse but the service was excellent. Their special price for dinner and breakfast never made economical sense to us no matter how we calculated it so we just paid the menu prices. The hotel was very basic but clean. Very noisy though. We could hear our neighbors talking and walking up the stairs outside just like they were in our room. We had fun at the beach in downtown Oscoda but the town itself is lacking. We drove the 20 min. to Tawas for dinner. Much more festive atmosphere...like being in an up north town. Much more fun to walk around. It was a good value for what we paid on the discount site but don't think we would return here.