Kent Country Club

Detailed description of Kent Country Club

Kent Country Club is a Private 18 hole golf course located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Kent Country Club was founded 1n 1896. Edward Lowe and J.C. Holt formed the original nine-hole Grand Rapids Golf Club in an open field at the corner of Wealthy Street and Plymouth Avenue in East Grand Rapids. The first golf club in West Michigan had modest beginnings, but as the game of golf steadily grew in popularity, so did the club's membership. Outgrowing its original site, the golf club moved to its current location at the turn of the 20th century where a new course was built and over the years this new golf course was expanded and renovated.

The present day Kent Country Club golf course was most notably the work of a redesign layout in the 1920s by Donald J. Ross.

Kent Country Club golf course is built on rolling hills and has fast greens and plush fairways.

Par for the course is 71. From the back tees the course plays to 6,507 yards. From the forward tees the course measures 5,592 yards. The longest hole on the course is # 15, a par-5 that plays to 547 yards. The shortest hole on the course is # 3, a par-3 that plays to 165 yards from the back tees.

Watch out for # 7, a 390 yard par-4 challenge and the #1 handicap hole on the course. The easiest hole at Kent Country Club is # 13, a 183 yard par-3.