Belles Springs Golf Course — Attraction in Lamar Township

I wanted to give this place zero stars, but I’m giving it one — only because my husband and son said the course itself was very nice.

I’ve taken time to pray and reflect before writing this. My husband and our 19-year-old son came up from Florida for a visit and were excited to play a round of golf together. They brought their clubs and booked an early morning tee time.

When they arrived at the clubhouse, my husband politely said, “Good morning, we have a tee time.” The man behind the counter — and I hesitate to call him a gentleman — responded with, “I doubt you do,” in an unnecessarily rude tone.

Despite the treatment, my husband, a kind and well-educated Puerto Rican man, smiled and gave his name. The man glanced at the list, confirmed the tee time without apology, and coldly told them where the carts were.

My son was shocked. My husband, trying to keep the peace, told him, “Unfortunately, you’ll come across people like this in the world. Don’t let them steal your joy.” He brushed it off — I cannot.

We’re active golfers and often travel to courses for both leisure and business. Sadly, this is not a place we’ll recommend. To the man who treated them that way: I’ll pray for you. Judging someone by the color of their skin is wrong — and it does not belong in any clubhouse, on any...

PROS: GREAT course with lots of photo ops. Played for $25 on Group Golfer. It was over 100 degrees outside, yet still had great time. Pro shop was nothing special. Staff was professional.. Not overly or underly friendly. BREATHTAKING views-------that are probably even better in the fall. Seemed like a photo op every other hole. Good variety of challenge depending on which tees you opted for. I played the front 9 in 40 from seniors and the back 42 from whites. Probably 500 yards difference. VERY generous senior tee locations. Greens were very consistent. Fairly open course with not a lot of danger. As open as it was, found LOTS of shade to wait under when having to wait on other golfers. Snack shop and bar with locker room and shower----which I definitely needed when done. Bartender was wonderful filling up my water bottles for trip to next destination.

CONS: not much. Pace of play on back 9 was a tad slow, but not the worst. Hooked up with local and had a great chat and comparable level of play. If not so far away would DEFINITELY play...

My family and I came from out of town to visit family and golf. Today we tried to play the back 9 and the ENTIRE time we were trying to play the staff was mowing. We understand that maintenance needs to be done however it is not ok to continually follow people up and down the course. They was no one to flag down for help or to bring this to anyone’s attention so we “played” through to try and get ahead of the mowing staff only to be followed again and again. They would come right up to the green while we were putting! It was insane, completely unprofessional, and ruined the experience. Once we finally gave up and left the office staff was unhelpful and told us to tell it to the maintenance supervisor or go find a Marshall. No, thank you! Issues should be handled in house by knowledgeable and friendly staff, not...