Twin Brooks Golf Course Review

Twin Brooks Golf Course
Chesaning, MI
Grade: C+
Teachers’ Comments: A nice small town course.

In reviewing more than three hundred courses across Michigan, I have been struck by the abundance of solid small town courses. They often are quiet, unassuming and affordable, while offering quality, if unspectacular golf.

Twin Brooks is one of those. I had a good time playing this parklands layout in Chesaning (population 2, 430). If Chesaning was my home town, I’d be happy to have Twin Brooks as my home course.

Routed across mostly flat terrain, Twin Brooks is a parklands course that incorporates a creek, four ponds and nine doglegs.

I am not sure where the second eponymous “brook” was. It even fails to show up on a Google Earth view. Perhaps it is a reference to what looks like an irrigation channel that defines the out-of-bounds on the north edge of the property.

The only elevation changes on the course are on the holes that cross over Deer Creek, and even then those are slight. Many of the greens and tee boxes are raised, though.

Much of the challenge at Twin Brooks comes from the trees lining the relatively narrow fairways. A ball that runs through the dogleg, or is too far off the fairway is likely to find itself stymied. The trees are not dense (except on the stretch of 12 – 14) but there are enough and they always seem to be in the “wrong” place.

My favorite hole was the par four fifth. It’s a slight dogleg left that asks for a tee shot skirting trees on the left side. Too far to the right, and there’s the possibility that one of those pesky trees blocks your angle to the green.

The approach shot must carry over a slight depression and the narrow Deer Creek. A large bunker guards the front left. On the other sides, there is a small fall-off from the green.

Also of note was the par three second. This 147-yarder requires a 147-yard carry over water to a green guarded by a rocky front. It is quite pretty and might be Twin Brook’s signature hole.

Twin Brooks is not a long course, coming in at 6, 330 from the back tees. If you’re a big hitter who can drive a ball straight, you should card a good score at Twin Brooks.

Conditions on the late fall day I played were solid. Fairways were well covered. Greens were smooth. The tee boxes were a bit beat up, but that is to be expected at the end of a season. I didn’t encounter anything that impeded play.

There was a fire burning in the woods to the right of the twelfth that was billowing smoke across the fairway. It actually smelled nice, in a campfire sort of way. But I was concerned, so I flagged down a maintenance guy who said they were aware.

And so on I went.

If I lived in Chesaning, I would happily play Twin Brooks on a regular basis. It was pleasant, and just challenging enough to hold my interest.

The Twin Brooks golf course review was first published on GolfBlogger.Com on February 17, 2026 from notes and photos taken on a round played at the tail end of the 2025 season. For all of GolfBlogger’s Michigan Golf Course Reviews, follow the link.

A photo tour follows.

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