Best Golf Courses Near Sterling Heights, MI

The second largest suburb of Detroit behind Warren and the fourth largest city in Michigan, Sterling Heights has hundreds of restaurants, cafes, parks and other things to do. Located on the Clinton River, Sterling Heights, which has about 130,000 people and is about30 minutes north of Detroit, also stages a festival called the Sterlingfest Art and Jazz Fair, which draws well over 100,000 people each August. The public golf courses in the area are a good draw as well, and they are many. For example, Plum Brook Golf Course is a 6,300-yard layout that goes back to 1927. Ramier Golf Course opened in 1929 and offers both a regulation course and a par-3 layout. And Maple Lake Golf Club, which opened in 1926, has 27 holes. The surrounding communities also have plenty of golf courses, such as Sanctuary Lake and Sylvan Glen in Troy as well as the highly regarded municipal, St. Clair Shores Country Club.