Timber Trace Golf Course

Pinckney sits in the heart of the Pinckney Recreation Area, a landscape of glacially carved lakes, hardwood forests, and rolling moraines that defines the inland character of Livingston County. It's a corner of southeastern Michigan that feels genuinely removed from the suburban spread of Ann Arbor and Detroit, and that natural setting does a lot of the heavy lifting for any golf course built within it.

Timber Trace reads as a course shaped by that wooded, lake-dotted terrain — the name itself signals a layout where tree lines matter and the land dictates routing decisions. Courses in this part of Michigan tend to reward placement over raw power, with autumn rounds offering some of the most visually compelling golf in the Midwest as the hardwoods turn through October.

For golfers in the Ann Arbor–Brighton corridor, Timber Trace represents the kind of accessible, full-length public option that anchors a local golf community — a place where regulars develop real familiarity with every dogleg, and where visitors get an honest taste of Michigan's inland lake country.