North at Tanglewood The Lion

Tanglewood Golf Club's North Course is located in South Lyon, Michigan, a community in the western Detroit metropolitan area where rolling terrain and mature hardwood forests provide natural settings for golf. Designed by Bill Newcomb, a Michigan-based architect who has worked extensively throughout the Great Lakes region, the course reflects the practical, playable design philosophy common to mid-Michigan daily-fee facilities developed in the latter decades of the twentieth century.

The routing takes advantage of the area's gentle elevation changes and wooded corridors, with fairways carved through stands of oak, maple, and pine. Water features appear on several holes, typical of courses built in this region where wetlands and ponds are integrated into the layout both for strategic interest and environmental management. The design emphasizes accessibility for a range of skill levels while presenting enough variety in hole lengths and hazard placement to reward thoughtful course management.

South Lyon sits in an area where golf development expanded significantly from the 1970s through the 1990s, serving both local residents and golfers from the broader Detroit area seeking affordable options outside the urban core. Tanglewood operates as a public facility, and the North Course shares the property with additional golf offerings, a common model for Michigan courses aiming to accommodate high seasonal demand during the state's relatively short playing season. The course provides straightforward tree-lined golf in a setting characteristic of southeastern Michigan's suburban-rural transition zone.