Golf in Allendale

Allendale is an Ottawa County township community west of Grand Rapids that has grown dramatically with Grand Valley State University's Allendale Campus, a major state university whose presence has transformed what was primarily an agricultural community into one of the fastest-growing higher-education communities in western Michigan. The university's enrollment of more than twenty thousand students gives Allendale a distinctly collegiate character, and the surrounding community has developed the commercial and residential infrastructure to serve both the student population and the growing faculty and professional community that a major university anchor attracts. Golf in Allendale serves a market that benefits from the university's presence and the broader Ottawa County residential population that has grown with the west Michigan suburban expansion.