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A Natural Fit

Dick Aginian brings a wealth of experience to his role as GAM president

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It was at Huntington Woods’ Rackham Golf Course that Dick Aginian, the Golf Association of Michigan’s president for 2025, was first introduced to the game. His uncles began inviting him to play on weekends. “[They] would get there early to get the tee times, and my job was to bring doughnuts, which I bought from Amy Joy Donuts on Woodward and 10 Mile,” Aginian says. “In the beginning, I was better at getting doughnuts than at golf.”

Aginian also took lessons through a Detroit Free Press program with Rackham’s longtime and revered golf professional Ben Davis. “I don’t recall any specific tips from Ben,” he says, “but like my uncles, he got me excited about golf.”

Aginian grew up in Royal Oak, graduated from its public high school, and then attended Wayne State. He went on to earn an MBA in accounting and finance from Rutgers University in New Jersey before settling back in Detroit, where he worked as an accountant. One of his clients was Phil Power, owner of the suburban Observer newspapers. After Power merged his newspapers with the Eccentric newspapers in Oakland County, he hired Aginian to help. “Phil needed a financial guy, and that turned out to be me,” Aginian says. The relationship lasted 30 years, and Aginian eventually served as president and CEO.

Aginian’s success in business allowed him to join Oakland Hills Country Club. Perhaps his most memorable experience there was making a hole-in-one at the demanding par-3 ninth hole on the South Course. About the ace, Aginian recalls playing with his wife of 58 years, Diane, on Memorial Day, when the club was crowded with members, many of whom were outside enjoying a barbecue. He hit his tee shot on the ninth hole but couldn’t see the ball because the sun was directly in his eyes. “All of sudden, people are yelling and jumping up and down because my ball went in the hole,” Aginian recalls.

“Whether golfers play at a private club, at a public course, or only at a simulator, they should and will find value in being a GAM member. That’s why I’m confident the GAM will serve 100,000 members this year.”

—Dick Aginian, GAM president

“I also remember how fast the members raced into the bar for a drink on my tab!” he adds with a laugh.

Serving on committees for several major tournaments at Oakland Hills, including a U.S. Open and the Ryder Cup, Aginian became friends with fellow member Jim Judge, who first introduced him to the GAM. He then met with David Graham, the executive director at the time. “I told David I enjoyed playing golf but wanted to get more involved and give

back,” Aginian says. “Being a pretty good businessman and knowing my way around numbers, serving on the GAM Finance Committee seemed like a natural fit.” And it was, as he served with distinction on that committee (and others) as a member, as chair, and later as treasurer and officer of the GAM.

In those roles, Aginian supported GAM efforts to reach out and embrace a broader golf community.

“Whether golfers play at a private club, at a public course, or only at a simulator, they should and will find value in being a GAM member,” he says. “That’s why I’m confident the GAM will serve 100,000 members this year.”

Looking ahead to his term as president, Aginian is grateful for all the work done by his predecessors and the GAM staff. “While serving on other boards, I’ve learned the president’s primary job is to help the staff succeed while not helping them too much and becoming a distraction.”

Along with bringing sound judgment, a dedication to the GAM, and a way with numbers to his role, he’ll also help by bringing the doughnuts — on his tab.

2025 GAM President Dick Aginian

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Remembering Jim Briegel

Memorial golf outing helps friend honor Hall of Fame golfer and “great person”

BY GREG JOHNSON

Not long before Michigan Golf Hall of Famer Jim Briegel passed away from cancer last June at the age of 98, he discussed with his best friend, Billy Green, a golf outing that could be held in his memory after his passing.

Green, who had prompted the conversation, says Briegel agreed but with two conditions.

First, having been deeply moved during a golf round with Green at American Dunes Golf Club in Grand Haven, Briegel wanted any funds raised to go to the Folds of Honor Foundation, which presents scholarships to children of fallen soldiers and first responders.

And second, the self-effacing, usually smiling Ann Arbor man wanted the tournament to acknowledge one of his nicknames, “The Freak.”

Briegel, certainly in golf, could be described as a freak of nature. He hit the ball freakishly long off the tee, even as a senior player and still over 200 yards in his 90s, and he had made shooting better than his age a constant occurrence since turning 70.

He remained a near scratch golfer for most of his life. He shot a celebrated 72 at age 96, and instead of regarding the shooting of his age as an accomplishment, Briegel adopted a motto he delivered with a laugh: “If I ever shoot my age, I’m quitting.”

Of course, he also had the résumé that had prompted his election to the Michigan

“Everywhere we went, he loved meeting people and making friends, and every time he played, he proved that golf is a game for people of any age.”

—Billy Green, friend of late Michigan Golf Hall of Famer Jim Briegel

Golf Hall of Fame in 2011. It included his first big win in 1944 at the Ann Arbor Junior Championship as well as his being the only golfer to have won the junior, men’s, and senior men’s titles in Ann Arbor.

He also was known for his standout play as a publinxer and an amateur golfer; he played in four U.S. Amateur

Public Links Championships as well as two U.S. Senior Amateurs and one U.S. Senior Open.

He even took his game overseas, winning the 70-plus division of the British Senior Open-Amateur in 1996. At home, he won three Michigan Publinx Seniors Golf Association (MPSGA) OpenAmateur Championships.

And he gave back to the game, co-founding the MPSGA and serving as president for four years. The MPSGA today honors its best player each year with the Briegel Cup.

Green, who had taken well over 50 golf trips with Briegel over the last 15 years, approached management at the University of Michigan Golf Course, where Briegel had worked a little in the shop and played a lot of golf in his senior years. The outing was added, and the first of what Green is planning as an annual

Jim Briegel

Billy Green

gathering was presented in September 2024.

With help and support from Briegel’s family and friends, the outing sold out (144 golfers) in just 13 days. The golf went off without a hitch, Green created a trophy called “The Freak,” and $15,000 was raised for Folds of Honor.

Green says he was elated with the outing response and that another is in the planning stages. He also honored his friend by following through on a suggestion from Briegel.

“Jim told me I should play

in the [GAM Mid-Amateur Championship, senior division], and so I teed it up; didn’t play great, but got around and had fun,” Green says. “He knew I would like it. We really got to know each other well over the last 15 years. He was my best friend. We could talk about anything, not just golf.”

Sometimes the discussions centered on facing hurdles in life and even facing down death.

“In the end, I think Jim would want to be remembered as a great person more than

Style Standout

Chad Johnson brings a distinct flair and a big heart to the game of golf

BY RENÉE T. WALKER

Chad Johnson is a unique presence on the Michigan golf scene, known for his vibrant style and unwavering commitment to the community. As a passionate, competitive golf enthusiast and Michigan Publinx Golf Association board member, he brings a distinct flair and an infectious energy to the sport.

Johnson joined his first golf team during his senior year of high school. His dedication paid off, and he walked on to the golf teams at Schoolcraft College and, eventually, Wayne State. At Wayne, he was ranked in the top five for a year and a half and was a member of the first team to compete at a national championship in 90 years.

Known for his eye-catching Loudmouth shirts, featuring everything from hot dogs to dinosaurs, and his brightly colored Air Jordans, Johnson stands out both on and off the course.

His bold style reflects his personality: a blend of authenticity, tenacity, and a commitment to service. After years of playing competitively, Johnson is driven by a desire to increase golf participation, especially among younger players.

Last year, Johnson joined the MPGA board to help revitalize the game’s appeal, bringing fresh ideas to draw younger competitors via social media and throughout the competitive golf community. His initiatives are already

anything, but also as a great husband [married 71 years to Gerry, who died in 2016],” Green says. “He would talk nonstop about how he was lucky in marriage, that he found a good one, and I couldn’t have asked for a better friend and guy to play golf with. We made at least 50 trips together, played hundreds of rounds.

“At the outing, you could tell a lot of people remembered him as more than a golfer. Bill Zylstra and Sara Wold, who are in the Hall of Fame with him,

showing results, including a recent championship tournament boasting a full bracket for the first time in years and a noticeable uptick in players under the age of 23. He also serves as a volunteer assistant coach of the Wayne State men’s golf team.

were speakers with others at the outing, and everybody talked about what a nice guy he was, how kind he was, how he laughed and smiled.”

Green thinks that beyond the trophies and decades of amazing scores and long bomb tee shots, Briegel loved golf for the camaraderie it provided.

“Everywhere we went, he loved meeting people and making friends,” he says, “and every time he played, he proved that golf is a game for people of any age.”

Beyond the greens, Johnson’s dedication continues through his leadership of a local “Night to Shine,” an event established by the Tim Tebow Foundation and hosted by local churches around the world. Johnson and his wife, Julie Johnson, coordinate a prom experience for individuals with special needs and their parents and caregivers at the 2|42 Community Church in Livonia. They first volunteered for the event in 2018 at their previous church.

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who are a vital part of making this night happen. We put our hearts into this because everyone deserves a night where they feel like the most important person in the world. It’s an experience they’ll remember, and that makes every bit of effort worth it.”

“Seeing our guests’ faces light up when they walk down the red carpet — that’s what it’s all about,” says Johnson, reflecting on the experience. “It’s pure joy, and it means everything to Julie, myself, our loyal volunteers and sponsors

The couple continually innovate to make the event more memorable for their 160 guests, parents, caregivers, and volunteers. In 2024, Johnson built a castle-themed entrance with towers and a drawbridge for a magical red-carpet experience. Each guest was celebrated as they were escorted by Detroit Lions players and cheered by friends, family, and community members.

Chad Johnson

Iron Sharpens Iron

Close friends Lauren Davis and Macie Elzinga challenge each other on the golf course

BY TONY PAUL

Golf has been a passion of Lauren Davis’s and Macie Elzinga’s since both individuals were very young — Davis started around preschool age, and Elzinga got going when she was 8. The sport, ultimately, led them to their respective colleges.

Before that, though, the sport also led them to each other. It’s how they’ve become such good friends. They got paired together at a junior tournament early in high school, and then they got paired together at another junior event the next year.

“Then,” says Davis, 19, “our friendship just took off.”

“We had a course to play all the time, and the two of us just started hanging out and golfing a lot,” Elzinga says. “We played together all the time.”

They played together, and they challenged each other, too.

“We both are pretty competitive,” Davis says. “Every time we go out and play, we’re going hard and doing our best to push each other to get better.”

Michigan. Bowling Green finished second, and Central Michigan third; Elzinga tied for 12th, and Davis tied for 24th.

“It felt like a reunion,” Davis says.

Not that they are apart for extended periods of time, even though they’re at different schools. They’re together in the summer and they’re together for the holidays, when they’re back home. Much of that time is spent playing golf.

“She’s really good at pushing me to keep going and keep grinding. That’s what I really like about her.”

“I saw her determination in golf and the goals she had,” says Elzinga, 18, “and I was like, ‘I need some of those.’”

Since the girls lived pretty close together in West Michigan — Elzinga attended Byron Center High School and Davis went to Coopersville High School — the friendship proved to be a natural fit.

That, of course, and their love of golf.

Davis’s dad is Ray Davis, PGA director of instruction at Spring Lake Country Club, where Davis and Elzinga both practice — almost every day, together, in the summer months when they’re not competing in the Golf Association of Michigan’s tournaments and other events.

—Lauren Davis, golfer at Central Michigan

Got better, they did.

Elzinga went on to win the Division 2 state championship in 2022, and Davis won the Division 2 state title in 2023, after finishing fifth in 2022 and fourth in 2021.

Their success has extended beyond high school, too. In 2023, at Spring Lake CC, Davis reached the Sweet 16 of the Michigan Women’s Amateur, and in 2024, Elzinga reached the semifinals.

Davis has gone on to play golf at Central Michigan, and Elzinga now is playing at Bowling Green. They were squaring off against each other again in the fall of 2024, at the A-Ga-Ming Invitational in northern

“How many days are there in a year?” says Elzinga, laughing. “We play together all the time. ... Last night, we played a round on the simulator.”

They have their own coaches, at home and at college. And they also have each other.

“Oh, yeah,” says Davis, who has a 0.6 handicap. “Sometimes [it’s like], ‘Can you just tell me I’m fine?’”

“It’s totally true,” says Elzinga, who carries a +1.9 index. “That happened yesterday.”

“She’s really good at pushing me to keep going and keep grinding,” Davis adds. “That’s what I really like about her.”

Golf is to thank for this beautiful friendship. And if you ask Elzinga and Davis, it’s a friendship that, really, is just getting started.

“We’re going to play golf when we’re 80,” Davis says. “We’re going to be in the ladies’ leagues!”

Lauren Davis Macie Elzinga

When he’s not running his Dairy Queens, former baseballer Mike Ignasiak is hitting the links.

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the country, it’s kind of cool.”

Stadium,” Ignasiak says.

Former major leaguer Mike Ignasiak finds his competitive fix on the links these days

BY TONY PAUL

Mike Ignasiak made it to The Show.

But at age 30, after injuring his back during spring training in 1996, the relief pitcher found himself retired from Major League Baseball.

Needing something to give him his competitive fix, he turned to golf — and that, as it turns out, has done the trick. Ignasiak has won multiple times on the Golf Association of Michigan circuit, and in 2024, he finished runner-up to Wixom’s Leo Daigle for GAM Senior Men’s Player of the Year.

“I got out of baseball when I was 30 and I took a year off to heal my back; then I played golf,” says Ignasiak, a Saline resident who was an eighthround draft pick for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1988. “I was terrible at first but addicted.

“I needed something to compete with. I always was an outside guy, and I needed to get out, but I couldn’t run or pitch anymore. I needed something. The competition [of golf], hanging out with the guys, meeting all kinds of guys out there from all over

Ignasiak grew up in metro Detroit and attended St. Mary’s Preparatory in Orchard Lake before going on to play baseball at the University of Michigan, where he was drafted in the fourth round of the 1987 draft by the St. Louis Cardinals. He opted to stay in school and signed with the Brewers the following year.

He debuted with the Brewers in 1991 and became a mainstay in their bullpen in 1993 before retiring after the 1995 season. He didn’t play a ton of golf back then, but if there was a convenient off-day on the road, he sometimes hit the links with his teammates, like Hall of Famer Robin Yount, Jesse Orosco, or Bill Spiers. Pitchers often make the best golfers in baseball because they have more time to play, not worried about messing up their hitting swing. Starting pitchers, Ignasiak says, “had the time,” pitching every fourth or fifth day, so they tended to play more than he did.

After retiring from baseball (he had a 4.80 ERA in 79 games), he returned to Michigan full time and eventually took golf more seriously. He qualified for his first Michigan Amateur Championship in 1998 and “got a rude awakening.” He also qualified for the 2000 U.S. Amateur Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club in New Jersey and was “way over [his] skis.”

“I was more nervous on that tee box than pitching in Yankee

By 2007, Ignasiak was a GAM champion, winning the Michigan Mid-Amateur. He made the finals of the 2013 Michigan Amateur, losing the last match, 1-up, to fellow U-M alum Andrew Chapman of Traverse City. Ignasiak has found success on the senior circuit recently, winning the GAM Senior Match Play Championship in 2023 and claiming the GAM Senior Four-Ball Championship with brother-in-law Randy Frederick in 2021.

He figures he plays in about six or seven tournaments a year, mostly the GAM’s, though he’s played more than a dozen USGA events over the years (it’s still his chief goal to qualify for the U.S. Senior Open Championship some day). And that’s about all the playing he does. He mostly just practices — an hour a day, three times a week — at Stonebridge Golf Club in Ann Arbor. He can’t do much more; he’s busy owning some local Dairy Queens.

“I trade ice-cream cones for golf balls,” says Ignasiak, who carries a +2.1 handicap, of his practice sessions at Stonebridge.

Ignasiak doesn’t follow baseball much anymore, but he looks back fondly on the run he had in The Show.

“One of the best experiences ever right there,” he says. “Met a lot of great people and got to live my dream.”

He’s still chasing the dream, albeit a new one.

In Her Happy Place

Southfield’s Liz Houston enjoys golf and working at Carl’s Golfland

BY GREG JOHNSON

More than 25 years ago, Liz Houston, then working as an over-the-counter health products account specialist for Bristol Myers Squibb, asked why female buyers were not included on an annual work/ golf trip to Pinehurst, North Carolina.

“I was told there were no women buyers who played golf,” she says. “Then I asked, ‘If women took golf lessons, would you take them on the trip?’ They said they would, and that’s when I took lessons and became a golfer. I was 49 then.”

Houston, 77, who lives in Southfield and is now retired from the health care industry, is more involved in golf than the average Golf Association of Michigan member. She works part time as a head cashier and trainer at Carl’s Golfland in addition to playing in golf leagues and competing in tournaments. Houston and playing partner Yvette Johnson won the Murray Flight at the 2024 GAM

Women’s Four-Ball Championship.

“I work about 16 hours a week at Carl’s and a few more during holidays or demo days,” says Houston, who is also a trained pediatric nurse practitioner. “I enjoy being around the people there, being around golfers. I work when it doesn’t interfere with my golf.”

The mother of one daughter, grandmother of two, and great grandmother to six says golf gives her joy.

“Joy, peace of mind, exercise, friendship,” she says. “I have two happy places: a golf course and gardening.”

Golf is an escape for Liz Houston, who competes in GAM tournaments and works part time at rl s ol n

and birdies. My game is to do my best to beat the golf course. That’s what I enjoy.”

She ended up at Carl’s post-retirement when one of her golf league playing partners, also retired, asked her if she would be interested in working part time in golf.

“I was staying home most of the time in Michigan, and you can’t golf all year here,” Houston says. “I gave it a try, and I enjoy it.”

“I have two happy places: a golf course and gardening.”

Until her best friend, Verna Jawneski, passed away 10 years ago, she traveled around the country to play golf, too.

—Golfer Liz Houston

“She was my travel partner, and she passed away from cancer,” Houston says. “We took golf trips — a lot of trips. Trips to Florida every February, trips all over the Midwest. We enjoyed traveling together for golf.”

Houston says she loves golf because it is not something that can be mastered easily.

“It’s you and the golf course and what you bring that determines how you perform that day,” she says. “I like that in golf you can compete against the course. I don’t worry about how many putts I had or how many pars

Houston has a current USGA Handicap Index® of 19.3, and about 15 years ago, she made her one and only hole-in-one at Boulder Pointe Golf Club in October.

“I’m still looking for another,” she says. “That’s golf. You keep trying to hit that perfect shot.”

Her best golf experience ever unfolded a few years ago at Hawk Hollow Golf Course near East Lansing.

“I was just in a zone that day, hitting good shots, making putts,” she says. “One of the girls I was playing with noticed and commented, ‘You are playing above your handicap.’ I told her I realized it, but I didn’t want to think too much about it and bother it. It was fun and memorable. It ended up being one of those perfect days with perfect weather and perfect golf.”

Once a Golfer,

Always a Golfer

Multitalented athlete Lindsey Boyle always comes back to the green

BY TONY PAUL

Lindsey Boyle recently gave a toast at the celebration of her parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. During her speech, she simply couldn t resist reminding her mom, Debbie Kohn, that the golf cra y family now had three club champions at lythefield Country Club following oyle s victory in 202 . oyle s dad, Mi e Kohn, and brother, ason Kohn, had won their own championships at the club outside of Grand apids previously.

I said to my mom, Hey, no pressure, but come on!’” Boyle recalls joking. “We’re a competitive family.”

oyle, a longtime Golf Association of Michigan member, got into competitive golf at the urging of fellow lythefield member Deb ogers, who had gotten into competitive golf herself in her 50s. Interestingly, Boyle rallied on the last day to beat ogers in the club championship last year.

She would say to me, Show up — we ve got to promote the game for more women,’ and I took that to heart,” says Boyle, 42, who is a technical sales rep in Grand apids. I figured if I can do it, maybe I’m inspirational for someone else to show up and shoot 110.

I love to play in the tournaments. very year, I say I’m never doing it again, and then I show up. I m not coming bac tomorrow, but I always do. There are so few women my age playing these tournaments. It s important to do hard things.”

“I love to play in the tournaments. … There are so few women my age playing these tournaments. It’s important to do hard things.”

—Lindsey Boyle, 2024 Blythefield Country Club champion

Lifetime Sports Fan

Boyle grew up in a golf family but thrived in other sports, too; she played point guard in basketball and was a long jumper and a sprinter in high school. Track and field, back then, was played in the spring at the same time as golf, so she had to designate one her primary sport. That, for her, was golf. One time, track and field state finals conflicted with golf regionals, so she had to skip the state finals.

She went on to play college basketball, first at Ferris State and then at Aquinas. At both schools, she was asked to play golf, too, but she declined.

She picked the game back up semiseriously out of college, when she began testing her tournament chops, first at the state mid-amateur level. It didn’t go great.

“I played horribly and signed up again the next year,” she says. “Same kind of thing.”

Boyle, like many just out of college, was busy with her new life and didn’t have much time to practice. She had just gotten married to Michael Boyle (a golfer himself, no surprise). She was teaching history at East Kentwood High School and was asked to coach the girls’ golf team. She had done some volunteering with First Tee — West Michigan, so she said yes. She also was coaching freshman girls’ basketball. She found herself begging the basketball players to give golf a shot.

“At first, it was hard. Golf is difficult for girls in general. It’s not seen as a social sport,” Boyle says. “It’s an intimidating sport, and it’s hard. It’s not an easy thing.”

Boyle coached two years of junior varsity golf and then four years of varsity golf before handing off the program. She eventually switched careers as well, and then the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

Golfer at Heart

It was during that time period, with so much shut down besides golf, that she rediscovered her love for the game. She started playing five or six times a week, and she still is playing three times a week. She is back playing GAM tournaments regularly (three or four a year) and is in a weekly league. She’s part of the Grand Rapids Women’s Golf Association as well.

And, of course, she’s now a club champ, having done it with her husband on the bag. (That, she jokes, was the ultimate test of their marriage.)

Winning at Blythefield was extra special because the club annually hosts one of the most popular LPGA tournaments, the Meijer LPGA Classic, which has been a boon for girls’ and women’s golf in Michigan.

“There are women at every tournament [who say], ‘This is my first tournament,’ and I hope they saw my score. ‘If this lady can do it ...,’” jokes Boyle, who carries a 9.1 handicap these days. “I always tell women, ‘Go sign up.’ This isn’t just how you perform. If you have a daughter, it’s how they’re seeing you play.

“Every day I’m able to play golf, … I’m going to play golf.”

Lindsey Boyle

Opening Doors with Golf

The founders of PárCinco are giving back to the Southwest Detroit community

BY RENÉE T. WALKER

PárCinco™ (PárCinco) is changing the game for Latino youth in Southwest Detroit. Founded by Rico Razo; Antonio Moura Mills; and brothers Luís, Jesús, and Francisco Hernández, PárCinco started as a shared interest in golf among longtime friends and baseball buddies.

As their interest in golf deepened, they noticed a lack of representation of — and resources available to — Latino youth in Southwest Detroit. In response, they founded PárCinco with a core mission: to bridge the gap in golf’s accessibility and inspire young Latinos to embrace the game.

For the founders, golf has opened doors to networking opportunities, career growth, and community connections. They want the next generation to benefit similarly and are paving pathways for youth from high schools like Detroit Cristo Rey and Western International to enjoy the game, learn invaluable life lessons, develop personal and professional skills, and receive mentorship.

“Golf opened so many doors for

me and my friends, and now we’re focused on using it to open doors for Latino youth in our city,” Razo says. “We know the value of opportunity and are determined to make golf a path to success and community for the next generation.”

In 2021, PárCinco hosted its inaugural charity golf outing at Rouge Park Golf Course and donated the proceeds to Western International High School to help start a golf program and purchase clubs. The outing has become an annual affair that continues to evolve. In 2023, PárCinco hosted a golf clinic in partnership with First Tee — Greater Detroit, attracting approximately 50 young people and their parents. The founders have since undertaken an ambitious goal of raising $75,000 to build an outdoor chipping and putting practice area at Clark Park. This would provide a dedicated space for First Tee — Greater Detroit to run youth clinics, offering local kids a place to learn and practice golf close to home.

PárCinco’s impact goes beyond youth sports. The PárCinco team

Pá rCinco hosted a successful youth golf clinic in partnership with First Tee — Greater Detroit at Clark Park in Southwest Detroit in 2023.

also has helped transform Rouge Park Golf Course into a hub for community events, encouraging other organizations — including Marathon Oil, which raised $200,000 for Habitat for Humanity Detroit — to host charity outings there. Additionally, the PárCinco founders have encouraged their friends to join the Golf Association of Michigan, and they regularly post their golf scores, decreasing their handicaps from the high 20s to the low teens within a few years.

Donations, sponsorships, and volunteers are all welcome in the effort to make golf more inclusive and impactful for Southwest Detroit’s youth. To learn more about PárCinco or support its mission, visit parcincogolf.com

“Golf opened so many doors for me and my friends, and now we’re focused on using it to open doors for Latino youth in our city. We know the value of opportunity and are determined to make golf a path to success and community for the next generation.”

—Rico Razo, co-founder of PárCinco

Thank you!

Come Join Us.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer with the GAM, please visit GAM.org.

GAM volunteers during the 2024 season (left to right, top to bottom): GAM Gov. Francine Pegues is all smiles out on the course; 20242025 GAM President Judy Lazzaro presents Connor Fox with the Wright Memorial Trophy at the Michigan Junior State Amateur Championship; tournament volunteer Tom Parker discusses options during a ruling; GAM volunteer Tracey Sperry spots a tee shot; GAM Vice President Barry Babbitt walks a match at the U.S. Junior Amateur; volunteer Marty Score measures the course with the GAM course rating team; Honorary Gov. Mick Kildea gives a ruling to a junior golfer; tournament volunteer Doug Stranahan shares a laugh out on the course; GAM course rater Amy Schubert surveys the course; and GAM volunteer John Wilson takes a minute to smile for the camera.

The GAM is grateful to our over 200 dedicated volunteers who love the game and help us support amateur golf in the state.

SHORES GOLF COURSE

A ‘Win-Win’ Tournament

Red Run will host the 125th Women’s Western Amateur in July

/ BY PAULA PASCHE

Many of the best amateur and college players in the world will compete in the 2025 Women’s Western Amateur at Red Run Golf Club in Royal Oak from July 14 to July 19.

This will be the first time the Women’s Western Amateur will have been held in Michigan since 2012, when it was played at Monroe Golf & Country Club. The event has been held every year without interruption since 1901.

Considered one of the top four women’s amateur events in the world, the Women’s Western Amateur will bring more prestige to the 111-year-old Red Run Golf Club.

“It does bring some pride to a club that’s … supported [competitive golf], whether with GAM or the Michigan Section PGA or other things,” says Wally Sierakowski, Red Run’s PGA head golf pro. “We’ve always supported golf at different levels.”

The field will be similar to that of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur held every spring, featuring the top U.S. amateurs, college players, and some international amateurs, too.

“The membership will be greatly involved,” Sierakowski says. “We’ll also reach out to the golfing community.”

Committees have been set up to cover hospitality, housing, golf course volunteers for scoring, shuttling, and spotters.

Sierakowski sees the tournament as a great opportunity for the club, which hosted the Western Junior in 2016.

“Members engage in it; it allows them to meet and get to know each of the players,” he says. “It’s a winwin for the players to be able to come to a place like ours, which is really golf focused.”

Sierakowski says the golf course sets up perfectly with the distance, layout, and shotmaking. The tournament director is expected to visit in the spring to go over the course setup, which will likely play between 6,300 and 6,500 yards.

“It’s a win-win for the players to be able to come to a place like ours, which is really golf focused.”

—Wally Sierakowski, Red Run’s PGA head golf pro

“We can play as short as 5,000 and as long as 7,000,” Sierakowski says. “The target yardage for them fits perfectly for us. The distances are great on the par 3, par 5s. It’s going to be a golf course they’re going to love.”

The first three days will be stroke play to qualify for match play, which starts on Thursday and ends with the final match on Saturday.

Red Run Golf Club

In the ‘Michigan Swing’ of Things

The Epson Tour adds a third event at The Heather

/ BY PAULA PASCHE

The Epson Tour, the official qualifying tour for the LPGA, will add a third Michigan stop this summer.

The Great Lakes Championship at The Highlands will be held June 13–15 at The Heather in Harbor Springs; 132–144 of the top female golfers will compete. This new event joins two other tour events: the FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship in Battle Creek and the Island Resort Championship in Harris in the Upper Peninsula.

The Epson Tour worked with the Great Lakes Sports Commission in making the tournament happen.

“From my understanding, they did an exhaustive search in the area to find the right property,” says Jody Brothers, the Epson Tour’s chief business and operations officer. “Definitely, that golf course fits the quality we’re looking for.”

The three Epson Tour events — collectively called the Michigan Swing — will be held over the course of three weeks.

“For the athletes, it’s an exciting little stretch of really high-quality golf courses combined with a very convenient travel schedule allowing them to fly into the area and not hop on another plane for three weeks,” Brothers says.

Playing in Michigan is a highlight for the athletes as well, he adds.

“I would say for many of the athletes, it’s the section of the schedule they put a big circle around because all three golf courses are really, really good, they have outstanding sponsors, and playing golf in Michigan is hard to beat,” he says. “It’s a beautiful time of year there.”

Some of the biggest names on the LPGA Tour — including Nelly Korda, Lydia Ko, and Céline Boutier — are graduates of the Epson Tour.

“You don’t know who [these golfers] are today, but you’ll certainly know who they

are tomorrow. You’ll be able to say, ‘I saw them when …,’” Brothers says. “That’s a cool trademark of the Epson Tour, unless they’re regional: You might not know who they are, but you will as soon as they get to be LPGA and prove themselves.”

Over the course of the season, the golfers compete for playing positions that will happen on the LPGA the following year. The top 15 athletes get status for the LPGA Tour for the upcoming season. Brothers says it’s the equivalent of the Korn Ferry Tour for the PGA.

Since it opened in 1966, The Heather has hosted multiple tournaments, including Michigan Amateurs and American Junior Golf Association championships. The Heather was named the 2018 Golf Course of the Year by the Michigan Golf Course Association and the 2019 National Golf Course of the Year by the National Golf Course Owners Association.

“Definitely, that golf course fits the quality we’re looking for.”

—Jody Brothers, Epson Tour rep

The Heather was Boyne Golf’s first course and is widely credited as the spark that started the golf boom in northern Michigan. The course, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., is considered one of the best championship courses in the country.

“Hosting this prominent event underscores our commitment to golf and further highlights northern Michigan as a premier destination for exceptional golf,” said Mike Chumbler, president and general manager of The Highlands, per an Epson Tour press release. “The beauty of northern Michigan, coupled with the high level of competition the Epson Tour offers, will make this a memorable event for players and spectators alike.”

The Heather, hole 18

Award-Winning Trio

A journalist, a businessman, and an amateur golf champion join the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame

The Michigan Golf Hall of Fame grew by three this past fall with the inductions of awardwinning journalist Greg Johnson, businessman Stephen Kircher, and amateur golf champion Kevin VandenBerg.

Johnson, 67, worked for almost 30 years with The Grand Rapids Press and is currently a media consultant for the state’s most prominent golf associations, including the Golf Association of Michigan. He has authored newspaper and magazine stories on all aspects of the game and has covered Michigan’s biggest golf tournaments for four decades.

During his newspaper career, he wrote columns covering sports at every level in Michigan and nationally as well, including major championship golf, the Olympic

Games, and Super Bowls.

A longtime committee member of the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame, Johnson was instrumental in establishing its new home at Ferris State. He currently serves as chairperson and president of the Michigan Golf Foundation.

Kircher, 59, is the president and CEO of Boyne Resorts in Boyne Falls. He followed in the footsteps of his father, fellow Michigan Golf Hall of Famer Everett Kircher, in leading the largest family-owned four-season resort company in North America. They are the third parent-child duo in the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame, joining Bruce Matthews and Jerry Matthews, and Pete Green and Suzy Green-Roebuck.

Kircher was a player first, winning an individual state high school championship

for Boyne City High, earning letters at two universities (Northwestern and Michigan State), and maintaining a scratch handicap for over 30 years.

His numerous contributions to golf include leading efforts to grow and develop the industry in Michigan. He is a past chair of the Michigan Travel Commission, a founding member of the America’s Summer Golf Capital Association, a co-founder of the unique Tournament of Champions, and a co-designer of the Hills Course and Bay Harbor Golf Club courses.

VandenBerg, 58, has demonstrated playing excellence at state and national levels. The former Kalamazoo Golf Association president most notably is the only golfer to win the Michigan Amateur, the GAM Championship, and the GAM Mid-Amateur Championship in the same year (2000).

He moved to Pulaski, New York, in 2007 and focused on building a financial management business, but after turning 55, he started playing in senior competitions, including two U.S. Senior Opens and two U.S. Senior Amateurs. He was runner-up in Golfweek’s Senior Player of the Year rankings in 2022 before being named Golfweek’s Senior Player of the Year in 2023, a year in which he had 13 top five finishes in 20 tournament starts.

VandenBerg regularly returns to play in Michigan tournaments by maintaining his GAM membership, and in 2024 he won the GAM Senior Match Play Championship.

LIV GOLF TOURCOMES TO MICHIGAN

Professional golf tour stops in Michigan continue to grow as the LIV Golf Tour announced earlier this year that it would be coming to Michigan for the first time.

LIV Golf’s Team Championship will be held at The Cardinal in Plymouth Township from Aug. 22 to 24. The Car-

dinal at Saint John’s Resort opened in 2024, the first championship course to open to the public in metro Detroit in over two decades. Designed by Raymond Hearn and owned by the Pulte

Family Charitable Foundation, the par-72 course at just over 7,000 yards should provide an exciting challenge for the competitors.

“Hosting the LIV Golf Team Championship marks a defining moment for Saint John’s Resort,” Kevin Doyle, chief operating officer for the Pulte Family Charitable Foundation, told The Detroit News. “We look forward to welcoming the world to our grounds and building on this momentum to establish Saint John’s as a premier destination for future international events.”

Stephen Kircher Kevin VandenBerg Greg Johnson

The Cardinal at Saint John’s Resort

New for 2025 – the Golf Association of Michigan is bringing you expanded coverage of amateur golf with three extra editions of Michigan Links in a professional, digital format.

New editorial content, tournament results, information on the GAM Foundation, and GAM Partner content will highlight our summer coverage, culminating in a season recap in the fall covering the GAM Players of the Year and other important news from the championships season. Watch for it in your email inbox!

Awards

2024–25 GAM AWARDS

GAM COURSE RATER OF THE YEAR: KURT VISNISKI OF GRAND BLANC

Kurt Visniski of Grand Blanc finds it hard to believe he is the Golf Association of Michigan’s 2024 Course Rater of the Year.

“When [Hunter Koch, GAM director of course rating] was announcing the rater of the year, he had all the previous winners raise their hands,” Visniski recalls of a fall awards and golf gathering. “I remember thinking, ‘That is quite a group — the best raters out there. I look up to all of them.’ Then he made the announcement, and it still feels unreal that I’m part of that group now.”

Visniski, a 63-year-old retired mechanical engineer, is a GAM member with his wife, Lisa Stewart-Visniski (a fellow course rater), through Flint Elks Country Club.

The award is presented annually to the course rater who demonstrates outstanding proficiency with the Course Rating System™ and is committed to helping grow and develop the GAM Course Rating Program.

“Kurt is well known among our raters for keeping an exceptionally neat Form 1,” Koch said in making the official announcement. “He is easy to work with, extremely approachable, and very helpful to those on his teams. He is also willing

to share his opinion at green meetings, and he makes many observations on the course that are often easy to miss for other raters. More than anything else, Kurt’s active dedication to continuous learning has made him and all our rating teams better at what we do.”

GAM DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD: MICHIGAN GOLF HALL OF FAME MEMBER DAVE KENDALL

Less than a year ago, Dave Kendall was newly diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer, and he didn’t think he would be alive for 2025.

Today, the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame PGA teaching professional, founder of the Kendall Golf Academy in Ypsilanti, and co-owner of Washtenaw Golf Club says the game of his life is still teaching him lessons.

“So many nice things have happened since then, and I’m glad I didn’t let myself think my life was over,” he says. “I started a regimen to keep living as long as I can. I get up each day and walk. I didn’t think I would play golf again, but I’m playing every day I can and enjoying it.”

Kendall, 70, has been named the GAM’s Distinguished Service Award winner for 2025. It’s the highest GAM honor.

Mary Jo Green, senior director of communications and operations for the GAM, nominated Kendall for the award, citing his unwavering dedication to the development of golfers at every level.

“Throughout his career, he has mentored and taught thousands of students, including many aspiring golf professionals,” she says. “He has given countless hours to developing lasting golfers in Michigan, and his commitment to growing the game is unparalleled.”

GAM CHAMPION OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION: THE JOANNE AND TED LINDSAY FOUNDATION AUTISM OUTREACH SERVICES AT OAKLAND UNIVERSITY

The Joanne and Ted Lindsay Foundation Autism Outreach Services at Oakland University has been named the GAM Champion of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for 2025.

The program, commonly referred to as OUCARES, includes the outreach services of the Oakland University Center for Autism. It was nominated for the GAM honor by Ashley Dewling, the golf services manager at the Oakland University Golf & Learning Center, who volunteers and serves the GAM as a governor and committee member.

says. “We give them the space and then they make it happen, especially Dennis [Laubach], the volunteer who directs it for them. You just have to see the faces of the golfers to see it is a remarkable thing.”

Becca Allard, the OUCARES program coordinator, says the program’s mission is to improve the quality of life of individuals with autism by offering highquality, comprehensive programs. She says it was surprising and exciting to be recognized by the GAM.

“Their volunteers use special golf instruction equipment — like targets, specially designed clubs, even tennis balls — to teach golf, and honestly, we just stay out of the way,” Dewling

“We do what we do regardless of recognition, but it is cool for us to be spotlighted like this, especially for our volunteers,” she says. “We are happy to put on a program that is inclusive and available to the population we serve, and we are so touched that Ashley nominated us.”

Kurt Visniski

Dave Kendall

A CENTURY AND COUNTING

Nine Michigan golf clubs and courses are celebrating their centennial in 2025: Belvedere Golf Club in Charlevoix, Calumet Golf Club, Dearborn Country Club, Huron Shores Golf Club in Port Sanilac, Idyl Wyld Golf Course in Livonia, Indianwood Golf & Country Club in Lake Orion, Inverness Country Club in Chelsea, Knollwood Country Club in West Bloomfield Township, and Rackham Golf Course in Huntington Woods. Cheers to 100 years!

GAM CLUB SERVICES REPRESENTATIVE OF THE YEAR: BRYAN HARRIS OF FOREST AKERS AT MICHIGAN STATE

Bryan Harris, the general manager at Michigan State’s Forest Akers golf courses and practice facilities, embarked on his career as a graduate of Ferris State’s professional golf management program in 2007 with plans to teach the game.

“Forest Akers took me in a different direction though,” he says. “I found I really enjoyed the challenge of running a golf operation, of figuring out creative ways to get things done and working with people who feel the same way.”

Harris, 42, a PGA professional who has served Forest Akers for his entire professional career and became general manager in 2017, has been named the 2025 GAM Club Services Representative of the Year.

“Bryan is a great ambassador of ours and for golf in Michigan,” says Ken Hartmann, senior director of competitions and USGA services for the GAM. “He gets it. He understands what we do and why, and he is always willing to help us out, host tournaments, and sees the value in bringing GAM golfers to the campus, especially the junior golfers. He goes above and beyond.”

CAREY MITCHELSON OF COLLEGE FIELDS GOLF CLUB

Carey Mitchelson, the director of operations at College Fields Golf Club in Okemos and executive director of the Michigan Turfgrass Foundation, has been involved in the golf industry for the last 50 years, learning, sharing, serving, and making friends.

“I found that even though it is a business and a sport, golf is also a place to meet people and make friends, the kind of friends that want you to be successful,” he says. “You can be a complete stranger on the first tee, but by the end of four hours, you have their phone number in your phone, and they become somebody you talk with often. I can’t think of another sport or business like that.”

Mitchelson, 68 and an Okemos resident, won the GAM Superintendent Award of Merit for 2025. The annual award, presented since 2011,

is bestowed upon a superintendent who has demonstrated leadership, professionalism, good character, and high standards of conduct through pursuits associated with golf course grounds maintenance and care.

Adam Ikamas, executive director of the Michigan Golf Course Superintendents Association, nominated Mitchelson.

“Nobody works harder than Carey, either out on the golf course or on the front end of the MTF,” he says. “I’ve heard about and later was part of stories regarding Carey’s influence and involvement in golf. If it happened on the turf side of Michigan golf, Carey was either a part of it or leading it. He embodies the spirit of the Award of Merit. His contributions, leadership, and dedication to Michigan’s golf industry and turf industry are unparalleled.”

GAM SUPERINTENDENT AWARD OF MERIT:

Carey Mitchelson

Bryan Harris

LINKED THROUGH HISTORY

Belvedere celebrates its centennial by hosting the Michigan Amateur for the 41st time / BY GREG

JOHNSON • PHOTOS BY PHILIP HUTCHINSON

Belvedere Golf Club in Charlevoix is celebrating its centennial and hosting another Michigan Amateur Championship in 2025.

Predestined?

Dennis “Marty” Joy, the head golf professional, who has a passion for the club’s history, felt that way and worked to make sure it would happen.

“In 2014, the last time Belvedere hosted the Amateur, I knew 2025 would get here faster than we might think, so I made the effort to get it on the books then that we would host in the centennial year,” Joy says. “It just seemed right that Belvedere celebrates its history with the tournament that is such a big part of the history of the club and Michigan golf.”

Cue the 114th Michigan Amateur June 17–21, which will be the 41st time the state’s top amateur championship will have been played on the classic golf course designed by Scotsman William Watson 100 years ago.

gan. “The older players will love it, and the younger guys will get what makes Belvedere special once they have played it.”

Membership of the golf club (220) remains today what it was a century ago: summer visitors from other states. Just six members are from Michigan.

“That was the way it was in 1925, a golf club for people who spent most of the summer in Charlevoix, and the families and members through the years have kept it that way,” Joy says. “It’s also part of the reason the Amateur works so well here. It’s played in June before July and August, when most of the members get here.”

“It just seemed right that Belvedere celebrates its history with the tournament that is such a big part of the history of the club and Michigan golf.”

—Dennis “Marty” Joy, Belvedere’s head golf pro

The second most frequent host sites of the state championship are Saginaw Country Club and the Country Club of Jackson. Each has welcomed the championship seven times.

“Belvedere certainly wanted to host this year — they made it clear in 2014 when we were there — and when a club like that wants you, and there’s all that history, it’s not a tough decision,” says Ken Hartmann, senior director of competitions and USGA services for the Golf Association of Michi-

The Ultimate Host Course

Watson designed a long and strong golf course, especially by the standards of the era. It played to an unheard-of 6,500 yards with just one tee pad on 17 of the 18 holes.

A friend and competitor of the top golfers in the world, Watson welcomed Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Horton Smith, and many others to tournaments at Belvedere. It developed a national reputation and understandably became the eighth club in Michigan to host the state’s best in the Michigan Amateur.

The 23rd version of the championship was played for the first time at Belvedere in 1930 and was won by 17-year-old Chuck Kocsis of Royal Oak, who is historically regarded as Michigan’s finest amateur golfer. He remains the youngest winner ever, and he claimed the famed Staghorn Trophy a record six times between then and 1951, including three times at Belvedere.

Belvedere hosted for the second time the next year (Rex Bigelow of Jackson won) and then again four years later in 1935 (when Bob Babbish of Detroit took the title). Zygmund Zawadski of Detroit won in 1940 at Belvedere, which also hosted in 1941 when Sam Kocsis, one of Chuck’s brothers, emerged as champion.

World War II caused the suspension of the championship for four years (1942 to ’45), but then it was

Clockwise, from above: In 1977, Dan Pohl defeated Mark Spiekerman of Saginaw, 4 and 2; Henry Do took home the trophy the last time Belvedere hosted in 2014; three of Chuck Kocsis’s six Michigan Amateur wins came at Belvedere; and Andrew Chapman was the stroke play medalist in 2014, when he shot a low round of 63.

back to Belvedere for the 1946 championship, which Louis Wendrow of Lansing claimed.

Kocsis won his fifth Michigan Amateur in 1948 at Belvedere and then the sixth in 1951 at Belvedere, too.

The golf course, which for years escaped change and renovation projects in large part because the membership was only in Charlevoix for two months, hosted three Michigan Amateurs in the 1930s, four of the six that were held in the 1940s, five in the 1950s, and then 26 consecutively from 1963 to 1988.

The Michigan Amateur, since 1989, has been moved around by the presenting GAM to different elite golf courses to allow golfers from various regions of the state better access. It returned to Belvedere in 2003 for the 39th time and then again in 2014.

“Belvedere is special, a classic course, one of the best in the state, and the GAM was never going to forget it was up here,” says Steve Braun, a Charlevoix resident, Michigan Golf Hall of Fame member, and former professional at Belvedere who is also a GAM president emeritus and volunteer rules official. “And, like I’ve said before, there’s just something right about the Michigan Amateur at Belvedere.”

In the 1940s, most of the top golfers came from the clubs of the Detroit District Golf Association and top clubs in the state’s bigger cities.

“They loved it,” Joy says. “I can’t tell you how many of the great players in the state have told me they came to play in the Amateur, brought their families. Belvedere became the home of the Michigan Amateur, and we still have a sign you can see when you drive in that tells you that.”

Historical Restoration

The club added yardage with new tee areas for the 2014 Michigan Amateur. Then, in the fall of 2016, the demolition of an old building in Charlevoix led to a remarkable and unexpected discovery of Watson’s original course design drawings. While aerial photos existed from the late 1930s, the club did not have documentation of the original design until the 2016 find.

Watson, who is famous for classic and major championship designs across the U.S. — including Olympia Fields in Chicago and The Olympic Club in San Francisco — started hands-on in 1923 with five teams of horses

and 150 men on a site that had long been on the outskirts of the small village.

Fast-forward 95 years, and with the original drawings in hand, the team at Belvedere decided to begin a restoration. Golf architect Bruce Hepner and now-retired superintendent Rick Grunch completed the project for the 2017 season. They expanded putting surface areas, fairways, and approach areas on many of the holes that had been lost to erosion and mowing patterns over time, and they did a strategic tree removal and brought back a few lost bunkers.

Joy says the work brought back strategies for playing the course that Watson originally intended, and the master planning for the course remains in that spirit as continued bunker work and tree removal is carefully undertaken.

“It has been a great success,” he says. “We can play from over 6,900 yards now, but the strategies, the landing areas, the hole positions — we have the course the same as the 1930s. If anything, the short game is even more important now because the greens are

bigger and there are more pin positions where the ball moves the way it was designed for strategy and drainage.”

Hartmann, as GAM tournament director, has worked the two most recent Michigan Amateurs — as well as four GAM Senior Championships, one GAM Senior Women’s Championship, and a few USGA qualifiers — at Belvedere. He says there is never a negative word from the golfers when they realize they get to play the legendary course.

“It’s always a treat and experience to go and play there, and a lot of players take trips up there just to play it when they are allowing public play,” he says. “It’s a favorite course of a lot of people, and for more than the challenge. It has great vistas — some of the best I’ve seen in Michigan.”

The 2025 Michigan Amateur

As for competing, Hartmann says while the course will play shorter than some recent venues for the Michigan Amateur, it’s never an easy golf course because of the undulations of the greens and the demand put on a golfer’s short game.

“You can bomb it off the tee if you choose in some places, but if you don’t hit the greens, and you are going to roll off some, then you have interesting up and downs that you have to execute,” he says.

Another factor is always involved when championships are played at Belvedere.

“Mother Nature is big there, especially

Muskegon in 2003. Andrew Chapman of Traverse City was the medalist in stroke play after a 63 in 2014, but that one carries an asterisk. It came after heavy rains that forced a few par 4s to be played as par 3s, and the total distance that round was shortened considerably.

“If the wind stays down and there’s no other weather, and the golfer is hitting great iron shots and saving shots with their short game, they can score,” Hartmann says. “But it will expose your short game if anything is off, and there is almost always some wind.”

“It’s a favorite course of a lot of people, and for more than the challenge. It has great vistas — some of the best I’ve seen in Michigan.”

—Ken Hartmann, GAM senior director of competitions and USGA services

in the Amateur with the big field split into the morning and afternoon draws,” Hartmann says. “If you get on the wrong side of the draw when the weather kicks up off the bay, or the wind blows and gets swirly in the trees, then watch out.”

Low scores have been turned in at Belvedere, including a 64 by Andy Ruthkoski of

Joy, who is in his 27th year serving the membership of Belvedere, echoes Hartmann’s assessment that the short game is critical to success and says the designs of the three finishing holes demand that a golfer finish strong.

“Especially in match play,” he says. “The last two times the Amateur was here, it seemed like every match came down to the last three holes. They are challenging, and yet with great shots you can get that dramatic moment. People that come to watch can really see a lot in just that three-hole stretch. That’s where more history will be made this summer.”

Pete Green is one of the Michigan Amateur’s all-time greats, having won four times in four decades.

EverGreen Victories

Legendary golfer Pete Green reflects on his Michigan Amateur wins at Belvedere

/ BY TERRY MOORE

In talks about the Michigan Amateur Championship, Pete Green, 84, invariably comes up as one of the tournament’s all-time greats. Not only did Green win four times, but he won in four different decades: He took home the trophy at Belvedere Golf Club in Charlevoix in 1969, ’79, and ’86, and he won at Michaywé Pines Golf Course in Gaylord in ’96. In the current era, when college golfers dominate the championship, Green’s record of longevity and playing excellence likely will remain unsurpassed.

For this interview, Green spoke with Terry Moore, who covered three of Green’s Michigan Amateur victories for Michigan

Golfer. Moore caught up with Green about his legendary wins at Belvedere, which is turning 100 this year and hosting its 41st Michigan Amateur (see page 40), and Michaywé Pines.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Over the years, how did you prepare for the Michigan Amateur? With work and having a family, playing a lot of golf beforehand wasn’t possible. I practiced with probably 90% of my time devoted to the short game. I was lucky to grow up at Orchard Lake Country Club, with its sloped putting

green close to the clubhouse. Early on, I learned how to deal with breaking putts. I focused on short putts, too. I would try to hole them in different ways: hitting the back of the cup, having them just topple in, going in on the right edge, then left edge. Sometimes, I practiced by placing a penny or marker a little in front of the ball on the green, keeping my eye on it as the ball rolled over it. It helped me putt through the ball.

At Belvedere, I would get up there the Friday before the tournament, meet some townies and others, and end up playing five rounds before match play

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would begin. I never would play five days in a row. And I was cocky enough to think I’d always make match play.

Did Belvedere and its greens play into your strengths as a good chipper and putter?

My short game was good, but when I first started playing Belvedere, I had to change my chipping style. I used to nip the ball nicely and have spin on it. But after losing some matches at Belvedere, with its slower greens, I saw how players chipped differently. I learned how to hit a dead ball chip with less spin so the ball would roll out more. At that time, it was a better way to chip. In college, I started to use clubs other than wedges to chip. I did a lot of bumpand-run shots with 8- and 9-irons — even 5-irons. Belvedere’s greens are much different now in terms of firmness and speed.

How did you play certain holes at Belvedere?

The long par-3 fourth hole was always a tough green to hit. Not many would hit it in regulation. I learned not to worry about it and just leave it short and right of the green. I usually chipped up and made par. The sixth hole, a dogleg right par 4, fitted my eye. My go-to tee shot there was a low cut. I’m a big advocate of teeing it low and hitting a cut off of the heel when needed. Bud Stevens [a three-time Michigan Ama-

teur champion] was great at hitting that shot at Belvedere. He’d tee it very low, cut it, and take the left side out of play.

The 16th is a good hole with how the tiny green fits into the narrow hillside. In the old days, when hitting the second shot, the ball sometimes stayed up if you missed the green short and would not roll back down the hill as it does today. But back then, by staying up, you had a lot of weird sidehill lies.

I always liked the short dogleg par-5 15th hole. It was usually a critical hole in a match. I would hit a 3-wood off of the tee and carry the bunker but leave it short enough in the fairway. The year I faced Greg Reynolds in the finals [1986], he tried to cut the dogleg, hit a tree, and ended up in a terrible lie, costing him the hole. [Green won, 3 and 2.]

Championships

Talk about your fourth Michigan Amateur win at Michaywé Pines in 1996 at age 55, becoming the oldest champion.

A month or so before that tournament, I went up to Treetops Resort in Gaylord with my daughter, Suzy, and watched her take a lesson from Henry Young, who was the director of instruction. After the lesson, Henry asked if I wanted to take a few swings for him. So I did, and because there wasn’t much time left, he said, “Until I see you again, I’d like for you to stretch your straight left arm behind your right shoulder and hold it for 15–30 seconds. Do that stretch several times a day.” I went home and did that stretch religiously, and it made a big difference in my turn, allowing me to load better on the backswing. I never went back to see Henry, but that tip made a big difference in my ball-striking at Michaywé.

What’s the shot you’ll most remember at that or any Michigan Amateur?

It has to be my second shot at Michaywé on the par-5 14th in the final match against Doug LaBelle. One-up at the time, I hit a bad drive into the woods while Doug was down the middle. I punched out, leaving me 255 yards to the flag, and then Doug laid up at least 150 yards ahead of me. At the time, I had a strong TaylorMade 3-metal. I blistered the shot, and it landed in front of the green and rolled toward the pin. It ended 1 foot behind the hole for a tap-in eagle. It gave me a 2-up advantage, which was how the match ended. Given the circumstances, that’s the best shot I’ve ever made.

What did winning the Michigan Amateur mean to you?

Growing up in the state, it meant everything to win your state championship. The Michigan Amateur was a big deal, and winning it was always one of my goals. But I was 29 before I won the first time. There were a number of near misses before that one. Today, with the growth of golf and the amount of competition, maybe the Michigan Amateur doesn’t mean as much to some. But it certainly was the tournament in my day, and I hope it still is.

Next Up at Eagle Eye

The Michigan Women’s Amateur joins a long list of championships at the destination course / BY GREG JOHNSON

Eagle Eye Golf & Banquet Center has hosted multiple state championship tournaments for amateur and professional male golfers, and this summer, it will welcome the top amateur female golfers in Michigan.

The 109th Michigan Women’s Amateur Championship presented by Carl’s Golfland will be held July 7–11 at the destination venue in Bath Township near East Lansing.

“They came to us through Terry Kildea, who works for them in marketing and promotions and is one of our rules officials, and it was an easy yes,” says Ken Hartmann, senior director of competitions and USGA

services for the Golf Association of Michigan. “Eagle Eye is a quality site like all the properties they have in that group.”

The Michigan Women’s Amateur will be the second major championship the GAM has administered on the Eagle Eye course and the third conducted with Eagle Eye Properties, the group that owns Eagle Eye, Hawk Hollow, Timber Ridge Golf Club, Woodside Golf Course, the nine-hole Falcon course, and the Little Hawk putting course.

The 2016 Michigan Amateur Championship, featuring the state’s top male golfers, was played on Eagle Eye, and Sam Weatherhead of Grand Rapids, then a Michigan

State golfer, emerged as champion.

In 2022, the men returned for another Michigan Amateur and played the Hawk Hollow course. Nick Krueger of Spring Lake won that championship.

The nearby Michigan State golf teams are regular visitors to Eagle Eye for practice and competition, and the MSU men’s team and Eagle Eye combined to host a 2023 NCAA Division I Regional Championship.

The award-winning course, designed by Pete Dye protégé Chris Lutzke (with consultation from Dye), has also hosted several GAM and USGA championship qualifying rounds since its grand opening in August 2003.

Eagle Eye Golf & Banquet Center, green 17

“The GAM seeks quality sites for their biggest championships, and we feel we provide that.”

—Terry Kildea, Eagle Eye Golf & Banquet Center

here a lot, and we have a great relationship with Stacy and the players, who are obviously some of the best women players in Michigan, and we have a great relationship as a member club of the GAM,” he says. “The GAM seeks quality sites for their biggest championships, and we feel we provide that.”

Luke Thode, the general manager of the

“It’s a championship course in all ways,” Hartmann says. “You can set it up to fit the field that is playing it. It is challenging for everybody. It’s always in great condition. They are welcoming, and the facilities around the course are second to none.”

Kildea says the idea to host the state championship for women evolved in part from Eagle Eye’s involvement with the Michigan State women’s golf team and its head coach, Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, who is a two-time Michigan Women’s Amateur champion.

“The MSU team practices and plays out

Eagle Eye Golf & Banquet Center properties, says he is confident the team at Eagle Eye will help put on a great tournament.

“We’ve hosted the men’s amateur a couple of times in the last decade, and we want the best women in the state to see the golf course in competition, too,” he says. “We have a number of ladies’ leagues and women’s events at our properties, including Eagle Eye, and we think this is a great fit.”

Slobodnik-Stoll, last summer’s GAM Women’s Senior champion, plans to compete at Eagle Eye this summer in the same

field as her daughter, Olivia, a Grand Valley State golfer. She says it is a perfect venue for a championship.

“I’m always suggesting the course to the GAM to host something, and that’s because it’s a great test of golf, the conditions are always impeccable, and it is in a great MidMichigan location, too,” she says.

Shannon Kennedy of Beverly Hills, the defending champion from the 2024 Women’s Amateur at Plum Hollow Country Club in Southfield, is a Michigan State golfer and is expected to defend.

Hartmann says Eagle Eye provides a challenge for whatever golf field is taking it on.

“There is room off the tee, but [there are] some spots where you need to think on your tee shots, and I wouldn’t call any of the holes easy,” he says. “It’s a full collection of tough, challenging holes, especially those last five or six holes, which will make match play exciting. The wind out there can be tough, too, especially at 17, and it can change things in a heartbeat.”

No. 17 is a short but beguiling par-3 hole with an island green built as a replica of the famous No. 17 hole at the Dye-designed TPC Sawgrass course in Florida.

“We’ve learned a lot about setting up 17 from having tournaments and qualifiers there, so we have a good idea how to set it up, but we also know it is going to change some matches,” Hartmann says. “The combination of wind and water there just has that intimidation factor for any golfer, and then you add the pressure of competition.”

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THE GENDER GAP CLOSING

Women continue to make up the fastest-growing demographic in golf / B Y JANINA PARROTT JACOBS

“Women golfers are often overlooked by golf courses and golf media. Here, we see them as a large area of growth and are working to attract and keep them as customers into the future.”

—Tony Mancilla, general manager at Island Resort & Casino

The game of golf is growing, and seven million female players are leading the charge up the fairways.

This is welcome news for a sport caught gasping for breath after widespread economic woes beginning in 2008. Recovery took root during the next few years, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, golf was one of few less-restricted sports people could enjoy outside. This sent golf numbers soaring again, attracting seasoned and new participants alike.

Since then, the largest gains are from formerly underserved markets; mostly women and junior girls are returning to the game, surpassing numbers from 20 years ago. According to the National Golf Foundation, approximately 26% of all on-course golfers in America are women. Their numbers are even stronger in off-course forms of the game, like Topgolf, simulators, and driving ranges, where 42% of those 18.5 million golf fans are female.

Retention Is Key

competence, and fun all play major roles in retaining women, and if they aren’t feeling it, they walk away.

What can be done to improve women’s first impressions? First, learning proper fundamentals immediately is imperative. After all, golf is a very difficult game. Instruction from friends, spouses, or videos may go only so far; learning from golf professionals is the gold standard. Per the National Golf Foundation, about 25% of female golfers have engaged in formal golf instruction, which is higher than the national golfer average of 17%.

“Female students say they are more comfortable working with women and that we are less intimidating,” says Terri Ryan, director of golf for the city of Southfield. She has coached college and high school golf teams for decades. “We understand the difference in body structure, and I found most women learn by visuals and kinesthetics. … They like to see and feel what the swing should be.”

Distance is always a hot topic, and today’s talented young amateurs and LPGA Tour players are hitting the ball at much longer yardages.

For decades, one National Golf Foundation number has remained fairly static: Women traditionally make up well over a third of all new golfers, yet the proportion of women to total golfers, nationally, has never been close to matching that number. Why the disparity?

Simply this: Often, women who are new to golf are not brought into the game in a welcoming manner. Comfort,

Still, retention of young female players is an issue.

“I have also taught many young women who excel their first few years in high school but then realize the world is bigger,” Ryan says. “They want a social life.”

On the flip side, the National Golf Foundation reports that there are roughly 1,000 more high schools that have golf teams for girls than there were only 10 years ago.

THE NUMBERS

26% OF ALL ON-COURSE GOLFERS IN AMERICA ARE WOMEN

1,000 MORE HIGH SCHOOLS HAVE GIRLS’ GOLF TEAMS THAN 10 YEARS AGO

Feeder programs, like instructional MWGAsponsored LPGA*USGA Girls Golf as well as Youth on Course, which lets kids play a round of golf for $5 or less, make golf more enjoyable and accessible for children and young adults.

Still, this may be where the more social aspects of off-course options — where participation is rising — factor in. You can be with friends, enjoy refreshments, and socialize, all while gaming and playing simulated golf events.

Organizations Step Up

Various organizations for women promoting golf as a career tool have sprung up over the last decades, opening opportunities to learn the game in a friendly atmosphere. Feeder programs, like instructional MWGAsponsored LPGA*USGA Girls Golf as well as Youth on Course, which lets kids play a round of golf for $5 or less, make golf more enjoyable and accessible for children and young adults.

35% OF EVANS SCHOLARSHIPS WERE AWARDED TO WOMEN IN 2024

$116.55 MILLION WAS IN LPGA PURSES IN 2024

The Western Golf Association continues to encourage young women to enter private club caddie ranks and vie for coveted full-ride Evans Scholarships at top universities. In 2024, 35% of scholarships awarded by WGA went to young women. The Aspire Higher program identifies highachieving students in Detroit and Pontiac and opens doors to college and the world of golf via caddying.

And because of accelerated growth and interest in women’s golf, LPGA purses have risen dramatically, from $47 million in 2012 to $116.55 million in 2024.

Michigan Leads the Way

Despite ancient theories that women don’t spend money, devoting particular attention to female golfers does pay off.

“Women golfers are often overlooked by golf courses and golf media,” says Tony Mancilla, general manager at Island Resort & Casino in Harris in the Upper Peninsula. “Here, we see them as a large area of growth and are working to attract

and keep them as customers into the future.”

In 2011, Chairman Mancilla and his Hannahville Indian Community created the Island Resort Championship in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for the Epson Tour, also known as the “Road to the LPGA.”

“A large percentage of spectators at the Epson event are women and young girls,” Mancilla says. “Since 2013, our numbers of women players have increased every year, … which coincides with our golf tournament.”

The proof lies here: Female golfers at the resort rose from 22% to 34% of overall golfers, eclipsing national averages by 12%. Most growth is in couples’ trips, women-only excursions, and waterpark and spa specials.

Last summer, the Great Lakes Sports Commission announced a partnership between Island Resort and Boyne Golf to create the Epson Tour’s newest tournament, the Great Lakes Championship, scheduled for June 13–15, 2025.

“We are thrilled the Great Lakes Sports Commission has selected The Highlands to host the Epson Tour this summer,” says Ken Griffin, Boyne’s director of golf sales and marketing. “Hosting these talented women and future LPGA stars shows our commitment to growing women’s golf and creates nationwide exposure for all the great golf in northern Michigan.”

The Great Lakes Championship marks the second event in a three-consecutive-weeks Michigan Swing bookended by Battle Creek’s FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship June 6–8 and the Island Resort Championship presented by Delta County Chamber June 16–22.

Janina Parrott Jacobs is a golf and travel writer and is involved in multiple golf-related organizations, including as a governor and the Member Relations Committee chair for the Golf Association of Michigan. The opinions expressed here are her own.

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Déjà Vu Victories

McCoy Biagioli’s double-win summer follows another / BY

GREG JOHNSON

McCoy Biagioli in 2024 had a tough act to follow, but he matched the historical feat of August Meekhof from the year before, adding his name to two of the most storied trophies in Michigan golf.

Biagioli, a 19-year-old Ferris State golfer from White Lake, became just the 11th golfer in a span of more than 100 years to claim both the Michigan Amateur Championship’s Staghorn Trophy and the GAM Championship’s K.T. Keller Trophy in the same season, just as Meekhof did in 2023.

“Winning the GAM Championship, too, that proved to me I’ve improved at handling pressure and the mental part of the game,” says Biagioli, who was named the GAM’s 2024 Men’s Player of the Year. “I made some early bogeys; then came all the weather delays. But I found my focus, stayed mentally tough, and hit some great shots on a tough course to win.”

In June, he marched through match play as the No. 31 seed and beat Jimmy Dales of Northville 3 and 1 in the championship match of the 113th Michigan Amateur, which was played on The Heather course at The Highlands in Harbor Springs. It was the first win for Biagioli in a GAM-administered tournament and the first for him since high school and junior golf.

In August, he battled through early round bogeys and five hours of weather delays at Barton Hills Country Club in Ann Arbor to pull ahead and win the 103rd GAM Championship.

“All my close friends are not surprised — they are very proud of me — but I know from around golf in Michigan, most people were surprised I did it,” Biagioli says of his historic summer. “My close friends, my teammates that play with me all the time, knew the things I could do. Those who didn’t know me so well just didn’t know what I was capable of.”

McCoy Biagioli, from left, with the Staghorn Trophy, following through on a shot, and with the K.T. Keller Trophy.

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GAM PLAYERS OF THE YEAR 2024 — GAM HONOR ROLL SPONSORED

15-AND-UNDER BOYS

JULIAN SINISHTAJ

Julian Sinishtaj of Macomb earned the 2024 GAM 15-and-under Junior Boys’ Player of the Year title after winning the Michigan Junior State Amateur’s 15-and-under division and finishing second in stroke play. The 15-year-old totaled 826.5 points. A dedicated player, he practices daily at The Orchards Golf Club. He aims to compete at higher levels and play college golf in the future.

Finalists: David Han, Midland; Aidan Oake, Howell; Landon Guenther, Grand Blanc; Parker Westcott, Manchester

SENIOR MEN

LEO DAIGLE

Leo Daigle of Wixom secured the 2024 GAM Senior Men’s Player of the Year title with a season marked by consistency and key victories. The now-61-year-old GAM member, playing through the Michigan Publinx Golf Association, accumulated 340 points by qualifying for the U.S. Senior Amateur, reaching the semifinals of the GAM Senior Match Play Championship, tying for second in the GAM Senior Championship, and winning the GAM Senior Tournament of Champions.

Finalists: Mike Ignasiak, Saline; Rick Crandall, Fenton; Greg Davies, West Bloomfield; Kevin VandenBerg, Pulaski, New York

JUNIOR BOYS

COOPER REITSMA

Cooper Reitsma, now 17, of Ada earned the 2024 GAM Junior Boys’ Player of the Year title after accumulating points in 13 tournaments, including victories at the Michigan PGA Junior Championship and two Callaway Tour events. A Cascade Hills Country Club member, he totaled 1,062.5 points and consistently performed at a high level. This marks his third consecutive GAM Player of the Year honor.

Finalists: Drew Miller, East Lansing; Connor Fox, Lake Orion; Julian Menser, South Lyon; Konner Kubica, Northville

SUPER SENIOR RANDY LEWIS

Michigan Golf Hall of Famer Randy Lewis of Alma claimed the 2024 GAM Super Senior Player of the Year title after a season of strong performances and a return to full health. The 67-year-old Pine River Country Club member earned 235 points, highlighted by victories in the Super Senior division of the GAM Senior Match Play Championship and the GAM Mid-Amateur.

Finalists: Ian Harris, Bloomfield; Greg Zeller, Jackson; Jeff Knudson, Beverly Hills; Rick Herpich, Orchard Lake

GAM Champions

GAM

15-AND-UNDER GIRLS

SAISHA PATIL

Saisha Patil, now 14, of Okemos earned the GAM 15-and-under Junior Girls’ Player of the Year title for the second consecutive year. She dominated the season, winning the Michigan Girls’ Junior State Amateur (15-and-under division), the GAM Girls’ Championship (15-and-under), the GAM 14 & Under Match Play Championship, and four Meijer Tour events. She amassed a total of 1,453 points.

Finalists: Hannah Kim, Troy; Tula Puzzuoli, Washington Township; Anika Srivastava, Okemos; Madilyn Sheerin, Grand Blanc

JUNIOR GIRLS

ALENA LI

Alena Li, now 17, of Okemos earned the 2024 GAM Junior Girls’ Player of the Year title after winning the Michigan Junior Girls’ State Amateur, the GAM Girls’ Championship, and the Michigan PGA Girls’ Junior title. She totaled 1,440 points to claim the honor for the second consecutive year. Li plans to focus on academics in college while continuing to play golf.

Finalists: Grace Slocum, Traverse City; Macie Elzinga, Byron Center; Mia Melendez, Ann Arbor; Lillian O’Grady, Grand Rapids

ELAYNA BOWSER

After returning to amateur golf in 2024, former Michigan Women’s Amateur champion Elayna Bowser of Dearborn quickly reestablished herself as a top competitor. The now-28year-old real estate agent captured the GAM Women’s Mid-Amateur title and reached the round of 32 at the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur, finishing the season with 652.5 points to claim the 2024 GAM Women’s Player of

Finalists: Bridget Boczar, Canton; Shannon Kennedy, Beverly Hills; Kimberly Dinh, Midland; Laura Bavaird, Trenton

SENIOR WOMEN LORI SCHLICHER

Lori Schlicher of Lewiston, 63, claimed the 2024 GAM Senior Women’s Player of the Year title after a dominant season, winning the Michigan Women’s Senior Amateur for the second consecutive year and capping the season with a victory at the GAM Senior Tournament of Champions. A Garland Lodge & Golf Resort member, Schlicher totaled 455 points and consistently finished near the top of the leaderboards.

Finalists: Shelly Weiss, Southfield; Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, Haslett; Julie Massa, Pentwater; Donna Benford, Linden

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GAM Men’s Tournament of Champions Oak Pointe CC

Chelsea Collura

GAM Women’s Tournament of Champions Oak Pointe CC

Leo Daigle

Lori Schlicher

Michigan Roots Meet International Acclaim

Golf course designer Mike DeVries has done it all

/ BY JOHN RETZER

In 2015, golf course architect Mike DeVries put worldwide golf on notice when Cape Wickham opened to the public. His links course design, built on King Island northwest of Tasmania, debuted at No. 24 on the Golf Digest 100 Greatest Courses list. In 2024, Golf Digest ranked Cape Wickham at No. 14.

DeVries is a Michigan native whose Mitten State portfolio includes Kingsley Club, Greywalls, Pilgrim’s Run, The Mines, and Diamond Springs. Kingsley Club was rated 26 on Golfweek’s list of best modern courses in 2024; Greywalls was ranked 89. Meanwhile, at press time, Golf Digest ranked Kingsley Club as the No. 4 golf course in Michigan, Greywalls at 10, and Pilgrim’s Run at 31.

We connected with DeVries to learn more

about his approach to course design and some of the courses he’s worked on here in Michigan, including Pilgrim’s Run GC, where the Golf Association of Michigan will host a Golf Day for the first time this year.

Crystal Downs: Learning the Game

“My grandparents and uncle played golf, and that’s why I got into the game,” DeVries says. “I was 8 years old. When you are a beginning golfer, you might only hit one or two shots a round that connect and do what you want. But it was exhilarating.”

DeVries’s grandparents were members at Crystal Downs, the 1929 Alister MacKenzie–Perry Maxwell masterpiece renowned for its natural routing and intriguing greens. He also played at neighborhood public courses where

he says he “literally got dropped off and connected with whomever was in line. If there wasn’t anyone around, I played by myself, and two hours later someone picked me up.”

Through high school and college, DeVries found work at Crystal Downs.

“I started in the back room of the pro shop, but after a couple of years I moved to the grounds crew,” he says. “I really loved the job. … Spending every day of the summer working the grounds at Crystal Downs, mowing and seeing how the holes connect, had a big influence on how I design courses.”

In 1988, after college in Illinois and a stint at a sporting goods store, DeVries found himself returning to Michigan and Crystal Downs.

As luck would have it, DeVries’s former boss at Crystal Downs was supervising construction of a new course near Traverse City. High Pointe was the first solo project of an up-and-coming architect named Tom Doak. DeVries was introduced to Doak and hired to work on his crew.

Doak would go on to create acclaimed designs such as The Loop at Forest Dunes and Pacific Dunes. In 2024, he had full or partial design credit (including restorations) on eight of the current Golf Digest top 100 worldwide courses.

Kingsley Club

Mike DeVries puts in the work at Kingsley Club, one of the many courses he’s designed.

DeVries spent the next two and a half years working for Doak in course construction, first at High Pointe and then on Legends’ Heathland in Myrtle Beach and Black Forest in Gaylord. DeVries learned to craft courses with a bulldozer and observed Doak’s organic approach to design.

After those projects, DeVries returned to school to earn a master’s degree in landscape architecture at the University of Michigan. In 1994, DeVries launched his own design firm, consulting for noted architect Tom Fazio while continuing to work with Doak.

Pilgrim’s Run: ‘An Amazing Journey’ DeVries’s first solo project came in 1997 at Pilgrim’s Run in Pierson, just north of Grand Rapids.

“Pilgrim’s Run was my first solo project, but it also really wasn’t a solo project,” DeVries says. “Superintendent Kris Shumaker had evolved the first routing, and Mr. Van Kampen, who funded the project, had six of his business executives design three holes each. … I was brought in to build green complexes and bring the entire design together.”

DeVries describes Pilgrim’s Run as “an amazing journey through dense forests and rolling farmland. It has lot of variety but good connectivity between holes.”

Kingsley Club: Reactionary Architecture

Kingsley Club, a private course near Traverse City, is a DeVries design consistently ranked near the top among Michigan courses.

Routed over sandy, glacier-sculpted terrain, Kingsley features bold tees and greens. It is an exemplar of DeVries’s concept of “reactionary architecture.”

At Crystal Downs, Devries notes, MacKenzie and Maxwell “didn’t move a lot of dirt.” The architects reacted to the land, designing the holes that it offered.

Similarly, DeVries says, “I’m trying to react to the land that I have, to find unique features that we can use and then develop traditional golf qualities from them. I’m trying to find 18 pieces of a story.”

Diamond Springs: Ravines and Eskers

Diamond Springs is one of three DeVries courses in Greater Grand Rapids.

DeVries describes the course as a “unique property” with a big ravine and a series of eskers — long ridges formed by glaciers.

“We used the eskers in a number of different ways,” he says. “There are parts where they’re a driving hazard. On other holes, the tee or the green are on the esker for some elevation.”

The ravine touches on six holes, requiring golfers to play alongside or over it.

Diamond Springs’ most memorable feature, however, is the single-height cut from tee to green. There is no “first cut of rough.”

Greywalls: Stunning Vistas

Greywalls opened in 2005 to immediate acclaim. Routed across rugged terrain with incredible views of Lake Superior, it was the second course for the Marquette Golf Club.

“I made a lot of visits, absorbing the land and its features,” DeVries says. “There are these beautiful gray granite walls and large rock outcroppings that we wanted to incorporate into the design.”

Greywalls — as with all of DeVries’s work — is designed to be walkable. DeVries says that in scouting the property, he had a “eureka moment” when he found a place to make the transition from the lowlands back to the middle plateau. The transition turned out to be the dramatic — and iconic — fifth hole, a short par 4 with a green set in a bowl of granite cliffs and boulders.

The Mines: Country in an Urban Setting

On a different scale from Greywalls is The Mines.

“The Mines, in downtown Grand Rapids, is built on the old gypsum mine,” DeVries says. “It is compact and intimate but still has an outin-the-country feel in an urban setting.”

Perhaps unusually, The Mines is a par 70. However, with five notably long par 4s and 110 feet of elevation, it will put golfers to the test.

“There are opportunities to play shots that aren’t directly at the pin,” DeVries says. “If you play away, you can find yourself closer than if you went right at the pin. Local knowledge of the greens can be helpful.”

DeVries says that in his designs — such as The Mines — he pays particular attention to the green complexes. That is “something I learned at Crystal Downs,” he says. “They have some of the best greens in the world, and I spent most of my young life working on and playing them.”

‘The Whole Point’ of It All

“Diamond Springs has just two heights of cut,” DeVries says. “There’s green height, and then there’s a three-quarter fairway height for the rest.”

Ultimately, DeVries says, “Golfers want a course that’s fun and exciting to play, that offers a challenge but is still fair.”

“Golf can be very difficult, even for good players,” he adds, “but having fun shots to make on the course and kidding around with your buddies is the whole point. We lose track of that sometimes.”

Greywalls

On Air and the Green

These five media members have their own golf stories to share

/ BY PAULA PASCHE

WMhen you work in media, your job is to share other people’s stories.

For these five metro Detroit broadcasters, the game of golf is an opportunity to share their own.

Mike Tirico

NBC’s Mike Tirico has covered professional golf for nearly 30 years. It has taken him around the country and the world.

“Being around the game when you cover it, you realize how great they are, and no matter what you try to do, what they do — it’s at a different level,” Tirico says. “I’m terrible relative to the people we watch, but my admiration for them is through the roof, and it’s grown exponentially.”

Tirico, who lives in Ann Arbor and is a

member at Barton Hills Country Club, says the rare good shot keeps bringing him back.

“As with many folks during COVID, I had a chance to play a lot, and that’s as good as my game has been in quite some time,” says Tircio, whose handicap is around 15. “When you throw three Olympic Games between COVID and now, Sunday Night Football, and the other NBC responsibilities, my time playing golf has been limited.

“By no means am I a good golfer,” he adds, “but by no means does that take away from my

enjoyment of a round of golf.”

Tirico started covering golf for ABC in 1997, coinciding with Tiger Woods’s first full year as a professional.

“By no means am I a good golfer, but by no means does that take away from my enjoyment of a round of golf.”

“I had a front-row seat for Tiger mania,” Tirico says. “I was there at Augusta in 1997 for SportsCenter when he won and covered the next event and many that he won during that dominant stretch through the late ’90s and early 2000s. I’ve proudly covered something like a hundred tournaments that Tiger has played in during his career. It’s been a great experience.”

Tirico’s wife, daughter, and son also play. A personal thrill was watching his daughter compete in a Michigan state high school golf tournament a few years ago.

—Mike Tirico, NBC broadcaster

“Our daughter had a wonderful coach who helped take her golf game to places that her dad had no chance of helping her with,” Tirico says. “It was transformational. It’s a game she has for life. She can not touch a club for months and walk up and start hitting wedges better than I hit them. It drives me nuts, and I love it.”

Family vacations often center on golf. Tirico’s favorite northern Michigan course is Belvedere in Charlevoix. He’s also an unofficial ambassador for Michigan golf.

“People nationally now talk about ‘Up North,’ and they want to know how good

the courses are. I tell them, ‘Hey, you can come to northern Michigan and you can play five or six sensational golf courses,’” says Tirico, who grew up in New York City. “People don’t realize it, and when they do, they come back.”

While his career keeps him busy, Tirico can be found at the short-game area at Barton Hills if he has a little free time.

“I’m incredibly obsessed with trying to figure out how to hit it better around the green after watching the likes of Scottie Scheffler do it,” he says. “That inspires me; it’s the one thing I still think I can do, and I can’t. I keep telling myself that this is the year my short game gets dialed in.”

Mike Tirico

BBernie Smilovitz

Bernie Smilovitz has found golf to be a source of healing in recent months.

The former WDIV sports director lost his wife, Donna, unexpectedly in October 2023. Then, less than a year later, WDIV offered buyouts, and while he hadn’t been planning on retiring, he found himself suddenly out the door.

“It was two pretty life-altering experiences, but I would also say golf kind of helped,”

says Smilovitz, who is a member at Tam-OShanter Country Club in West Bloomfield. Golf offered “a place to get away a little bit … in the throes of the whole thing.”

Now, he has the time to play two to three times a week when the weather allows.

“I just love playing golf,” he says. “I find it’s a great way to get away from our world and keep yourself occupied for four or five hours. There’s a peaceful existence.”

When he was getting started in his career, he noticed that a lot of deals were made on the golf course.

“If you wanted to get involved or pick up stories or get information, you needed to be available to play golf,” Smilovitz says.

He fondly remembers a round at Knollwood Country Club in West Bloomfield with former Lions coach Jim Caldwell. He and a buddy were making the turn when the starter asked if they could play the next nine with Caldwell.

“I just love playing golf. I find it’s a great way to get away from our world and keep yourself occupied for four or five hours. There’s a peaceful existence.”

—Bernie Smilovitz, former WDIV sports director

“We spent two or two and a half hours with him, and not one time did we talk about anything about the team,” Smilovitz says.

“All we talked about was family, friends, this, that — never brought up the team. We finished the round; Caldwell looks at us and goes, ‘I can’t thank you enough for how we never mentioned the team.’ It was kind of like his getaway also.”

When he’s not golfing, Smilovitz keeps busy with Monday appearances on The Mitch Albom Show on WJR, commercial work, and other projects.

Bernie Smilovitz

JJennifer Hammond FOX 2 Detroit sports reporter Jennifer Hammond loves to play golf whenever she can.

“It’s one of those things that satisfies all of my senses — the sound of the club hitting the ball when it’s a pure shot, the sunshine, the green grass, even the sound of sinking a putt,” she says. “Plus, it’s great camaraderie. I love playing golf with men and women. You learn a lot about somebody playing golf with them — positive and negative.”

Two rounds stand out as her favorites. She once had a chance to play with former Tigers manager Jim Leyland; Gene Lamont, past Tigers coach; and her friend Sandy Gossett at Fieldstone Golf Club in Auburn Hills.

“It’s one of those things that satisfies all of my senses — the sound of the club hitting the ball when it’s a pure shot, the sunshine, the green grass, even the sound of sinking a putt.”

“We had a blast,” Hammond says. “This was a point in time when I was starting to get frustrated with my game; I got frustrated with a couple shots. Jim Leyland said, ‘Do you practice?’ I said, ‘No.’ He said, ‘Then you don’t have the right to get mad. You can’t get mad at yourself if you don’t practice.’”

That experience has stuck with her: “It was a hoot. It was really one of the most enjoyable rounds I’ve had in a long time, and my friend Sandy and I still talk about it.”

Hammond also fondly remembers a round at Lahinch Golf Club in Ireland with her late brother, Bill, and her sister, Debbie.

“The reason that was such a good day is because I played with my brother and my sister,” says Hammond, who was in Ireland for her nephew’s wedding. “Those

—Jennifer Hammond, FOX 2 Detroit sports reporter

rounds were few and far between because we lived in separate places. Then my brother passed away in 2014.

“We played Lahinch, and we followed it up with a pink pub crawl,” she adds. “We took all the skins from him. He thought he was being generous. We kicked his ass even without strokes.”

She says Lahinch, which is by the water, is fast and unpredictable. “It’s so amazing. I kept pinching myself saying, ‘I’m playing golf in Ireland.’ Golf can take you so many amazing places with incredible people. I feel like it’s a sport I’ll play all my life. That’s a spectacular memory.”

Jennifer Hammond

BBrad Galli

As a sixth grader, Brad Galli started as a caddie at Oakland Hills Country Club, a tradition that lasted 10 summers. His love of the game, which had been sparked by his parents, continued to grow during Galli’s time caddying and playing with the other caddies on Mondays.

The WXYZ sports director, who is married and has two young children, doesn’t have much time to play golf these days, but his love and reverence for the game have not wavered.

“The shared experience of golf has been for me what’s made it so special,” he says, adding that he’s still friends with his old caddy buddies and he bonds with his family over golf as well. “It’s a solo sport, but for me it’s been a journey with everyone around me.”

His time at Oakland Hills overlapped with the club’s prominent hosting period in the 2000s. There was the U.S. Amateur Championship in 2002, the Ryder Cup in 2004, and the PGA Championship in 2008. Big-name celebrities and athletes wanted to play Oakland Hills, where the best had competed, and he would see different ones every other day.

He once caddied for the group behind former President Bill Clinton.

“The Secret Service guy I was caddying for decided he was too tired,” Galli recalls. “So he goes, ‘Do you want to play the rest of the holes?’ I said, ‘The president is right there.’ He said, ‘I’ll do my job and watch him. You can just golf and have some fun and tell your friends for the

“The shared experience of golf has been for me what’s made it so special. It’s a solo sport, but for me it’s been a journey with everyone around me.”

—Brad Galli, WXYZ sports director

rest of your life you got to play golf behind Bill Clinton with the Secret Service member’s clubs.’

“Then after a while he said, ‘If you don’t want to keep playing, we can just go up and ride along for the whole back nine with President Clinton.’ So that’s what we did. We got pictures, stories; he was a blast, a lot of fun.”

At the Ryder Cup, Galli and his buddies followed Tiger Woods the whole week. During the practice rounds, they were shouting at Woods with lines from Old School.

“He was laughing, and we kept making him laugh,” Galli says. “By the end of the week, we had tried to get his autograph the whole time. We knew when the actual competition started and the practice rounds were over, he didn’t sign autographs. He passed us by at the edge of the line, and we’re like, ‘Oh, it’s the last day.’ We made him laugh — we were so hopeful.

“I said, ‘Come on, Tiger. You’re my boy, Blue!’ He turned around and goes, ‘You throw me whatever you got.’ I sent my hat down the line; it was my sweaty, nasty caddy hat. He took it and signed it. I still have it hanging up in my basement.”

In 2003, Galli’s friend invited him to the Masters for the Monday practice day.

“The first person we saw when we walked into Augusta National was Tiger Woods. I’m not kidding — not a volunteer, not a worker — Tiger crossed our face,” Galli says. “There was no crazy hoopla. Nobody was yelling. It echoed that reverence I had for golf that was instilled in me at such a young age that we got to feel at Augusta just magnified.

“The smell was the best smell of any sporting event I’ve ever been to in my life. It was like a theme park but for golf enthusiasts. I looked at my friend, who I’ve known since we were picking our noses as little kids and we grew up in the game together. We were almost speechless. That’s what the game can do.”

Brad Galli

RRhonda Walker

“It’s a mental health escape for me. I never thought of it that way until more recently. It doesn’t matter what day I’m having — my day turns around when I know I have a tee time. I’m just so excited to play.”

Like many golfers, WDIV anchor Rhonda Walker started playing golf with her dad after he gave her clubs when she graduated from high school.

“Initially, it was just a way to spend time with my dad,” she says. “We loved it, and it was a way to get four and a half, five hours one-on-one with my father.”

It was a solid start. Her love for the game of golf grew after college.

“Once I got into television, I got a lot of invitations to play in charity golf outings,” Walker says. “I would do that a lot. That was fun, and that was the extent of how much I played golf outside of playing some rounds with my dad.”

These days, golf plays a bigger role in her life.

“I look at the forecast, and if it’s a good day, I’m booking a tee time,” she says. “It’s my fun escape, and I love it. My husband plays, too; we will travel and play and just really enjoy the sport.”

Walker has been a member at the Detroit Golf Club for about 10 years, while her husband is a member at Oakland Hills.

“We’re spoiled — we have four different courses to play. Imagine how fortunate we feel,” Walker says. “You do get some variety as opposed to being a member at one club with one course.”

Walker’s early morning hours at WDIV allow her to get in more golf during the week.

“I am a lover of summer, and golf courses are so beautiful, and it’s just an escape for me,” she says. “It’s quiet, it’s pretty, it gets you away from anything you’re going through in your life. You get to focus on just playing your game.

“It’s a mental health escape for me. I never thought of it that way until more recently. It doesn’t matter what day I’m having — my day turns around when I know I have a tee time. I’m just so excited to play.”

Walker doesn’t let bad weather get in her way if she’s determined to play. When her golf league cancels due to rain, she and her partner still play.

“There was one day in the spring — it was a cold rain, so we put on our rain gear, our layers,” she recalls. “We

—Rhonda Walker, WDIV anchor

were the only people out on the course — literally. This is at the Detroit Golf Club, where they have two courses, and we were literally the only people out there. We look forward to that one day a week to play together so much, the forecast didn’t matter. We just want to be out with our golf clubs and we want to play.”

And so they did.

When she started the Rhonda Walker Foundation, which provides career and personal development and mentoring for teen girls in Detroit, a golf outing was a natural fundraiser. It’s now held at the Detroit Golf Club.

Rhonda Walker

Jared Goff plays his shot from the 17th tee during the proam prior to the WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale.

From Ford Field TO THE GREEN

When he’s not chasing the Super Bowl, you know where to find Lions QB Jared Goff

/ BY TONY PAUL

Jared Goff plays like an MVP candidate on the football field. He’s not quite there yet on the golf course, but that doesn’t dampen the enthusiasm he has for the game.

Goff, the 30-year-old star quarterback for the Detroit Lions, uses golf as his offseason getaway from the rigors and pressures of professional football. He took up the game semiseriously after he was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams out of Cal in 2016. It started out as something to keep him busy during his downtime as well as something to do with his dad, Jerry Goff, a former Major League Baseball player. The two of them celebrated Jerry’s 55th birthday at Sage Valley Golf Club in South Carolina in 2019.

Over the years, golf has morphed into much more, including something Goff can do — and does do, a lot — with his buddies, like Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, who went with

Goff on a guys trip to famed Pine Valley Golf Club in New Jersey last spring.

By the standards of some other golf-junky pro athletes, Goff doesn’t play a whole lot — you won’t find a single score posted on his GHIN® profile from the start of the NFL season through the Super Bowl — though he plays enough in the offseason to carry an impressive 8.1 handicap out of Bel-Air Country Club in California.

He’s passionate enough about the sport that he once built a makeshift par 3 in his backyard (the Lions, conveniently, have a par 3 at their practice facility, too). He’s obsessed with the Masters; Goff and his dad have attended the tournament, but Goff is still waiting for his invite to play Augusta (in case you know a guy). He’ll rarely turn down an invite to a PGA Tour pro-am, and he’s played in the American Century Championship, the televised celebrity tournament in Nevada.

the oot ll fiel golf has been an escape for Lions quarterback re o who li es to l y with his erry former MLB player.

Michigan Links magazine caught up with Goff late in the 2024 NFL regular season for a rapid-fire Q&A on all things golf.

LET’S CALL THIS, WELL, A TWO-MINUTE DRILL.

How long have you played golf?

I really got into it once I got into the NFL, so let’s call it 10 years.

What got you into the game?

The offseason. I was looking for something to do, and my dad plays a ton. And he’s really good at golf, so it was something for him and I to share.

Who’s better?

He’s much better. [Jerry Goff carries a 4.6 handicap, out of StoneTree Golf Club in California.]

How often do you play?

In the offseason, I try to play once a week. If I can play twice a week, that’s a good week. But once a week in the offseason — on the weekend or once during the week — is great.

What’s the best course you’ve ever played?

Cypress [Point Club, in California].

How’d you shoot there?

I played OK. I think I shot low 80s.

What’s your dream course? Augusta.

Think that’ll happen? Yeah. Well, I hope so.

Who’s the best golfer on the Lions?

Michael Badgley [kicker].

OK, dream foursome?

Tiger [Woods], my dad, and Scottie Scheffler.

Who’s the biggest celebrity you’ve played with?

What do you make of the golf scene in Michigan?

Oh, it’s great. It’s the best public in the world, I think. Well, I guess I wouldn’t know, because I don’t golf public all over the world, but that’s what I’ve heard. It’s much better than California, publicly.

I played with Chris Pratt in a pro-am. [Baseball star Albert Pujols was in the group, at the 2020 Genesis Invitational at the Riviera Country Club in California in 2020; Keegan Bradley was their pro.]

What’s the best part of your game? Short game.

You throw right-handed but play golf left-handed?

I do. That’s why I suck.

Does the game frustrate you? Yes, very. All the time.

Golfer’s A Paradise

Study reveals Michigan is truly the United States’ favorite summer golf destination

/ BY GREG JOHNSON

Michigan is the United States’ favorite summer golf destination. That’s not just a marketing pitch. According to a recent National Golf Foundation study commissioned by the Michigan Golf Alliance, a collection of the state’s leading golf associations (including the Golf Association of Michigan), that’s reality. Michigan has more than 800 golf courses, resorts in the Upper and Lower peninsulas, and the most pub-

lic courses in the country, so it is easy to see why the state is a golfer’s paradise.

The NGF report, released last year, concluded that Michigan’s golf industry has an annual economic impact of $6.1 billion and also that:

• More than 1.85 million golfers travel to Michigan for golf and spend more than $1 billion annually; nonresidents play about three of every 10 rounds in the state each year.

The Highlands at Harbor Springs — Hills Course

$1B+ ANNUAL SPENDING BY NONRESIDENT GOLFERS IN MICHIGAN

• Only a handful of states have a larger proportion of annual rounds played by visitors, and they are the Sunbelt states of Arizona, Florida, and South Carolina and the worldwide tourist destination Hawaii. Those states, of course, have golf without a winter interruption, whereas Michigan’s golf season is only five to six months.

• Only Florida, California, and Texas, with golf facilities open throughout the year, have a higher volume of annual rounds played than Michigan, which had approximately 16.42 million rounds played in 2023.

1.85M+ GOLFERS WHO TRAVEL TO MICHIGAN FOR GOLF ANNUALLY

• Outside of the coastal, warm weather states of Florida and California, arguably no U.S. state has a more substantial footprint in the world of recreational golf than Michigan. The Mitten State is 10th in the U.S. in size and 11th in population but ranks third in the total number of golf courses (859) and has the most open-tothe-public golf courses of any state (604 facilities, including those — like resorts — with multiple courses).

‘America’s Summer Golf Capital’ “Michigan being America’s favorite summer golf destination has been talked about in the

3RD

MICHIGAN’S RANK IN TOTAL NUMBER OF GOLF COURSES IN THE U.S.

“We have the National Golf Foundation comparing us to other golf travel states, and we are right there at the top.”

—Ken Griffin, Boyne Resort’s director of golf sales and marketing

“For a Midwestern state that has a prime golf season of five months, the impact and the number of golfers coming here is pretty unbelievable.”

—Chris Whitten, GAM executive director

Bay Harbor Golf Club

state for a long time, but the study offers reality through numbers that back up the data we have been talking about,” says Ken Griffin, the director of golf sales and marketing at Boyne Resorts. “This is why we can call ourselves America’s Summer Golf Capital and promote golf in northern Michigan and work with Pure Michigan under that name [eight resorts, 26 courses].”

Griffin says marketing pitches have been met with some skepticism over the years.

“We get that, but now we have the National Golf Foundation comparing us to other golf travel states, and we are right there at the top,” he says.

Paul Beachnau directs the Gaylord Area Convention and Tourism Bureau and its Gaylord Golf Mecca division. He is a founder of the cooperative golf marketing group that started in 1987 and is the second-oldest cooperative golf marketing group in the country, second only to the Myrtle Beach group in South Carolina.

“It’s a testament to working together even as competitors, and over time it went from a marketing pitch to a statement of fact: We are the favorite destination for golf in the summer in America,” he says. “There has been great synergy over the years even without hard data. I feel like we really arrived following the recession in 2008. Resorts put more money into their facilities, made improvements; at least that’s the data we have in the Mecca.”

Beachnau says the popularity of Tiger Woods helped golf in the early 2000s overall but not tourism golf as much as people think. He maintains that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been more significant.

“Leading up to COVID, it was getting stronger, but since COVID, it has been amazing for tourism golf,” he says. “Demographics have changed, and maybe the biggest thing is that the perception of golf changed. It’s a game for all ages, for all

groups. Golf lost some of that snooty factor. Younger people are playing; families are coming out together, spending money on equipment and travel. Golf is cool. The data backs it up.”

Marketing Success

Griffin and Beachnau each point out that Michigan’s audience has grown from primarily the Midwest to across the country with the development of the Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City. Direct flights to 20 cities on major carriers like American Airlines, United Airlines, and Delta Air Lines have been developed in the last seven years.

“We’ve maintained the strength of tee times with Michigan golfers, but there has been a big shift in golf packages sold to outof-state golfers,” Griffin says. “Ten years ago, we were 80% Michigan golfers, 5% Ontario, 5% Ohio, 5% Indiana, 5% Illinois — like that. Now, 55% of our golf packages are sold to out-of-state golfers.”

Fazio Premier Golf Course at Treetops Resort

“Over time it went from a marketing pitch to a statement of fact: We are the favorite destination for golf in the summer in America.”

—Paul Beachnau, Gaylord Area Convention and Tourism Bureau

~30% ROUNDS PLAYED IN MICHIGAN BY NONRESIDENTS

859

TOTAL NUMBER OF GOLF COURSES IN MICHIGAN

Griffin says $300,000 in advertising is hitting 18 direct-flight markets across the country, thanks to the eight resort partners who make up the America’s Sumer Golf Capital group and Pure Michigan, which matched their funds.

Beachnau says the Cherry Capital Airport announced late in 2024 a multimilliondollar expansion of its terminal that would add four new gates that would help destination golf continue to grow.

“It allows us to market what we have here in northern Michigan out even farther,” he says, “and we are seeing golfers from the East Coast and especially southern states … because it’s 100 degrees in the summer there but beautiful in northern Michigan and perfect for golf.”

Beachnau says golf in northern Michigan, in Gaylord specifically, and across the state, has a bright future.

$6.1B ANNUAL ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MICHIGAN’S GOLF INDUSTRY

“It’s so bright, we are all wearing sunglasses, and not just because we have those long sunshine-filled summer days on the edge of the Eastern Time Zone,” he says. “We’ve created our reality, and as long as we keep working together, it should continue to grow.”

Chris Whitten, executive director of the GAM, says the impact created by tourism golf was, to him, the most surprising part of the NGF study.

“It was something talked about in the state for a long time by the various resorts and their marketing groups, many of them marketing partners of the GAM, but for me, the reality really came through in the numbers,” he says. “It was the first chance for me to see why Michigan can truly call itself America’s Summer Golf Capital.”

He says the NGF’s comparison of Michigan to states like Florida, Texas, and California brought the point home.

“For a Midwestern state that has a prime golf season of five months, the impact and the number of golfers coming here is pretty unbelievable,” he says. “We have the data now, though. Golfers from here have always known we have a special state for golf. I know the GAM members have felt that way for a long time. Others have figured it out, too.”

Saint John’s Golf Course

Sweetgrass Golf Club

Shanty Creek Resort

‘I

Need to GIVE Something Back’

Memories of her husband and a desire to share golf with others drive Christine Walker to support the GAM Foundation

/ BY HELENE ST. JAMES

Marie “Christine” Walker was 11 years old when she arrived in the United States after starting life in a war refugee camp. She knew nothing of golf — she had never even heard of the game.

It wasn’t until she started working that she heard people talk about it. Then she fell in love — first with a man named Jerry Walker, who would become her husband, and then with golf.

Her love for both is what drives her to give annually to the Golf Association of Michigan Foundation.

“The main reason I have been donating to the foundation is because of my husband,” Walker says. “Jerry was a very, very avid volunteer for GAM. He always believed it was important to have such a program, a way to give back and to help others. He passed away in 2015, and since then I have been donating to the foundation. As we approach the 10-year anniversary of his death, I thought I would be extra generous.”

golf, offering the opportunity to play for $5 or less at thousands of courses across the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Helping Youth on Course thrive has special meaning for Walker. She was born in 1945 in a refugee camp in Uganda, her parents displaced from their native Poland. She was 3 years old when the family moved to Paris, where they stayed for eight years.

“I came to this country as an immigrant when I was only 11 years old, and I didn’t even know there was such a thing as golf, and I could have never afforded to play golf at such a young age,” Walker says. “So I am just absolutely thrilled that there are organizations that the GAM Foundation supports that allow young people who otherwise could not afford to play all these nice courses to be able to do that.”

Walker’s decision to increase her donation this year also stems from a desire to share the joy of golf with others.

“After 40 years, I have finally given up the game, and I feel like I need to give something back,” she says. “And I really love that GAM supports Youth on Course.”

Youth on Course is a program that provides people 18 and younger with access to

She herself didn’t start golfing until she was in her 30s, after she had married Jerry.

“I am embarrassed to say that up until I was in my late 20s, I didn’t even know that people played such a game as golf,” she says.

“One of the men I was working with kept talking about going down south to play golf, and I just looked at him like, What?”

Things changed when she met Jerry while they were both working for the Upjohn pharmaceutical company in western Michigan. He encouraged Walker to play golf, and she recruited several of her friends to join her in lessons at a local

Bay Harbor GC/ Boyne Resorts

“I am just absolutely thrilled that there are organizations that the GAM Foundation supports that allow young people who otherwise could not afford to play all these nice courses to be able to do that.”

—Marie “Christine” Walker

Jerry Walker

municipal golf course.

Once she stepped onto the greens, she was hooked. Golf became a shared passion with Jerry.

“Almost all of our vacations were golf destinations,” Walker says. “Every winter, we would go to Hawaii in January. We went to Pebble Beach. Of course, we also took the obligatory vacation to Scotland, and we played all the courses — St. Andrews, Muirfield, Turnberry. We played all of those.

“Golf was such a big part of our lives. It taught me patience, and it has given me so many friends. I’m still in a book club with many of the ladies I used to golf with. I hear them talk about golf, and I feel jealous because I gave up playing, but I also still really feel a part of it.”

When the couple weren’t vacationing or playing golf, Jerry found joy as a volunteer for the GAM. He also served as a governor from 2011 until he passed away.

“When Jerry got involved, he jumped in with both feet and really went after it,” says Ken Hartmann, senior director of competi-

tions and USGA services. “When he volunteered, he was there from sunup to sundown. He did close to 50 days a year, and it didn’t matter where the event was — he was there. Nothing stopped him. He was unbelievable.

“It was a tremendous loss when we lost him. I don’t know if we have filled that hole. There will never be another Jerry Walker, who gave what he gave.”

It is that passion that drives Walker to give to the GAM Foundation, to help others feel the love that she and Jerry shared.

“He was volunteering back before they had a foundation, and I remember him saying, ‘They need to do something,’” Walker says. “And when they did, that’s when I started sending them money in his memory.”

‘These Kids Are the Future’

Youth on Course enjoys record-setting season in 2024

/ BY KELLY HILL

Izaac Ringgold’s career path may have been a fortuitous result of 2020 COVID-19 social-distancing regulations. Then a freshman at Midland High School and a soccer player since the age of 5, Ringgold was looking for an alternative athletic outlet when his father, Steven, suggested he try golf.

Ringgold teed up for the first time in 2020 and a year later became a regular member of Youth on Course, the multinational initiative that allows kids ages 6 through 18 to play a round for just $5. Now a senior at Midland and a member of the Chemics golf team, Ringgold was recently accepted to Ferris

State’s PGA Golf Management program.

“I love the game. Golf is my main sport now,” says Ringgold, a 3.7-handicap golfer who works part time at Midland Country Club. “I want to keep doing what I like to do, so I am going to pursue it at Ferris.”

Playing primarily at Currie Golf Courses in Midland, Ringgold contributed more than 50 rounds to a record number of more than 49,000 Youth on Course rounds played on 100 participating courses in Michigan in 2024. That is an increase of roughly 17,000 rounds over 2023’s total. Currie led the

state’s courses with 3,325 Youth on Course rounds played in 2024. Youth on Course membership in Michigan also grew, to 11,520 players in 2024, an increase of more than 2,600 over the previous year’s count.

“Youth on Course is amazing,” Ringgold says. “I tried to get out and play every day, if not practice every day. I saved thousands of dollars the last three years. You can’t beat it. I go out with a bunch of my friends or I play by myself. A bunch of my friends and kids who are younger play a lot. Currie has done a great job of getting the word out.”

To make the $5 rounds for Youth on

“Youth on Course is going to keep growing. … At the GAM, we don’t want the cost of golf to be a barrier for anybody, and we want to promote courses that are junior-golf-friendly. Ultimately, we are hoping to grow the number of lifelong golfers in Michigan.”

—Chris Whitten, GAM executive director

THE NUMBERS

11,520 YOUTH ON COURSE MEMBERS IN MICHIGAN IN 2024

2,600+ MORE MEMBERS IN MICHIGAN IN 2024 THAN IN 2023

49,000+ YOUTH ON COURSE ROUNDS PLAYED IN MICHIGAN IN 2024

17,000 MORE ROUNDS PLAYED IN MICHIGAN IN 2024 THAN IN 2023

Course members possible, the Golf Association of Michigan Foundation subsidizes participating courses. Last year, the foundation paid participating courses almost $250,000 all told, an increase of roughly $80,000 over the 2023 total, and surpassed $1 million in subsidies.

“Youth on Course participation continues to expand because the $5 rounds on participating courses are truly affordable for youth and family budgets,” says Cathy Kalahar, GAM Foundation president. “Players and parents are telling their friends and other families about the opportunity.”

“Youth on Course is amazing. … I saved thousands of dollars the last three years. You can’t beat it.”

—Izaac Ringgold, Youth

Course golfer

Paul Milholland has been in the golf business for 45 years, the last 16 at Currie, where he is the general manager and director of golf. The Midland courses (an 18-hole, a nine-hole, and a par 3) hosted six times the average number of Youth on Course rounds played in 2024 at the other participating courses throughout Michigan. “We host the Eastern Michigan First Tee program, and we draw a lot of kids [to Youth on Course] who come to their programs,” Milholland says. “A lot of kids play here.”

The Currie golf facility averages 400 rounds per day, many played by juniors. “Youth on Course players call us and we get them out there,” Milholland says. “We don’t discriminate as far as juniors and tee times. We try to accommodate as many juniors as we can.”

Milholland also notes that the pace of play is not affected by the younger players. “If we have 12- or 13-year-olds playing in a foursome, rarely do we have a problem with them holding up other players.”

“We do everything we can to get kids out here to play,” he adds. “Some of the high school players will call between periods and book tee times for 3 o’clock. It’s crazy how many times they play the course. We’re doing everything we can to get parents to get their kids out here to play golf, and Youth on Course is a huge barometer of that. It’s huge.”

Exceptional weather conditions certainly contributed to the popularity of Youth on Course in 2024. “We had an incredible start in the spring, summer was amazing, and the fall was great,” notes Laura Bavaird, director of the GAM Foundation.

“I have to give a lot of credit to the golf courses,” she says of the record numbers. “Youth on Course is not necessarily a moneymaker for these courses. They are giving away tee times for $5. And yes, the GAM Foundation will subsidize them, but not enough to get them the worth of a regular tee time.”

“They realize that these kids are the future,” she adds, “and if they don’t cultivate them and give them a safe spot where they want to be, they wouldn’t come out so often.”

Record numbers may have been posted last year, but GAM Executive Director Chris Whitten expects those to be eclipsed soon. “Youth on Course is going to keep growing,” he says. “The more courses we add, the better it is going to get for more people. In order to become lifelong golfers, you need a place to go and play with friends and family. At the GAM, we don’t want the cost of golf to be a barrier for anybody, and we want to promote courses that are junior-golf-friendly.

“Ultimately, we are hoping to grow the number of lifelong golfers in Michigan.”

A Trio of New Courses

Arcadia Bluffs, Island Resort, and Forest Dunes are building new tracks to enhance golfers’ experience

/ BY TOM RADEMACHER

Atrio of dynamic Michigan golf courses — one in the Upper Peninsula and the other two in northern Lower Michigan — are investing millions to add additional holes for patrons seeking more options in their quest for high-quality golf experiences.

A new nine-hole track dubbed the Cedar Course is being developed at the Island Resort & Casino in the small U.P. town of Harris to complement the two 18-hole championship courses already in place there.

Meanwhile, construction is also underway at Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club’s The Dozen, a 12-hole offering just a short drive from Arcadia’s existing Bluffs Course and South Course.

And some 110 miles east of Arcadia, Forest Dunes Golf Club will soon break ground on SkyFall, bringing the number of tracks there to four.

The three new courses will add unique draws to their respective clubs.

“We did some 45,000 packages this year between our two courses in what essentially is a five-month season,” says Island Resort General Manager Tony Mancilla. “What we discovered is that a lot of people wanted to stay another day but couldn’t get early tee times for another 18 on our courses that are filled until 4 or 5 in the afternoon. So

Construction of SkyFall is set for the wooded area north of Forest Dunes.

we thought to ourselves, ‘If we could add a nine-hole course, we could accommodate 15,000 more rounds from people enjoying the chance to tee off in the morning on the shorter course.’”

The Dozen

At Arcadia, the planned Dozen features two six-hole loops, The North and The South, each tempting with three par-3 and three par-4 holes. Arcadia’s website notes that the

landing areas, green complexes, and bunker placements “make The Dozen a challenge even for the best players.” The course is set to open in July 2025.

The Dozen also will boast four guest cottages, each a little more than 2,000 square feet with four bedrooms, four baths, and a great room. The new course — situated on 160 acres — will incorporate a short-iron practice facility and a clubhouse with a small golf shop and casual dining both inside and out.

“We are also going to have a variety of differentlength holes, short par 4s inspired by holes like No. 10 at Riviera, maybe a short par 3, and even church pew bunkers like those at Oakmont.”

—Tony Mancilla, Island Resort General Manager

15,000 Estimated number of additional rounds that will be accommodated by the new Cedar Course

The Dozen can be walked or played with a cart, and a complimentary shuttle service will be available to transport golfers between the new course and the other two larger courses less than 2 miles away.

The Cedar Course

The Cedar Course at the Island Resort is part of a $19 million capital investment that includes a new golf shop at the resort’s Sweetgrass course and a 16,900-square-foot expansion of the convention center. Cedar will likely open sometime in 2026.

“We are taking some great concepts from the golden age of course architecture in the early 1900s and incorporating them into

the Cedar Course,” says the architect, Paul Albanese, quoted on Island Resort’s website. One such source of inspiration, he adds, is the famous No. 6 Juniper hole at Augusta National.

“We are also going to have a variety of different-length holes, short par 4s inspired by holes like No. 10 at Riviera, maybe a short par 3, and even church pew bunkers like those at Oakmont,” Mancilla says, per that same webpage.

As for the green complexes, the Island is borrowing a page from C.B. Macdonald’s National Golf Links of America as well as overseas links such as Prestwick.

“Many Midwesterners have not experi-

Acres dedicated to The Dozen at Arcadia Bluffs, which will feature two six-hole loops

“Many Midwesterners have not experienced this kind of architecture, so we wanted to give them a flavor of what it would be like to play overseas or from that era.”

—Tony Mancilla, Island Resort General Manager

enced this kind of architecture, so we wanted to give them a flavor of what it would be like to play overseas or from that era,” Mancilla says, per Island Resort’s website.

The new nine is being developed next to Sage Run’s front nine, but Mancilla stresses that the Cedar Course will not be part of the other. “We are not adding to Sage Run,” he says, per Island Resort’s website. “[We are] making these nine holes their own course.”

SkyFall

At Forest Dunes, owner Rich Mack and business partner Tom Sunnarborg are relying on designers Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner to lure more golfers with SkyFall, which will feature elevation changes up to 70 feet.

Construction on SkyFall is set to begin in

late 2025 or early 2026 and will take advantage of topography combining hardwoods and sand dunes that are part and parcel of the sprawling Huron National Forest. The original track, Forest Dunes, which was designed by Tom Weiskopf, opened for play in 2002 and has perennially been named one of the top 100 golf courses nationwide. The property has since expanded to include two other options: The Loop, created by Tom Doak, and The Bootlegger, shaped by Keith Rhebb and Riley Johns.

In a press release shared earlier this year, Forest Dunes owners promised that SkyFall would prove to be an “unforgettable” golf experience for those who make the trek. They also noted that access to SkyFall would be limited to private members and to guests

staying at properties that make up the Forest Dunes complex.

Magnificent Topography

Arcadia Bluffs, Forest Dunes, and Island Resort are relying heavily on magnificent topography to lure golfers to their new sites as well.

“The land we have for Cedar is perfect for the concept,” Mancilla says, per Island Resort’s website. “The course will wind through a valley with gently rolling hills and some elevation. It will be less severe land than Sage Run but have more movement than Sweetgrass — somewhere right in between.”

Cedar “is our third go at it,” says Mancilla, noting that the Sweetgrass track debuted in 2008 and Sage Run a decade later, in 2018.

Arcadia Bluffs, South Course

Partners in Golf and Life

GAM raters Connie and Mike Brady have been together and golfing for more than 50 years

/ BY TOM LANG

When Connie and Mike Brady met in college at Eastern Michigan, their first discussion was about the game of golf.

“He decided to date me because I knew the difference between a hook and a slice,” Connie says with a chuckle.

“I kind of tested her a little,” says Mike, a retired bank lending officer. “She proved to me that she knew what she was talking about.

“And 56 years later, we are still playing golf.”

Today, the Bradys are regional captains (leading qualified teams of the Golf Association of Michigan’s course raters in West Michigan) in establishing Course and Slope Ratings™ from course to course. Their rating work is the culmination of a lifetime of golf.

Connie, a former accountant, started golfing in seventh grade; she would play nine holes each Sunday with her mom and dad at Water’s Edge Golf Course on Grosse Ile. She says she played golf occasionally after that and got back into it more when she and Mike joined Sunnybrook Country Club in Grandville, Michigan. Connie enrolled in a league to play while her kids were in school.

Mike started playing golf at 14 when his

dad took him out the summer of 1961. The family lived along the perimeter of Idyl Wyld Golf Course in Livonia, and although he was not an avid golfer, Mike’s dad thought it was a game his kids should experience, Mike says. That same summer, Mike began caddying at Western Golf & Country Club in Redford.

“It was a fun challenge, and I never quit after that,” Mike says about the game.

Connie started rating courses for the GAM first. She was recruited by a co-worker who expressed a need for ratings from a woman’s perspective.

“It’s been a rewarding experience in many, many ways. We’ve met so many fascinating people in the process. … The social aspect of it is important, like the game is in general.”

—Mike Brady, course rater

COURTESY PHOTOS

Connie and Mike Brady

Course Rating™ 101

Course Rating™ is critical behindthe-scenes work for competitive golf. Mike Brady, a seasoned rater for the Golf Association of Michigan, puts it best: “Rating is the foundation for the handicap system.” A golfer’s Handicap Index® is calculated from differential values, which come from the relationship of the golfer’s posted scores to the Ratings issued by the GAM in Michigan and other authorized associations around the world. The ratings issued are what allow the World Handicap System™ to be portable.

“I love the camaraderie and the challenge of rating ... and to feel like you’re part of a team.”

—Connie Brady, course rater

“I thought it was pretty neat to travel around to some of the different golf courses that I had not played or visited, and that’s how I got started with rating,” Connie says. “And Mike got very jealous of me being able to go to all these golf courses and play them. So, as he got closer to retirement, he decided to join us.”

In 2024, Connie celebrated 20 years of rating.

“I love the camaraderie and the challenge of rating,” she says, “the input each person can give to the rating experience and to feel like you’re part of a group, part of a team.”

The couple’s dedication to the GAM has not gone unnoticed. Connie was named Rookie of the Year in 2005, and Mike won the same title in 2008. Connie eventually became a trainer for others and was named 2011 Trainer of the Year. In 2018, the Bradys together were named Raters of the Year.

“It’s been a rewarding experience in many,

many ways,” Mike says. “We’ve met so many fascinating people in the process. … It’s stimulating from a physical and mental standpoint. The social aspect of it is important, like the game is in general.”

Mike likens the course rating process to his former work as a lending officer.

“If you were meeting with a prospective borrower, you had to visit their business, make observations about how it operated, gather financial statements, analyze them, and draw a conclusion as to how that business and the loan policy meshed, then write up a proposal to the bank,” he explains. “And that’s kind of what we do with course ratings: We visit the facility, we make our observations, we gather all the data and submit it to the GAM staff and USGA — which is kind of like submitting my proposals to the loan committee.

“The skill set was transferable for me, but it’s also keeping my brain working.”

Course raters gather data through fieldwork on-site, rating each tee for both men and women through the perspective of two benchmark golfers: the scratch and bogey players. The effective playing length of the course and 10 obstacle factors, such as bunkers, lateral obstacles, and trees, is evaluated through objective measures for each player. These values are then computed into a Course Rating™, or the expected score of a scratch player, and the Bogey Rating™, or the expected score of a bogey player. The Course and Bogey Ratings™ are then related in establishing the Slope Rating™, which is a measure of the comparative difficulty of a course for scratch players and golfers who are not scratch players.

In a net competition, Ratings are also used to determine a golfer’s Course Handicap™, based on any rated set of tees that the golfer or committee elects to play.

To join an upcoming cohort of new course rating volunteers with the GAM, please visit GAM.org to complete the interest form under the Handicapping tab.

Tom Lang

Mike and Connie Brady on the course rating Country Club of Jackson this past October.

97,000 and Counting

Joining the GAM has been a way for James Schmidt (above, far left) to connect with other golfers. Schmidt’s mother, Alfreda Schmidt (inset), came out last year to watch him play before she passed away at the age of 97.

“Knowing all the avid golfers in the state, I think there’s even more room for growth, and we’re really excited to see where we can take this.”

—Chris Whitten, GAM executive director

James Schmidt’s golfing story might sound familiar to many members of the Golf Association of Michigan. He learned to golf when he was about 10 years old, playing with his dad’s old clubs and tooling around his local park with neighborhood friends. The game has remained a part of his life in the six decades since.

The GAM community is growing for a variety of reasons / BY

RYAN CZACHORSKI

Now that Schmidt is retired, he has more time on his hands and has turned to the familiar golf courses around Greater Lansing and new ones beyond.

“I wanted to increase the competition that I was having outside of my local area as far as tournaments — just see how I could measure up with other people around, make some new friendships, and see some new golf courses,” he says.

To accomplish that, Schmidt joined the GAM. He was drawn to the GAM Golf Days, which are fun, social one-day shotgun tournaments at exclusive courses across the state of Michigan. Many are at private courses, but the point is to provide light competition at a reasonable price. With Golf Days, Schmidt has had the perfect outlet to pump up the competition and play some new courses, traveling to places like Clarkston, Taylor, and Flint in 2024.

“I was a little intimidated by it. I should have performed better, but I was glad to be there and glad to participate,” Schmidt says. “I’m going to try and get an organized schedule for myself for the year.”

Expanding Enrollment

Despite golfing for many years, Schmidt had never previously maintained a GAM membership. But the numbers across the state are going up as golfers like Schmidt join the organization. Since 2021, membership in the GAM has gone up steadily, increasing by more than 8% every year. In 2020, there were 66,797 members in the GAM between adult members, Youth on Course members, and GAM junior members. That number increased to 97,209 in 2024.

Adult membership in particular has grown dramatically. From 2014 to 2020, membership was steady but not seeing much year-over-year growth, going from 54,565 adults in 2014 to 58,001 adults in 2020. Then the numbers started going up. The total number of adult GAM members has increased by at least 5,000 people every year since.

According to the National Golf Foundation, golf has become more popular over the last few years in general. As a safe and relaxing outdoor activity during the pandemic, golf has continued to capitalize on the positive momentum, and rounds were

Kelly Maher (above, center) enjoys a round with her daughters, Kit Maher and Laine Karowski. Maher also enjoys golfing with her husband, John (left).

up by almost 3% nationwide in 2024. GAM Executive Director Chris Whitten says that new golfers in the state of Michigan have plenty to sink their teeth into.

“Michigan has the fourth most golf courses of any state in the country, so it’s a great place to live if you are a golfer,” Whitten says. “We have golf course inventory for you to play and get involved in the game.”

Member Benefits

GAM members can receive club-specific discounts at more than 100 participating courses across the state of Michigan through the Swing and Save program. They can also play in the Golf Days events like Schmidt did last season. And the biggest benefit Whitten has seen — which Schmidt took advantage of — has been access to the Golf Handicap & Information Network®, or GHIN®, app. It allows golfers to post and track their scores from all their rounds and includes GPS maps of the courses.

But the biggest upside is that the app will calculate a golfer’s handicap, which can be a big deal for the golfers playing competitively like Schmidt or for a group of friends playing a Saturday morning foursome.

“I wanted to increase the competition that I was having outside of my local area as far as tournaments — just see how I could measure up with other people around, make some new friendships, and see some new golf courses.”

should get applied on for a match play match.

“[Let’s say] I’m a zero handicap, I shoot even par, [and] you’re a 10 handicap,” Whitten says. “Well, the app will take care of how many strokes we should have between each other, which holes those strokes should get applied on for a match play match.

“One person in a group of friendly golfers gets the app and tells his friends about this: ‘Guys, we should all get this; we could even do live scoring in the app, and the games would be so much more fair and more fun.’ I think there’s a huge amount of that going on.”

the be

The handicap is automatically tracked and can be applied to almost all courses in the state, as well as many courses across the country.

Course Connections

Not all the benefits are competitive, though. The ability to see new affiliated courses plays a role in the Golf Days program’s success, and it’s also a big draw for golfers who want to travel across the state.

Such is the case for Kelly Maher, who has been golfing since she was a kid. Her mother taught her how to play, and now golf is a foundational part of Maher’s relationship with her own children.

“It’s so much fun for me to golf with my daughters and my son,” Maher says. “It was easy to talk to them because you’re stuck in the cart with them. You’re there for a certain amount of time; it’s not like a quick dinner. You can really learn a lot about somebody when you’re golfing with them.”

Maher joined the GAM through her membership at the Detroit Athletic Club. There are more than 450 GAM member courses throughout the state, and with programs such as Swing and Save and Golf Days that help golfers discover courses, there’s plenty of the state to explore, solo or with family.

—Golfer James Schmidt on why he

joined the GAM

“We like to go Up North and find some little undiscovered golf courses we’ve never been to,” Maher says. “They’re just so picturesque and beautiful.”

Youth on Course

Connecting with young golfers has been a big growth area for the GAM as well. In 2019, there were 5,397 members in the GAM Junior program and Youth on Course. Fastforward five years, and that number has risen to 12,843 members in those programs.

Brett Robak, the director of golf at Bay City Country Club, which joined the GAM in spring 2024, has been pleased with his club’s implementation of Youth on Course. An annual Youth on Course membership allows golfers ages 6 through 18 to play for $5 or less.

“It helped grow the course tremendously,” Robak says. “We did almost 400 rounds of Youth on Course in three months.”

Youth on Course also enabled Robak to make inroads into the community and

encouraged families to play together, he says.

“For a kid to go pay $60 to go play, it’s just not going to happen,” Robak says. “It worked out well on the other end, where parents would come in with them.”

‘Room for Growth’

The GAM is constantly adding new benefits to its membership, looking at what’s offered through similar institutions in other states and trying to see what works best for Michigan.

It’s been an exciting few years for the GAM and golfers across the state joining up, and Whitten thinks there’s plenty more that can be done to make GAM membership appealing to golfers and courses alike.

“As we’ve seen this year-over-year growth the last four or five years, we’re creeping up into almost the top 10 … in terms of membership size,” Whitten says. “Knowing all the avid golfers in the state, I think there’s even more room for growth, and we’re really excited to see where we can take this.”

Bay City Country Club

A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort: A Northern Michigan Gem

Nestled in the picturesque landscape of northern Michigan,

A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort offers a premier golfing experience coupled with stunning natural beauty. This resort has solidified its reputation as a must-visit destination for golf enthusiasts and those seeking a relaxing getaway.

A-Ga-Ming boasts a collection of exceptional golf courses, each designed to challenge and delight players of all skill levels. The resort is well known for courses that offer breathtaking views of Torch Lake, one of Michigan’s most beautiful bodies of water. The combination of meticulously maintained greens and the stunning natural backdrop creates an unforgettable golfing experience.

Here are some key aspects that make A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort stand out:

Diverse Golfing Options

The resort features multiple courses, allowing golfers to enjoy a variety of playing experiences. This diversity ensures that every golfer, from novice to expert, can find a course that suits their preferences. The Torch in

particular is well known for its elevation changes and amazing views.

Sundance, which was the golf course of the year in Michigan in 2023 and in the top four nationally, has become one of the best courses to play in northern Michigan. The links style and beauty of northern Michigan make this a must play.

Antrim Dells, which overlooks Lake Michigan, is a parkland-style course with great greens and a friendly atmosphere.

Charlevoix Country Club, known for its immaculate conditions and great location, is just 2 miles north of downtown Charlevoix.

Scenic Beauty

A-Ga-Ming’s location in northern Michigan provides breathtaking views of rolling hills, lush forests, and the sparkling waters of Torch Lake. The natural beauty of the area enhances the golfing experience, creating a sense of tranquility and connection with nature.

Accommodations and Amenities

The resort offers a range of accommodation options, including comfortable rooms, condominiums,

and cabins. This allows visitors to tailor their stay to their needs and preferences. On-site dining options provide convenient and delicious meals, ensuring that guests can relax and enjoy their time at the resort.

Location

A-Ga-Ming’s proximity to Traverse City adds to its appeal, giving visitors access to a vibrant city with a wide range of dining, shopping, and entertainment options.

In essence, A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort provides a complete vacation experience, combining world-class golfing with the natural beauty and amenities of northern Michigan. Whether you’re a serious golfer or simply seeking a relaxing getaway, A-Ga-Ming offers something for everyone.

A Golf Adventure to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Sweetgrass, Sage Run, Greywalls, and Timber Stone shine together as a perfect foursome

The state of Michigan, with its many award-winning resort destinations and golf courses, has often been referred to as America’s Summer Golf Capital. What began in the northern lower part of Michigan decades ago has now expanded to the western part of the Upper Peninsula.

Greywalls

This golf adventure takes you up I-75 and over the scenic Mackinac Bridge to this sliver of land that runs above the Mitten along Lake Superior. Then, a visually breathtaking drive across U.S. 2 will bring you west of Escanaba, located on the far western edge of the U.P., to Island Resort & Casino in Harris, Michigan.

As one of the Midwest’s largest golf, casino, and entertainment resort destinations, Island Resort is the anchor to this emerging golf destination. Adding in Greywalls in Marquette and Timber Stone in nearby Iron Mountain, the “Perfect 4-Some” package has grown to be one of the country’s best-value golf buddy trips. Since its first golf course, Sweetgrass, opened in 2008, Island Resort & Casino has continued to evolve into one of the top golf resorts in the Midwest. Designed by golf course architect Paul Albanese and

ranked among Michigan’s top 20 public courses, Sweetgrass is a prairie links-style course that meanders to a wide-open vista where many greens and flags can be seen in the distance. The resort’s next course, Sage Run, also designed by Albanese, was inspired by the “rough and rugged” appeal of Northern Ireland’s Royal County Down. The course was named to Golf Digest ’s prestigious list of the best new courses of 2019.

The resort has begun construction on a new nine-hole course adjacent to Sage Run, which will open in 2026. The Cedar Course (Kishki), also designed by Albanese, will be inspired by the golden-age architecture of C.B. Macdonald. In addition, the resort will add a new golf shop and expand its convention center, featuring 16,900 square feet of new space accommodating up to 1,200 guests.

Sweetgrass

Golf architecture geeks will love the variety of golf designs experienced along the “Perfect 4-Some,” from the popular template greens found at Sweetgrass to the rugged modern neoclassical designs

of Sage Run and Greywalls at Marquette Golf Club, a unique golf experience combining views of Lake Superior with several natural rock outcroppings.

Located in nearby Iron Mountain, home to legendary Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo and former NFL coach Steve Mariucci, is Timber Stone. The course, designed by Jerry Matthews and Paul Albanese, meanders up and down a mountainside showcasing scenic vistas, wetlands, and tall pines.

Island Resort & Casino also features 450-plus rooms, including golfer suites, a top-floor restaurant, and a luxurious spa. Fully customizable packages offer three-, four-, and five-night lodging options with four rounds of golf. Golfers can also fly into nearby Escanaba or Marquette from Detroit. To book your Perfect 4-Some, visit islandresortgolf.com or call (877) 475-4733.

Sage Run

Timber Stone

2025 Course Directory

On the following pages, the Golf Association of Michigan presents our members with a comprehensive listing of Michigan golf courses that range from some of the state’s best-known to its many hidden gems. Keep this 2025 Michigan Links Course Directory and refer to it when venturing out to play. Check it out:

• Basic information on every course in Michigan.*

• Expanded listings for GAM member clubs.

*Information is provided by club and/or course representatives. The GAM has made every reasonable effort to ensure accuracy. Please call ahead to obtain the latest details on fees, etc.

Indicates course participation in Youth on Course. See page 74 to find out more. and

AA-GA-MING GOLF RESORT

627 A-Ga-Ming Dr. Kewadin, MI 49648

Web: a-ga-ming.com

Facebook: A-Ga-Ming Golf

Resort

Type: Resort Region: Northwest

Torch Course

Architects: Chick Harbert/Bill Siebenthaler

Holes: 18

Phone: (231) 264-5081

Sundance Course

Architect: Jerry Matthews

Holes: 18

Phone: (231) 264-5081

Antrim Dells Course

Architect: Jerry Matthews

Holes: 18

Phone: (231) 599-2679

Charlevoix Country Club

Architect: Jerry Matthews

Holes: 18

Phone: (231) 547-9796

ALPENA GC

1135 Golf Course Rd.

Alpena, MI 49707

Pro Shop: (989) 354-5052

Web: alpenagolfclub.com

Facebook: Alpena Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Northeast

Founded: 1928

Architect: Warner Bowen

Holes: 18

Walking Permitted

ALPINE GC

6320 Alpine Ave. NW

Comstock Park, MI 49321

Club: (616) 784-1064

Type: Public

Web: alpinegolfmichigan.com

Facebook: Alpine Golf Michigan

Instagram: @alpinegolf

Region: West Central

Architect: Mark Devries

Founded: 1967

Holes: 18

AMERICAN DUNES GC

17000 Lincoln St.

Grand Haven, MI 49417

Pro Shop: (616) 842-4040

Web: americandunesgolfclub.com

Facebook: American Dunes Golf Club

Region: West Central Holes: 18

Architect: Jack Nicklaus

ANGELS CROSSING GC

3600 East W Ave.

Vicksburg, MI 49097

Pro Shop: (269) 649-2700

Web: golfangelscrossing.com

Facebook: Angels Crossing

Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southwest

Architect: Bruce Matthews

Holes: 18

ANN ARBOR GOLF & OUTING

400 E. Stadium Blvd.

Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Pro Shop: (734) 663-4044

Web: aagoc.org

Facebook: Ann Arbor Golf & Outing Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast Holes: 9

Walking Permitted

ANTIOCH HILLS GC

Mesick (231) 885-1220

APPLE MOUNTAIN GC

4519 N. River Rd.

Freeland, MI 48623

Pro Shop: (989) 781-6789

Web: applemountain.com

Facebook: Apple Mountain

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Architect: John Sanford

Founded: 1998

Holes: 18

ARBOR HILLS GC

1426 Arbor Hills Rd.

Jackson, MI 49201

Club: (517) 750-1400

Web: arborhillsgolfclub.com

Facebook: Arbor Hills Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: Arthur Ham

Holes: 18

Walking Permitted

ARCADIA BLUFFS GC 14710 Northwood Hwy. Arcadia, MI 49613

Club: (800) 494-8666

Pro Shop: (231) 889-3001

Web: arcadiabluffs.com

Facebook: Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Northwest

The Bluffs

Architect: Warren Henderson

Founded: 1999

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified Caddies Available

The South Course

Architect: Fry/Straka Global Golf

Founded: 2018

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified Caddies Available

ARCADIA HILLS GC

Attica (810) 724-6967

ARROWHEAD GOLF & GRILL

1201 Gun Club Rd. Caro, MI 48723

Pro Shop: (989) 673-2017

Web: arrowheadgolfandgrill. com

Facebook: Arrowhead Golf & Grill

Type: Public Region: East Central Holes: 18

ARROWHEAD GC

Lowell (616) 438-0502

ARTHUR HILLS

THOROUGHBRED GC

Rothbury (231) 894-3939

ATLAS VALLEY GC

8313 Perry Rd.

Grand Blanc, MI 48439

Pro Shop: (810) 636-9501

Type: Semi-Private

Web: atlasvalleygolf.com

Facebook: Atlas Valley Golf Club

Region: East Central

Founded: 1912 Holes: 18

BBAHLE FARMS GC

9505 E. Otto Rd.

Suttons Bay, MI 49682

Pro Shop: (231) 271-2020 ext. 1

Web: traversecitygolf.com

Facebook: Bahle Farms

Type: Public

Region: Northwest

Architect: Gary Pulsipher

Holes: 18

BARTON HILLS CC

730 Country Club Rd.

Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Club: (734) 663-8511

Pro Shop: (734) 662-4955

Fax: (734) 663-0611

Web: bartonhillscc.com

Facebook: The Barton Hills Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast Founded: 1919

Architect: Donald Ross Holes: 18

Caddies Available

BATTLE CREEK CC

318 Country Club Dr.

Battle Creek, MI 49015

Club: (269) 962-8734

Pro Shop: (269) 962-6121

Web: battlecreekcc.com

Type: Private Region: Southwest

Architect: Willie Park Jr. 1919 Holes: 18

BAY CITY CC

7255 3 Mile Rd. Bay City, MI 48706

Club: (989) 684-2611

Web: baycitycountryclub.com

Facebook: Bay City Country Club

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Architect: Art Johnson & Larry Packard

Founded: 1965 Holes: 18

BAY COUNTY GC

584 W. Hampton Rd. Essexville, MI 48732

Pro Shop: (989) 892-2161

Web: baycountymi.gov/golfcourse

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Founded: 1966

Holes: 18

BAY HARBOR GC/ BOYNE RESORTS

3600 Village Harbor Dr. Bay Harbor, MI 49770

Club: (231) 439-4028

Web: bayharborgolf.com

Facebook: BOYNE Golf

Instagram: @Boyne.golf

Type: Resort

Region: Northwest

Architect: Arthur Hills/ Stephen Kircher

Holes: 27

BAY MEADOWS FAMILY GC

5550 Bay Meadows Dr. Traverse City, MI 49684

Pro Shop: (231) 946-7927

Web: baymeadowsgfc.com

Type: Public

Region: Northwest Founded: 1994 Holes: 9

BAY POINTE GC

4001 Haggerty West Bloomfield, MI 48323

Club: (248) 360-0600

Pro Shop: (248) 360-0603

Web: baypointegolfcourse.com

Facebook: Bay Pointe Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: Fuller Family Holes: 18

BAY VALLEY RESORT

2470 Old Bridge Rd. Bay City, MI 48706

Club: (888) 241-4653

Pro Shop: (989) 686-5400

Web: bayvalley.com

Facebook: Bay Valley Resort & Conference Center

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Architect: Desmond Muirhead Holes: 18

BEACON HILL GC

6011 Majestic Oaks Dr.

Commerce Twp., MI 48382

Pro Shop: (248) 684-2200 ext. 1

Web: beaconhillgolf.com

Facebook: Beacon Hill Golf Club and Banquet Center

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

BEAR ON THE MOUNTAIN GC

2061 N Three Mile Rd. Hessel, MI 49745

Club: (906) 484-2107

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula Holes: 18

BEAVER ISLAND GC Beaver Island (231) 448-2301

BEDFORD HILLS GC

6400 Jackman Rd. Temperance, MI 48182

Pro Shop: (734) 854-4653

Web: bedfordhillsgolf.com

Type: Public

Facebook: Bedford Hills Golf

Club

Instagram: @bedfordhillsgc

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1992 Holes: 27

BEECH HOLLOW GC

7494 Hospital Rd. Freeland, MI 48623

Club: (989) 695-5427

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Architect: Elmer Kloha

Founded: 1969 Holes: 18

Barton Hills CC

Battle Creek CC

BEECH WOODS HEATED TEES

Southfield (248) 796-4655

BEECHES GC

9601 68th St.

South Haven, MI 49090

Club: (269) 637-2600

Web: beechesgolfclub.com

Facebook: @BeechesGolfClub

Type: Public

Region: Southwest

Architect: Bruce Matthews III

Founded: 2006

Holes: 18

BEECHWOOD GREENS

Mt. Morris (810) 686-4200

BEE TEE GC

Macomb (586) 493-9500

BELLA VISTA GC

608 One Straight Dr. Coldwater, MI 49036

Club: (517) 238-6085

Web: bellavistagolf.org

Facebook: Bella Vista Golf Course of Coldwater

Type: Public

Region: Southwest

Architect: Ernie Schrock

Holes: 18

Walking Permitted Weekdays ONLY

BELLAIRE

CENTENNIAL GC

3388 W. Eddy School Rd. Bellaire, MI 49615

Pro Shop: (231) 533-6886

Web: golfthecentennial.com

Type: Public

Region: Northwest Founded: 1996 Holes: 18

BELLE ISLE GC

Detroit (313) 566-4146

BELLE RIVER GC

12564 Belle River Rd. Memphis, MI 48041 Club: (810) 392-2121

Web: bellerivergolfcourse.com

Facebook: Belle River Golf

Course

Type: Public

Region: East Central Holes: 18

BELLO WOODS GC

Macomb (586) 949-1200

BELVEDERE GC

5731 Marion Center Rd. Charlevoix, MI 49720

Club: (231) 547-2512

Toll Free: (866) 547-2611

Pro Shop: (231) 547-2611

Web: belvederegolfclub.com

Facebook: Belvedere Golf Club

Type: Private Region: Northwest

Architect: William Watson

BENONA SHORES GC

3410 Scenic Dr. Shelby, MI 49455

Club: 231-861-2098

Type: Public

Facebook: Benona Shores Golf

Course

Region: West Central

Founded: 1974

Architect: Bob Hukill

Holes: 18

BENT PINE GC

Whitehall (231) 766-2045

BINDER PARK GC

7255 B Drive S.

Battle Creek, MI 49014

Pro Shop: (269) 979-8250

Web: binderparkgolf.com

Facebook: Binder Park Golf

Course

Type: Public Region: Southwest Holes: 27

Founded: 1963

BIRCH POINTE GC

St. Helen (989) 389-7009

BIRCH VALLEY GC Sears (231) 734-9112

BIRCHWOOD FARMS G&CC

600 Birchwood Dr. Harbor Springs, MI 49740

Pro Shop: (231) 526-6245

Web: birchwoodcc.com

Facebook: Birchwood Farms

Golf & Country Club

Type: Private Region: Northwest

Architects: Bruce Matthews/ Jerry Matthews

Founded: 1972 Holes: 27

BIRD CREEK GC

7850 N. Van Dyke

Port Austin, MI 48467

Pro Shop: (989) 738-4653

Web: birdcreekgolf.com

Facebook: Bird Creek Golf Club

Type: Public Region: East Central

Architect: Bruce Matthews

Founded: 1990 Holes: 18

BIRMINGHAM CC

1750 Saxon Dr. Birmingham, MI 48009 Club: (248) 644-4111

Pro Shop: (248) 220-5144

Web: bhamcc.com

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Founded: 1916

Architect: Tom Bendelow Holes: 18

Caddies Available

BLACK BEAR GC

Vanderbilt (989) 983-4441

BLACK LAKE GC

2800 Maxon Rd.

Onaway, MI 49765

Pro Shop: (989) 733-4653

Web: blacklakegolf.com

Facebook: @UAWEvents

Type: Public Region: Northeast

Architect: Rees Jones

Founded: 2000

Holes: 27

BLACK RIVER GC

3300 Country Club Dr. Port Huron, MI 48060

Pro Shop: (810) 982-5251

Web: blackrivercountryclub.com

Facebook: Black River Country Club

Type: Public Region: East Central Founded: 1926

Architect: William Diddel

Holes: 18

BLACKHEATH GC

3311 N. Rochester Rd.

Rochester Hills, MI 48306

Pro Shop: (248) 601-8000

Web: blackheathgolfclub.com

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1994

Architect: Kevin Aldrich Holes: 18

BLOOMFIELD HILLS CC

350 W. Long Lake Rd.

Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

Club: (248) 644-6262

Pro Shop: (248) 646-2626

Web: bloomfieldhillscc.org

Type: Private

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1909

Architect: H.S. Colt

Holes: 18

Caddies Available

BLOSSOM TRAILS GC

Benton Harbor (269) 925-4951

BLYTHEFIELD COUNTRY CLUB

5801 Northland Dr. Belmont, MI 49306

Club: (616) 361-2661

Pro Shop: (616) 363-1902

Grounds Dept: (616) 363-5945

Web: blythefieldcc.org

Facebook: Blythefield Country Club

Type: Private Region: West Central

Founded: 1928

Architect: Langford/Moreau

Restoration: Chris Wilczynski (2020)

Holes: 18

Caddies Available

BONNIE VIEW GC

Eaton Rapids (517) 663-4363

BOULDER CREEK GC

5750 Brewer Ave. NE

Facebook: Boulder Creek Golf

Club (Belmont MI)

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Founded: 1998

Architect: Mark DeVries

Holes: 18

BOULDER CREEK GC

Bessemer (906) 932-9066

BOULDER POINTE GC

One Champions Circle Oxford, MI 48371

Pro Shop: (248) 969-1500

Web: boulderpointe.net

Facebook: Boulder Pointe Golf Club and Banquet Center

Instagram: @BoulderPointeMI

Type: Semi-private Region: Southeast Founded: 2000

Architects: Conroy/Dewling Holes: 27

BOYNE MOUNTAIN RESORT/BOYNE RESORTS

1 Boyne Mountain Rd. Boyne Falls, MI 49713

Golf Shop: (231) 549-6028

Web: Boynegolf.com

Facebook: BOYNE Golf

Instagram: @Boyne.golf

Type: Resort Region: Northwest

The Alpine Course

Architect: Bill Newcomb Holes: 18

The Monument Course

Architect: Bill Newcomb/Everett Kircher Holes: 18

BRAE BURN GC

10860 W. 5 Mile Rd. Plymouth, MI 48170

Pro Shop: (734) 453-1900

Pro Shop: (800) 714-6700

Web: braeburngc.com

Facebook: Brae Burn Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

BRENTWOOD GOLF CLUB & BANQUET CENTER

2450 Havenwood White Lake, MI 48383

Pro Shop: (248) 684-2662

Web: brentwoodgc.com

Facebook: Brentwood Golf Club and Banquet Center

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architect: Jim Ludwig Holes: 18

BRIAR RIDGE GC

11099 W. Dodge Rd. Montrose, MI 48457

Pro Shop: (810) 639-4653

Type: Public Region: East Central Holes: 18

BRIARWOOD GC

Caledonia (616) 698-8720

BROADMOOR CC

Caledonia (616) 891-8000

BROOKSHIRE INN & GC Williamston (517) 655-4694

BROOKSIDE GOLF & GRILL

1518 S. Johnson Rd. Gowen, MI 49326

Pro Shop: (616) 984-2381

Web: brooksidegolf.com

Facebook: BrooksideGolfandgrill

Type: Public

Region: West Central Holes: 18

BROOKSIDE GC

Saline (734) 429-4276

BROOKWOOD GOLF CLUB

998 Brookwood Lane

Rochester Hills, MI 48309

Pro Shop: (248) 651-4820

Web: brookwood.golf

Facebook: Brookwood Golf Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast Founded: 1976

Architect: William Newcomb Holes: 9

BROOKWOOD GOLF COURSE

1339 Rynearson Rd. Buchanan, MI 49107

Pro Shop: (269) 695-7818

Web: golfbrookwood.com

Facebook: Brookwood Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southwest Holes: 18

BRUCE HILLS GC

6771 Taft Rd. Romeo, MI 48065

Pro Shop: (586) 752-7244

Web: golfbrucehills.com

Facebook: Bruce Hills Golf Course

Instagram: @brucehillsgolf

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Founded: 1967 Holes: 18

BUCKS RUN GC

1559 S. Chippewa Rd. Mount Pleasant, MI 48858

Pro Shop: (989) 773-6830

Web: bucksrun.com

Facebook: Bucks Run Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Founded: 2000

Holes: 18

Caddies Available

Belmont, MI 49306

Pro Shop: (616) 363-1330

Web: bouldercreekgolfclub.com

Web: briarridgegolf.com

Facebook: Briar Ridge Golf Course

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 18

BURR OAK GC

Parma (517) 531-4741

BUSHWOOD GC

Northville (734) 420-3200

CCABERFAE PEAKS SKI & GOLF RESORT

Cadillac (231) 862-3000

CADILLAC CC

5510 E. M-55

Cadillac, MI 49601

Club: (231) 775-8586

Pro Shop: (231) 775-9442

Web: cadillaccountryclub.org

Facebook: Cadillac Country Club

Type: Semi-private Region: Northwest

Founded: 1910 Holes: 18

CALDERONE GC

4490 Willis Rd. Grass Lake, MI 49240

Pro Shop: (517) 522-6661

Web: calderonegolfclub.com

Facebook: Calderone Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: William Newcomb

Holes: 18

CALUMET GC

54720 Golf Course Rd. Calumet, MI 49913

Club: (906) 337-3911

Facebook: Calumet Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula Holes: 9

CANADIAN LAKES CC

6898 Clubhouse Dr. Stanwood, MI 49346

Pro Shop: (231) 972-8979

Web: canadianlakes.org

Type: Private Region: West Central

Founded: 1982

Holes: 36

CANDLESTONE

GOLF & RESORT

8100 N. Storey Rd.

Belding, MI 48809

Club: (616) 794-1580

Pro Shop: (616) 608-0681

Web: candlestone.com

Facebook: Candlestone Resort

Type: Resort Region: West Central

Architect: Bruce Matthews

Founded: 1978 Holes: 18

THE CAPTAIN’S CLUB

10200 Woodfield Dr. Grand Blanc, MI 48439

Pro Shop: (810) 695-4653

Web: https://thecaptainsclub. golf/.com

Facebook: The Captains Club at Woodfield

Type: Public Region: East Central

Founded: 1994

Architects: Harry Bowers/ Raymond Floyd

Business: (734) 354-9274

Web: carlsgolfland.com

Facebook: Carl’s Golfland

Region: Southeast

Type: Pro Shop/Driving Range

CARLETON GLEN GC

13470 Grafton Rd. Carleton, MI 48117

Club: (734) 654-6201

Type: Public

Facebook: Carleton Glen

Golf Club

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1960

CARO GC

Caro (989) 673-7797

CARRINGTON GC

911 St. James Park Ave. Monroe, MI 48161

Pro Shop: (734) 241-0707

Web: golfcarrington.com

Facebook: Carrington Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southeast Founded: 1998

Architect: Brian Huntley Holes: 18

CASCADE HILLS CC

3725 Cascade Rd. SE Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Club: (616) 949-0810

Business Office: (517) 768-2916

Web: cascadesgolfcourse.com

Facebook: Cascades Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1929

Architect: Tom Bendelow Holes: 18

CASEVILLE GC

Caseville (989) 856-2613

CASTLE CREEK GC

Attica (810) 724-0851

CATTAILS GC

57737 9 Mile Rd.

South Lyon, MI 48178

Pro Shop: (248) 486-8777

Web: cattailsgolfclub.com

Facebook: Cattails Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1991

Architects: Don Childs/Doug Palm

Holes: 18

CEDAR CHASE GC

7551 17 Mile Rd. NE

Cedar Springs, MI 49319

Pro Shop: (616) 696-2308

Web: cedarchasegolfclub.com

Facebook: Cedar Chase Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Founded: 1974

Architect: Robert Beard Holes: 18

CEDAR GLEN GC

New Baltimore (586) 725-8156

CEDAR VALLEY GC

Comins (989) 848-2792

CENTENNIAL ACRES

12485 Dow Rd.

Sunfield, MI 48890

Pro Shop: (517) 566-8055

Web: centennialacres.com

Facebook: Centennial Acres Golf

Course

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Founded: 1979

Architect: Warner Bowen Holes: 27

CENTURY OAKS

PUBLIC GC

P.O. Box 154

4570 Pigeon Rd. Elkton, MI 48731

Pro Shop: (989) 375-4419

Facebook: @

Centuryoakspublicgolfcoursellc

Type: Public Region: East Central

Architect: Jim & Tom Matteson Holes: 9

CHAMPION HILL GC

501 N. Marshall Rd. Beulah, MI 49617

Pro Shop: (231) 882-9200

Web: championhill.com

Facebook: Champion Hill Golf

Course

Type: Public Region: Northwest

Architects: Jim Cole/Lee Stone Holes: 18

CHANDLER PARK GC

12801 Chandler Park Dr. Detroit, MI 48213

Pro Shop: (313) 331-7755

Web: www.chandler.golf

Facebook: Chandler Park Golf

Course

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Founded: 1929

Architect: William Grill Holes: 18

HILLS

CARL’S GOLFLAND/ BLOOMFIELD

1976 Telegraph Rd. Bloomfield Hills, MI 48032

Business: (248) 335-8095

Web: carlsgolfland.com

Facebook: Carl’s Golfland

Region: Southeast

Type: Pro Shop/Driving Range

CARL’S GOLFLAND/ PLYMOUTH

44135 5 Mile Rd. Plymouth, MI 48170

Pro Shop: (616) 949-0740

Web: cascadehillscc.com

Facebook: Cascade Hills

Country Club

Type: Private Region: West Central

Founded: 1921

Holes: 27

Caddies Available

CASCADES GC

1992 Warren Ave. Jackson, MI 49203

Pro Shop: (517) 788-4323

Type: Public

Owner: Dick Card

Region: West Central

Architect: Bruce Matthews III Holes: 18

CEDAR CREEK GOLF CLUB

14000 Renton Road

Battle Creek, MI

Pro Shop: (269)-965-6423

Web: cedargolfclub.com

Facebook: Cedar Creek Golf Course

CHARLEVOIX GC

400 Fairway Dr. Charlevoix, MI 49720

Pro Shop: (231) 547-3268

Web: cityofcharlevoix.org/156/ Golf-Course

Facebook: Charlevoix Golf Club

(Municipal)

Type: Public Region: Northwest Holes: 9

Walking Permitted (pull carts available)

No motorized carts available

Candlestone Golf & Resort

CHASE HAMMOND GC

2454 Putnam Rd.

Muskegon, MI 49423

Pro Shop: (231) 766-3035

Web: chasehammondgolfclub. com

Facebook: Chase Hammond Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Founded: 1970 Holes: 18

Architect: Mark DeVries

CHEBOYGAN G&CC

1431 Old Mackinaw Rd. Cheboygan, MI 49721

Pro Shop: (231) 627-4264

Web: cheboygangolf.com

Facebook: Cheboygan Golf & Country Club

Type: Semi-private Region: Northeast

Founded: 1921 Holes: 18

CHEMUNG HILLS GC

3125 Golf Club Rd. Howell, MI 48843

Club: (517) 546-4230

Web: chemunghills.com

Type: Public

Region: Southeast Founded: 1927 Holes: 18

CHERRY CREEK GC

52000 Cherry Creek Dr. Shelby Twp., MI 48316

Pro Shop: (586) 254-7700

Web: cherrycreekgolf.com

Facebook: Cherry Creek Golf Club and Banquet Center

Type: Public

Region: Southeast Founded: 1995

Architects: Lanny Wadkins/Mike Bylen Holes: 18

CHERRYWOOD GC

Ottawa Lake (734) 856-6669

CHESHIRE HILLS GC

3829 102nd Ave. Allegan, MI 49010

Pro Shop: (269) 673-2882

Web: cheshirehills.com

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Architects: Alan, Herb and Ken Johnson Holes: 27

Children 12 and under play free. If riding cart fee applies.

CHESTNUT HILLS GC

7700 Glovers Lake Rd

Bear Lake, MI 49614

Pro Shop: (231) 864-2458

Web: chestnutgolf.com

Type: Public

Region: Northwest

Architect: Doug Carter

CHESTNUT VALLEY GC

1875 Clubhouse Dr.

Harbor Springs, MI 49740

Club: (231) 526-9100

Web: chestnutvalleygolf.com

Facebook: Chestnut Valley Golf

Course

Type: Public Region: Northwest

Architect: Larry Mancour Holes: 18

THE CHIEF GC

5085 Shanty Creek Rd.

Bellaire, MI 49615

Pro Shop: (231) 533-9000

Web: golfthechief.com

Type: Public Region: Northwest Founded: 2000 Holes: 18

CHIKAMING CC

15029 Lakeside Rd. Lakeside, MI 49116

Club: (269) 469-5141

Pro Shop: (269) 469-5484

Web: chikamingcc.org

Type: Private Region: Southwest

Founded: 1913

Architect: Harry Collis Holes: 18

CLARK LAKE GC

Brooklyn (517) 592-6259

CLEAR LAKE GC

Big Rapids (231) 796-8200

CLEARBROOK GC

Saugatuck (269) 857-2000

CLIO CC

13141 N. Linden Rd. Clio, MI 48420

Club: (810) 686-0211

Pro Shop: (810) 687-0340

Web: cliocountryclub.com

Facebook: Clio Country Club

Type: Private Region: East Central Holes: 18

Founded: 1960

COLDWATER GC

270 Narrows Rd.

Coldwater, MI 49036

Pro Shop: (517) 279-2100

Web: coldwatergolfcourse.com

Facebook: The Coldwater Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southwest Holes: 18

COLLEGE FIELDS

3800 Hagadorn

Okemos, MI 48864

Pro Shop: (517) 332-8100

COLONIAL GC

2763 N. 72nd Ave.

Hart, MI 49420

Pro Shop: (231) 873-8333

Web: colonialgolfhart.com

Facebook: Colonial Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architect: Jeff Gorney

Founded: 1999

Holes: 18

CONCORD HILLS GC

Concord (517) 524-8337

COPPER CREEK GC

Farmington Hills (248) 489-1777

COPPER HILLS G&CC

2125 Lakeville Rd.

Oxford, MI 48370

Club: (248) 969-9808

Web: copperhills.com

Facebook: Copper Hills Golf & Country Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architect: Curtis Wright

Holes: 27

Founded: 1997

COPPER RIDGE GC Davison (810) 658-7775

CORUNNA HILLS GC Corunna (989) 277-0477

COUNTRY CLUB OF DETROIT

220 Country Club Dr. Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236

Club: (313) 881-8000

Pro Shop: (313) 881-8779

Web: ccofd.com

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Founded: 1897

Architects: H.S. Colt & C.H. Alison Holes: 18 (Championship Course)

9-hole short course

Caddies Available

COUNTRY CLUB OF JACKSON

3135 Horton Rd. Jackson, MI 49203

Club: (517) 783-2661

Pro Shop: (517) 782-5347

Web: countryclubofjackson.com

Facebook: Country Club of Jackson

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Founded: 1926

Architects: Arthur Hamm/Arthur Hills

Holes: 27

Caddies Available

COUNTRY CLUB OF LANSING

Founded: 1908

Architect: William Langford

Holes: 18

Caddies Available

COUNTY LINE GC

2278 South Reese Rd. Reese, MI 48757

Club: (989) 868-4991

Facebook: County Line Golf Course

Type: Public Region: East Central Holes: 9

Founded: 1972

COUNTRY MEADOWS GC

Escanaba (906) 786-1565

COYOTE GC

28700 Milford Rd.

New Hudson, MI 48165

Pro Shop: (248) 486-1228

Web: coyotegolfclub.com

Facebook: Coyote Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: Scott Thacker Holes: 18

COYOTE PRESERVE GC

9218 Preserve Dr. Fenton, MI 48430

Pro Shop: (810) 714-3206

Web: coyotepreserve.com

Facebook: Coyote Preserve Golf Club

Type: Public Region: East Central

Architect: Arnold Palmer

Holes: 18

CRACKLEWOOD GC

18215 24 Mile Rd. Macomb, MI 48042

Pro Shop: (586) 781-0808

Web: cracklewood.com

Facebook: @Cracklewood

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1989

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 18

CRESTVIEW GC

Zeeland (616) 875-8101

CRESTVIEW GC

Kalamazoo (269) 349-1111

CROOKED CREEK GC

9387 Gratiot Rd. Saginaw, MI 48609

Pro Shop: (989) 781-4653

Type: Public Region: Northwest

Holes: 18

Architect: Arthur Hills (2013 redesign)

THE CROWN GC

2430 W. Crown Dr. Traverse City, MI 49684

Club: (231) 946-2975

Web: golfthecrown.com

Facebook: The Crown Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Northwest Founded: 1998 Holes: 18

CRYSTAL DOWNS CC

249 E. Crystal Downs Dr. Frankfort, MI 49635

Club Office: (231) 352-9933

Pro Shop: (231) 352-7979

Type: Private Region: Northwest

Architect: Alister MacKenzie Holes: 18

MTESP Certified Guest of member only

CRYSTAL LAKE GC

8493 Fairway Dr. Beulah, MI 49617

Club: (231) 882-4061

Web: crystallakegolfmi.com

Facebook: Crystal Lake Golf

Type: Public

Region: Northwest

Architects: Bruce & Jerry Matthews

Founded: 1970 Holes: 18

CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN

12500 Crystal Mountain Dr. Thompsonville, MI 49683

Pro Shop: (888) 968-7686 ext. 4000

Web: crystalmountain.com

Facebook: Crystal Mountain Type: Resort

Region: Northwest MTESP Certified

Mountain Ridge

Architect: Bill Newcomb Holes: 18

Betsie Valley

Web: thecreekandthevalley.com

Type: Public Region: East Central Founded: 1959 Holes: 18

Architect: Renovated by Paul Albanese Holes: 18

CRYSTAL VIEW GC

602 Wagner

Crystal Falls, MI 49920

Club: (906) 875-6647

Pro Shop: (906) 875-3029

Web: crystalviewgolfcourse.com

Web: collegefields.net

Facebook: College Fields Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Holes: 18

Founded: 2006

Architect: David Savic Holes: 18

2200 Moores River Dr. Lansing, MI 48911

Club: (517) 484-4567

Pro Shop: (517) 318-5219

Web: cclansing.org

Facebook: Country Club of Lansing

Type: Private Region: Southeast

CROOKED TREE GC/BOYNE RESORTS

600 Crooked Tree Dr. Petoskey, MI 49770

Club: (231) 439-4030

Web: boyne.com/bayharbor

Facebook: BOYNE Golf

Instagram: @Boyne.golf

Facebook: Crystal View Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula

Founded: 1929 Holes: 9

CURRIE MUNICIPAL GC

1006 Currie Pkwy.

Midland, MI 48640

Pro Shop: (989) 839-9600

Web: curriegolf.com

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Founded: 1954

West Course

Architect: Jerry Matthews

Holes: 18

East Course

Holes: 9

Par 3 Course

Holes: 9

CUSTER GREENS GC

Battle Creek (269) 968-7398

DDAVISON CC

9512 E. Lippincott Blvd.

Davison, MI 48423

Club: (810) 658-5211

Pro Shop: (810) 653-5301

Web: dccdac.com

Type: Private

Architects: Ellis/Arndt/Truesdale

Holes: 18

DEARBORN CC

800 N. Military

Dearborn, MI 48124

Club: (313) 561-0800

Pro Shop: (313) 561-4433

Web: dearborncountryclub.net

Facebook: Dearborn Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architects: Donald Ross/ C.E. Robinson

Holes: 18

Caddies Available

HILLS GC

Dearborn (313) 563-4653

DEER RUN GC

Horton (517) 688-3350

DEER RUN GC Lowell (616) 897-8481

DEER VIEW GC

Imlay City (810) 395-1821

DEME ACRES GC

17707 Albain Rd. Petersburg, MI 49270

Club: (734) 279-1151

Web: demeacres.com

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1962 Holes: 18

DETROIT GC

17911 Hamilton Rd. Detroit, MI 48203

Pro Shop: (313) 345-1818

Web: detroitgolfclub.org

Facebook: Detroit Golf Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

South Course

Architect: Donald Ross Holes: 18

Caddies Available Pull carts in off season

North Course

Architect: Donald Ross Holes: 18

Caddies Available Pull carts in off season

DEVIL’S KNOB GC Harrison (989) 539-5662

DEVILS LAKE GC

Manitou Beach (517) 547-3653

DIAMOND LAKE GC

Cassopolis (269) 445-3143

DIAMOND SPRINGS GC

3400 34th St.

Hamilton, MI 49419

Pro Shop: (269) 751-4545

Web: diamondspringsgolf.com

Facebook: Diamond Springs

Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Architects: Kris Shumaker/ Mike DeVries Holes: 18

DOWAGIAC ELKS GC

Dowagiac (269) 782-3889

DOWNING FARMS GC

Northville (248) 486-0990

THE DREAM GC

5266 Old 76 (West M-55) West Branch, MI 48661

Pro Shop: (877) 345-6300

Web: thedream.golf

Facebook: The Dream The

Nightmare

Type: Public

Region: Northeast

Architect: John Gorney Holes: 18

DRUMMOND ISLAND GC

Drummond Island (906) 493-5406

DUCK LAKE CC

2827 Country Club Way

Albion, MI 49224

Pro Shop: (517) 629-6000

Web: ducklakecc.com

Type: Private Region: Southwest

Founded: 1922

Holes: 18

DUNDEE GC

Dundee (734) 529-2321

THE DUNES GC

New Buffalo (269) 469-5539

DUNES GC Empire (231) 326-5390

DUNHAM HILLS GC

13561 Dunham Rd. Hartland, MI 48353

Pro Shop: (248) 887-9170

Web: dunhamhills.com

Facebook: Dunham Hills Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southeast Founded: 1967 Holes: 18

DUNMAGLAS GC Charlevoix (231) 547-4653

DUTCH HOLLOW GC

Durand (989) 288-3960

EEAGLE CREST GC

1201 S. Huron St. Ypsilanti, MI 48197

Club: (734) 487-2441

Web: eaglecrestresort.com

Instagram: @eaglecrestgolfclubemu

Facebook: eaglecrestgolfclubemu

Type: University/Resort Region: Southeast

Founded: 1989

Architect: Carl Litten

Founded: 1989 Holes: 18

EAGLE EYE GC

15500 Chandler Rd.

Bath, MI 48808

Pro Shop: (517) 903-8063

Web: eagleeyegolfclub.com

Facebook: Eagle Eye Golf & Banquet Center

Type: Public Region: West Central

Founded: 2003

Architects: Chris Lutzke/Pete Dye Holes: 18

EAGLE GLEN GC

1251 Clubhouse Dr. Farwell, MI 48622

Pro Shop: (989) 588-4424

Facebook: Eagle Glen Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Northwest

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 18

Mandatory carts on weekends, holidays until 1 p.m.

EAGLE RIDGE GC

Glennie (989) 735-3500

EAGLE VIEW GC

Mason (517) 676-5366

EAGLE’S NEST GC Nahma (906) 644-2728

EASTERN HILLS GC

6075 East G Ave. Kalamazoo, MI 49004

Pro Shop: (269) 385-8175

Web: kmgagolf.com

Facebook: KMGA–Milham Park, Eastern Hills & Red Arrow Golf Courses

Type: Public

Region: Southwest

Founded: 1959 Holes: 27

EDGEWOOD CC

8399 Commerce Rd. Commerce Twp., MI 48382 Club: (248) 363-7112

Pro Shop: (248) 363-6189

Web: edgewoodcountryclub.org

Facebook: Edgewood Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: Ernest W. Way

Founded: 1969 Holes: 18

Caddies Available

EGYPT VALLEY CC

7333 Knapp NE Ada, MI 49301

Club: (616) 676-2626

Pro Shop: (616) 676-3989

Web: egyptvalley.com

Facebook: Egypt Valley Country Club

Type: Private Region: West Central

Founded: 1921

MTESP Certified

DEARBORN

Dearborn CC

Ridge Course

Architect: Arthur Hills

Holes: 18

Valley Course

Architect: Arthur Hills

Holes: 18

ELDORADO

7839 E. 46 ½ Rd.

Cadillac, MI 49601

Pro Shop: (231) 779-9977

Web: golfeldorado.com

Facebook: Eldorado Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: Northwest

Founded: 1996

Architect: Bob Meyer

Holes: 18

ELDORADO GC

3750 W. Howell Rd. Mason, MI 48854

Pro Shop: (517) 676-2854

Web: eldorado27.com

Facebook: Eldorado Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1965

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 27

ELK RAPIDS GC

724 Ames St.

Elk Rapids, MI 49629

Pro Shop: (231) 264-8891

Web: golfelkrapids.com

Type: Semi-private

Region: Northwest

Founded: 1922

Architect: Donald Ross

Holes: 9

ELLA SHARP PARK GC

2800 4th St. Jackson, MI 49203

Pro Shop: (517) 788-4066

Web: cityofjackson.org

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1924

Architects: Tom Bendelow/Harry Bowers Holes: 18

ELMBROOK GC

1750 Townline Rd.

Traverse City, MI 49696

Pro Shop: (231) 946-9180

Web: elmbrookgolf.com

Facebook: Elmbrook Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: Northwest

Founded: 1964

Holes: 18

THE EMERALD GC

2300 W. Maple Rapids Rd.

St. Johns, MI 48879

Pro Shop: (989) 224-6287

Web: emeraldgolfcourse.com

Facebook: The Emerald Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architect: Jerry Matthews

Holes: 18

Founded: 1996

EMERALD HILLS GC Marshall (269) 367-2121

EMERALD VALE GC Manton (231) 824-3631

EPWORTH HEIGHTS GC Ludington (231) 843-6355

ESCANABA CC

1800 11th Ave. S. Escanaba, MI 49829

Pro Shop: (906) 786-4430

Web: escanabacc.com

Facebook: Escanaba Country Club

Type: Semi-Private Region: Upper Peninsula Founded: 1915 Holes: 18

ESSEX G&CC

7555 Matchette Rd. LaSalle, ONT, N9J 2S4, Canada Club: (519) 734-1251

Pro Shop: (519) 734-7816

Toll Free: (855) 213-1251

Web: essexgolf.com

Facebook: Essex Golf & Country Club

Type: Private Region: Canada

Architect: Donald Ross Holes: 18

Caddies Available

EVERGREEN GC Hudson (517) 448-8174

EVERGREEN HILLS GC

26000 Evergreen Rd. Southfield, MI 48076

Pro Shop: (248) 796-4666

Web: cityofsouthfield.com/departments/parks-recreation/golf

Facebook: @

Evergreenhillsgolfcourse

Instagram: @city_of_southfield

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1972

Architect: Bruce Matthews III

Holes: 9

Walking Permitted

EVERGREEN RESORT Cadillac (231) 942-7021

EXCALIBUR GC

800 Mill Iron Rd. Muskegon, MI 49442

Pro Shop: (231) 773-7171

Web: excaliburgolfclub.net

Facebook: Excalibur Golf Club

Type: Public Region: West Central Holes: 9

FFAIRVIEW HILLS GC Mio (989) 848-5810

FALCON GC Bath (517) 371-3484

THE FALLS AT BARBER

CREEK

16030 Barber Creek Ave. Kent City, MI 49330

Club: (616) 675-7345

Web: thefallsatbc.com

Facebook: The Falls at Barber Creek

Type: Public Region: West Central Holes: 18

FARMINGTON HILLS GC

37777 11 Mile Ct.

Farmington Hills, MI 48335

Pro Shop: (248) 476-5910

Web: fhgov.com

Facebook: City of Farmington Hills, Michigan – Municipal Government

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 2003

Architect: Don Childs Holes: 18

FAULKWOOD SHORES GC

300 S. Hughes Rd. Howell, MI 48843

Pro Shop: (517) 546-4180

Web: faulkwoodshoresgolf.com

Facebook: Faulkwood Shores Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1969

Architect: Ralph Banfield Holes: 18

FAWN CREST GC

Wellston (231) 848-4174

FELLOWS CREEK GC

2936 Lotz Rd. Canton, MI 48188

Pro Shop: (734) 728-1300

Web: fellowscreekgolf.com

Facebook: Fellows Creek Golf Club and Banquet Facility

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1963

Architects: Bruce Matthews/ Jerry Matthews Holes: 27

FENTON FARMS GC

12312 Torrey Rd. Fenton, MI 48430

Pro Shop: (810) 882-1014

Web: fentonfarms.com

Facebook: Fenton Farms Golf

Club

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Founded: 1930

Architect: George Crane Holes: 18

FERN HILL GC

Clinton Twp. (586) 286-4700

THE FIELDS GC

1508 N State Rd. Ithaca, MI 48847

Pro Shop: (989) 875-4612

Web: thefieldsgolfcourse.com

Facebook: thefieldsgolfcourse

Type: Public Region: West Central

Founded: 1932 Holes: 18

FIELDSTONE GC OF AUBURN HILLS

1984 Taylor Rd.

Auburn Hills, MI 48326

Pro Shop: (248) 370-9354 ext. 2

Web: fieldstonegolfclub.com

Facebook: Fieldstone Golf Club of Auburn Hills

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1998

Architect: Arthur Hills Holes: 18

FIREFLY GOLF LINKS

Clare (989) 386-3510

Flint GC

FLINT ELKS GC

7177 E. Maple Ave.

Grand Blanc, MI 48439

Club: (810) 743-9440

Pro Shop: (810) 743-0730

Web: flintelks222.com

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Founded: 1970

Architect: Larry Mancour Holes: 18

FLINT GC

3100 Lakewood Dr. Flint, MI 48507

Club: (810) 743-6100

Pro Shop: (810) 743-6750

Web: flintgolfclub.com

Facebook: The Real Flint Golf Club

Type: Private Region: East Central

Founded: 1910

Architect: Willie Park Jr. Holes: 18

Only club-owned pull carts

allowed

FLUSHING VALLEY G&CC

1124 E. Main St. Flushing, MI 48433

Club: (810) 487-0792

Facebook: Flushing Valley Country Club & Golf

Type: Semi-private

Region: East Central

Founded: 1959

Architects: Wilfrid Reid/William Connellan Holes: 18

FOREST AKERS GC

3535 Forest Rd., Suite C88A Lansing, MI 48910

Club: (517) 355-1635

Web: golf.msu.edu

Facebook: Forest Akers Golf

Course @ Michigan State University

Type: University

Region: Southeast

MTESP Certified

Founded: 1958

East Course

Architect: Arthur Hills

Holes: 18

MSU students and alumni enjoy discounted rates

West Course

Architect: Arthur Hills

Holes: 18

MSU students and alumni enjoy discounted rates

FOREST DUNES GC

6376 Forest Dunes Dr. Roscommon, MI 48653

Pro Shop: (989) 275-0700

Web: forestdunesgolf.com

Facebook: Forest Dunes Golf

Club

Type: Semiprivate Region: Northeast

Founded: 2000

Architect: Tom Weiskopf Design Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

Forest Dunes Course

The Loop

Architect: Tom Doak

Superintendent: Rob Falconer

Holes: 18/36

FOREST LAKE CC

1401 Club Dr. Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302

Club: (248) 332-8300

Pro Shop: (248) 332-7070

Web: flcc.us

Facebook: Forest Lake Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast Founded: 1926

Architect: William Diddle

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

Caddies Available

Pull carts not allowed

THE FORTRESS

950 Flint St. Frankenmuth, MI 48734

Pro Shop: (989) 652-0460

Web: zehnders.com

Facebook: The Fortress

Type: Public Region: East Central Founded: 1992

Architect: Dick Nugent Holes: 18

THE FOUNTAINS GOLF & BANQUET

CENTER

6060 Maybee Rd. Clarkston, MI 48346

Club: (248) 625-3731

Web: fountainsgolf.com

Facebook: The Fountains!

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1967

Architects: William Newcomb/ Kevin Aldridge Holes: 18

FOUR LAKES CC

22786 U.S. Highway 12 Edwardsburg, MI 49112

Club: (269) 699-5701

Web: fourlakescc.com

Type: Private Region: Southwest

Founded: 1934 Holes: 18

FOX CREEK GC

36000 7 Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

Pro Shop: (248) 471-3400

Web: golflivonia.com

Facebook: Golf Livonia

Type: Public

Region: Southeast Founded: 1988

Architect: Mark DeVries Holes: 18

THE FOX GC Roscommon (989) 422-2497

FOX HILLS GOLF & BANQUET CENTER/ FOX HILLS LEARNING CENTER

8768 N. Territorial Plymouth, MI 48170

Pro Shop: (734) 453-7272

Web: foxhills.com

Facebook: Fox Hills Golf & Banquet Center

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Strategic Fox

Architect: Ray Hearn Holes: 18

Golden Fox

Architect: Arthur Hills Holes: 18

Fox Classic

Architect: Wilfrid Reed Holes: 27

FRANKLIN HILLS CC

31675 Inkster Rd. Franklin, MI 48025

Club: (248) 851-2200

Pro Shop: (248) 851-6632

Web: franklinhills.com

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: Donald Ross Holes: 18

MTESP Certified Caddies Available

FRUITPORT GC

Muskegon (231) 798-3355

GGARDEN GC

Garden (906) 644-4653

GARLAND LODGE & RESORT

4700 N. Red Oak Rd. Lewiston, MI 49756

Club: (877) 442-7526

Pro Shop: (989) 786-1444

Web: garlandusa.com

Facebook: Garland Lodge and Resort

Type: Resort Region: Northeast

Fountains

Architect: Ron Otto

Founded: 1995 Holes: 18

Monarch

Architect: Ron Otto

Founded: 1990 Holes: 18

Reflections

Architect: Ron Otto Founded: 1992 Holes: 18

Swampfire

Architect: Ron Otto

Founded: 1990 Holes: 18

GARVER LAKE GC

Edwardsburg (269) 663-6463

GAUSS GREEN VALLEY GC Jackson (517) 764-0270

GAYLORD GC 4893 M-32 W. Gaylord, MI 49735

Pro Shop: (231) 546-3376

Web: gaylordgolfclub.com

Facebook: Gaylord

Country Club

Type: Public Region: Northeast

Founded: 1924

Architect: Don Childs Holes: 18

GENESEE VALLEY GC Swartz Creek (810) 732-1401

GENTZ’S HOMESTEAD GC

Marquette (906) 249-1002

GEORGETOWN CC

1365 King George Blvd. Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Club: (734) 971-5500

Web: georgetowncc.com

Facebook: Georgetown Country Club

Instagram: @a2georgetown

Type: Semi-Private

Region: Southeast

Architect: Charles Maddox & Charles Maddox Jr. Holes: 9

Founded: 1970

GIANT OAK GC

1024 Valetta Dr. Temperance, MI 48182

Pro Shop: (734) 847-6733

Web: giantoakgolfclub.com

Facebook: Giant Oak Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architect: Arthur Hills

Holes: 18

Founded: 1969

GLACIER CLUB

8000 Glacier Club Dr. Washington, MI 48094

Pro Shop: (586) 786-0800

Web: glacierclub.com

Facebook: Glacier Club Golf

Course

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Holes: 18

GLADSTONE GC

6514 Days River 24.5 Rd. Gladstone, MI 49837

Club: (906) 428-9646

Web: gladstonegolf.com

Facebook: Gladstone Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula Holes: 18

Garland Lodge & Resort

GLADWIN HEIGHTS GC

Gladwin (989) 426-9941

GLEN OAKS GC

30500 13 Mile Rd.

Farmington Hills, MI 48334

Pro Shop: (248) 851-8356

Web: OaklandCountyParks.com

Type: Public

Region: Southeast Holes: 18

Founded: 1927

MTESP Certified

GLENBRIER GC

Perry (517) 625-3800

GLENEAGLE GC

6150 14th Ave.

Hudsonville, MI 49426

Pro Shop: (616) 457-8800

Web: gegolfclub.com

Facebook: Gleneagle Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Founded: 1997

Architect: Mike Shields

Holes: 18

GLENHURST GC

25345 W. 6 Mile Rd.

Redford, MI 48240

Pro Shop: (313) 592-8758

Web: redfordtwp.com/community/glenhurst-golf-course

Facebook: @GolfRedford

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1932

Architect: George McLain Holes: 18

GLENKERRY GC

1413 East Kent Rd.

Greenville, MI 48838

Club: (616) 225-4653

Web: golfglenkerry.com

Facebook: Glenkerry Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Founded: 1997 Holes: 18

GOGEBIC CC

200 Country Club Dr. Ironwood, MI 49938

Club: (906) 932-2515

Web: golfgogebic.com

Facebook: Gogebic Country Club

Type: Private Region: Upper Peninsula

Founded: 1922 Holes: 18

GOLDEN SANDS GC

Mears (231) 873-4909

GOLDEN HAWK GC

9861 Meisner Ln.

Casco Twp., MI 48064

Pro Shop: (586) 727-4681

Web: goldenhawkgolf.com

Facebook: Golden Hawk Golf

Club & Banquet Center

Type: Public Region: East Central

Founded: 1995

Architect: John Grissim Holes: 18

GOODRICH CC

10080 Hegel Rd.

Goodrich, MI 48438

Pro Shop: (810) 636-2493

Web: goodrichcountryclub.com

Facebook: Goodrich

Country Club

Type: Semi-private Region: East Central Holes: 18

GOWANIE GC

24770 S. River Rd.

Harrison Twp., MI 48045

Club: (586) 468-1431

Pro Shop: (586) 468-1374

Web: gowaniegolfclub.com

Facebook: Gowanie Golf Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: Ross Axford Holes: 18

GRACEWIL CC

Grand Rapids (616) 784-2455

GRAND BEACH MUNICIPAL GC Grand Beach (269) 469-4888

GRAND LEDGE CC

5811 E. St. Joseph Hwy. Grand Ledge, MI 48837

Club: (517) 627-2495

Web: grandledgecountryclub.com

Type: Semi-Private Region: Southwest Founded: 1958 Holes: 18

GRAND PRAIRIE GC

Kalamazoo (269) 388-4447

GRAND TRAVERSE RESORT & SPA

100 Grand Traverse Village Blvd. Acme, MI 49610

Club: (231) 534-6000

Pro Shop: (231) 534-6470

Web: grandtraverseresort.com

Facebook: Grand Traverse Resort & Spa

Type: Resort Region: Northwest MTESP Certified

The Bear

Architect: Jack Nicklaus Holes: 18

Spruce Run

Architect: William Newcomb Holes: 18

The Wolverine

Architect: Gary Player Holes: 18

GRAND VIEW GC New Era (231) 861-6616

THE GRANDE GC

1579 Floyd Ave.

Jackson, MI 49201

Pro Shop: (517) 768-9494

Web: grandegolfclub.com

Facebook: @GrandeGolfClub

Instagram: @GrandeGolfClub

Type: Public

Region: Southeast Founded: 2000

Architect: Ray Hearn Holes: 18

GRANDVIEW GC

3003 Hagni Rd NE

Kalkaska, MI 49646

Pro Shop: (231) 258-3244

Email: Play@grandviewgolfkalkaska.com

Web: grandviewgolfkalkaska.com

Facebook: Grandview Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Northwest Holes: 18

GRAYLING CC

2122 S I-75 Business Loop Grayling, MI 49738

Club: (989) 348-5618

Web: graylingcountryclub.com

Facebook: Grayling Country Club

Type: Public

Region: Northeast

Founded: 1924 Holes: 18

GREAT OAKS

777 Great Oaks Blvd. Rochester, MI 48307

Club: (248) 651-5200

Pro Shop: (248) 651-6566

Web: greatoakscc.com

Facebook: Great Oaks

Country Club

Type: Private

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1971

Architect: McCumber & Associates

Holes: 18

Caddies Available

Pull carts not allowed

GREEN ACRES GC

7323 Dixie Hwy. Bridgeport, MI 48722

Club: (989) 401-6100

Web: golfgreenacres.us

Type: Public

Facebook: Green Acres Golf Courses

Instagram: @GolfGreenAcres

Region: East Central

Architect: Ernie Wohlfeill

Founded: 1960 Holes: 18

GREENBUSH GC

Greenbush (989) 724-6356

GREEN HILLS GC

Pinconning (989) 697-3011

GREEN MEADOWS GC

1555 Strasburg Rd.

Monroe, MI 48161

Pro Shop: (734) 242-5566

Web: greenmeadowsgolf.com

Facebook: Green Meadows

Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

GREEN OAKS GC

1775 E. Clark Rd.

Ypsilanti, MI 48198

Pro Shop: (734) 485-0881

Web: golfgreenoaks.com

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1970

Architect: R.W. Bills Holes: 18

GREEN VALLEY GOLF & HEALTH CLUB

Sturgis (269) 651-6331

GREYSTONE GC & BANQUET CENTER

67500 Mound Rd.

Washington, MI 48095

Pro Shop: (586) 752-7030

Web: golfgreystone.com

Facebook: Greystone Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Founded: 1992

Architect: Jerry Matthews

Holes: 18

GREYWALLS/ MARQUETTE GC

1075 Grove St. Marquette, 49855

Club: (906) 225-0721

Web: golfgreywalls.com

Facebook: Marquette Golf Club

Type: Semi-private Region: Upper Peninsula

Greywalls

Architect: Mike DeVries

Founded: 2005 Holes: 18

The Heritage

Architects: William B. Langford/ Theodore Moreau/David Gill Founded: 1926/1969 Holes: 18

GROESBECK GC

1523 E. Cesar Chavez Ave. Lansing, MI 48906

Pro Shop: (517) 483-4333

Web: groesbeckgolfcourse.com

Facebook: Groesbeck Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architects: Jack Doray/ Jerry Matthews

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

GROSSE ILE G&CC

9339 Bellevue Rd.

Grosse Ile, MI 48138

Club: (734) 676-1166

Pro Shop: (734) 676-1169

Web: gigcc.com

GULL LAKE CC

9725 W. Gull Lake Dr.

Richland, MI 49083

Club: (269) 629-9714

Pro Shop: (269) 629-9311

Web: gulllakecc.com

Facebook: Gull Lake

Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southwest

Founded: 1911

Architect: Tom Bendelow

Holes: 18

GULL LAKE VIEW GOLF CLUB & RESORT

7417 N. 38th St. Augusta, MI 49012

Club: (800) 432-7971

Pro Shop: (269) 731-4149

Web: gulllakeview.com

Facebook: Gull Lake View Golf

Club & Resort

Type: Public Region: Southwest

West Course

Architects: Darl Scott family

Founded: 1963 Holes: 18

East Course

Architects: Darl, Charles and Jim Scott

Founded: 1973 Holes: 18

BEDFORD VALLEY GC

23161 Waubascon Rd.

Battle Creek, MI 49017

Pro Shop: (269) 965-3385

Web: gulllakeview.com

Facebook: Gull Lake View Golf Club & Resort

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Architect: William Mitchell Holes: 18

STOATIN BRAE GC

15579 E. Augusta Dr. Augusta, MI 49012

Pro Shop: (269) 220-3976

Web: gulllakeview.com

Facebook: Gull Lake View Golf Club & Resort

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Architect: Renaissance Golf Design

Holes: 18

STONEHEDGE GC

15530 M-89

Augusta, MI 49012

Pro Shop: (269) 731-2300

Web: gulllakeview.com

Facebook: Grosse Ile Golf & Country Club

Instagram: @Grosseilegcc

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Founded: 1919

Architect: Donald Ross Holes: 18

Caddies Available

No Pull Carts Allowed

Facebook: Gull Lake View Golf Club & Resort

Type: Public Region: Southwest

North Course

Architects: Charles Scott/Jon Scott

Founded: 1995 Holes: 18

South Course

Architect: Charles Scott

Founded: 1988 Holes: 18

GUN RIDGE GC

Hastings (269) 948-8366

HHADLEY ACRES GC

Hadley (810) 797-4820

HAMPSHIRE CC

29592 Pokagon Hwy.

Dowagiac, MI 49047

Pro Shop: (269) 782-7476

Web: hampshire36.com

Facebook: Hampshire Country Club

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Architect: Edward Lawrence

Packard

Holes: 18

Walking Permitted

Dogwood Trail

Architect: Duane Dammeyer

Holes: 18

HAMPTON GC

2600 Club Rd.

Rochester, MI 48307

Pro Shop: (248) 852-3250

Web: golfthehampton.com

Facebook: Hampton Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southeast Holes: 9

HANKERD HILLS GC

Pleasant Lake (517) 769-9156

HARBOR BEACH GC

50 Resort Rd

Harbor Beach, MI 48441

Club: (989) 479-3433

Web: hbraresort.com

Type: Private

Region: East Central

Founded: 1898 Holes: 9

HARBOR POINT GC

8475 S. Lakeshore Dr.

Harbor Springs, MI 49740

Pro Shop: (231) 526-2951

Web: harborpointgolfclub.com

Facebook: Harbor Point Golf

Club

Type: Semi-private Region: Northwest

Founded: 1896

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

Members Only Dates Vary Contact Pro Shop for details

HARBOR SHORES

201 Graham Ave.

Benton Harbor, MI 49022

Club: (269) 927-4653

Web: harborshoresresort.com

Facebook: Harbor Shores

Instagram: harborshoresgolf

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Architect: Jack Nicklaus Holes: 18

Founded: 2006

MTESP Certified

HARBOUR CLUB GC Belleville (734) 697-6845

HARTLAND GLEN GC

12400 Highland Rd. Hartland, MI 48353

Pro Shop: (248) 887-3777

Web: hartlandglen.com

Facebook: Hartland Glen Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southeast

North Course Founded: 1972 Holes: 18

South Course Founded: 1996 Holes: 18

HAWK HOLLOW GC

15101 Chandler Rd. Bath, MI 48808

Pro Shop: (517) 641-5944

Web: eagleeyegolfclub.com

Facebook: Eagle Eye Golf & Banquet Center

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architect: Jerry Matthews

Holes: 27

HAWK MEADOWS

Howell (517) 546-4635

HAWKSHEAD

523 Hawksnest Dr. South Haven, MI 49090

Pro Shop: (269) 639-2121

Web: hawksheadlinks.com

Facebook: HawksHead Links

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Founded: 1996

Architect: Arthur Hills

Holes: 18

HEATHER

HIGHLANDS GC

11450 E. Holly Rd. Holly, MI 48442

Pro Shop: (248) 634-6800

Web: heatherhighlands.com

Facebook: Heather Highlands GC

Holes: 9

Founded: 1990

HEMLOCK GC

5105 W Decker

Ludington, MI 49431

Club: (231) 845-1300

Web: hemlockgolfclub.com

Type: Public Region: Northwest

Architect: Raymond Hearn

Founded: 2002

Holes: 18

HERITAGE GLEN GC

29795 Heritage Ln. Paw Paw, MI 49079

Pro Shop: (269) 657-2552

Web: heritageglengolf.com

Facebook: Heritage Glen Golf Club in Paw Paw, MI

Type: Public

Region: Southwest

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 18

Founded: 1994

HIAWATHA SPORTSMAN’S CLUB GC

W11739 HWY US 2 Naubinway, MI 49762

Club: (906) 477-6592

Web: hiawathaclub.com/Golf

Type: Public Region: Upper Peninsula Holes: 9

HICKORY CREEK GC

3625 Napier Rd.

Superior Twp., MI 48198

Pro Shop: (734) 454-1850

Web: hickorycreekgolf.com

Facebook: Hickory Creek Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Founded: 1965

Architect: Robert Bruce Harris

Holes: 18

HEATHER HILLS GC

3100 McKail Rd. Romeo, MI 48065

Pro Shop: (810) 798-3971

Web: heatherhills.net

Facebook: Heather Hills Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Founded: 1978

Architect: Gunnar Hemstrom

Holes: 18

THE HEATHERS CLUB OF BLOOMFIELD HILLS

900 Upper Scotsborough Way

Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

Club: (248) 334-9770

Pro Shop: (248) 334-4494

Web: heathersclub.com

Facebook: Heathers Club of Bloomfield

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: William Newcomb

HICKORY HILL GC Wixom (248) 624-4733

HICKORY HILLS GC Jackson (517) 750-3636

HICKORY HILLS GC Fenwick (989) 248-3042

HICKORY HOLLOW GC

49001 North Ave. Macomb, MI 48042

Club: (586) 949-9033

Web: hickoryhollowgolfclub.com

Facebook: Hickory Hollow Golf Club

Instagram: @golfhickoryhollow

Type: Public

Region: Southeast Holes: 18

HICKORY KNOLL GC Whitehall (231) 894-5535

HICKORY RIDGE GC Galesburg (269) 382-6212

Heather Hills GC

HIDDEN OAKS GC

1270 W. Monroe Rd.

St. Louis, MI 48880

Club: (989) 681-3404

Web: hiddenoaksgolfmichigan. com

Facebook: Hidden Oaks Golf

Type: Public Region: Central

Architect: Bruce Matthews Sr and Jerry Matthews

Founded: 1970 Holes: 18

HIDDEN RIVER GOLF & CASTING CLUB

7688 Maple River Rd. Brutus, MI 49716

Pro Shop: (231) 529-4653

Web: hiddenriver.com

Facebook: @hiddenrivergolf

Type: Public Region: Northwest

Founded: 1996 Holes: 18

HIGHLAND GC

Escanaba (906) 466-2791

HIGHLAND HILLS GC

Highland (248) 887-4481

THE HIGHLANDS AT HARBOR SPRINGS/ BOYNE RESORTS

600 Highlands Dr. Harbor Springs, MI 49740

Heather Golf Shop: (231) 5263029

Heather Hills-Ross-Moor Golf Shop: (231) 526-3028

Web: highlandsharborsprings.com

Facebook: BOYNE Golf

Instagram: @Boyne.golf

Type: Resort Region: Northwest

Arthur Hills Course

Architect: Arthur Hills

Founded: 2000 Holes: 18

The Heather Course

Architect: Robert Trent Jones Sr. Holes: 18

Donald Ross Memorial Course Holes: 18

Moor Course

Architect: Bill Newcomb Holes: 18

HILLS HEART OF THE LAKES GC

Brooklyn (517) 592-2110

THE HILLS AT BAW BEESE LAKE

1990 Ash-Te-Wette Dr. Hillsdale, MI 49242

Club: (517) 437-7538

Pro Shop: (517) 437-2201

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Founded: 1910 Holes: 9

HILLTOP GC

47000 Powell Rd. Plymouth, MI 48170

Pro Shop: (734) 453-9800

Type: Public

Web: hilltopgc.com

Facebook: Hilltop Golf Course

Region: Southeast Holes: 18

HOLIDAY MEADOWS GC

Durand (810) 621-5454

HOLLAND LAKE GC

Sheridan (989) 291-5757

HOLLY MEADOWS GC

4855 Capac Rd. Capac, MI 48014

Pro Shop: (810) 395-4653

Web: hollymeadows.com

Facebook: Holly Meadows Golf

Bowling Restaurant & Banquet Center

Type: Public

Region: East Central Founded: 1994

Architect: Don Childs Holes: 18

HUCKLEBERRY CREEK GC

Pewamo (989) 593-3305

HUDSON MILLS METROPARK GC

4800 Dexter-Pinckney Rd. Dexter, MI 48130

Pro Shop: (734) 426-0466

Web: golf.metroparks.com

Facebook: Hudson Mills, Delhi & Dexter-Huron Metroparks

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: Sue Nyquist

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

HUNTMORE GC

9595 Estancia Dr. Brighton, MI 48114

Pro Shop: (810) 225-4498

Web: huntmoregolfclub.com

Facebook: Huntmore Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 2000

Architect: Patrick Grelak

Holes: 18

Walking not allowed

HURON BREEZE GC

5200 Huron Breeze Dr. Au Gres, MI 48703

Pro Shop: (989) 876-6868

Web: huronbreeze.com

Type: Public

Region: Northeast

Founded: 1988

Architect: William Newcomb & Associates

Holes: 18

HURON HILLS GC

3465 E. Huron River Dr. Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Pro Shop: (734) 794-6246

Web: huronhillsgolf.com

Facebook: a2golf

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Founded: 1922

Holes: 18

HURON MEADOWS

METROPARK GC

8765 Hammel Rd. Brighton, MI 48116

Pro Shop: (810) 231-4084

Web: golf.metroparks.com

Facebook: Huron Meadows

Metropark

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1984

Architect: Sue Nyquist

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

HURON SHORES GC

1441 N. Lakeshore Rd. Port Sanilac, MI 48469

Pro Shop: (810) 622-9961

Web: huronshoresgolfclub.com

Facebook: Huron Shores Golf Club

Type: Public Region: East Central Holes: 18

IIDYL WYLD GC

35786 5 Mile Rd. Livonia, MI 48154

Pro Shop: (734) 464-6325

Web: golflivonia.com

Facebook: Golf Livonia

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

IMA BROOKWOOD GC

6045 Davison Rd. Burton, MI 48509

Pro Shop: (810) 742-4930

Web: brookwoodgolfclub.com

Facebook: IMA Brookwood Golf Club

Type: Public Region: East Central Founded: 1938 Holes: 18

INDIAN HILLS GC

4887 Nakoma Okemos, MI 48864

Pro Shop: (517) 349-1010

Web: ihcustomgolf.com

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 9

INDIAN HILLS GC Stephenson (906) 753-4781

INDIAN LAKE G&CC Manistique (906) 341-5600

INDIAN LAKE HILLS GC

55321 Brush Lake Rd. Eau Claire, MI 49111

Club: (269) 782-2540

Web: indianlakehills.com

Facebook: Indian Lake Hills Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southwest Founded: 1925 Holes: 27

INDIAN RIVER GC

3301 Chippewa Beach Rd.

Indian River, MI 49749

Club: (231) 238-7011

Pro Shop: (231) 238-7011

Web: indianrivergolfclub.com

Facebook: Indian River Golf Club

Type: Semi-private Region: Northeast Founded: 1923

Architects: Warner Bowen/ Wilfrid Reid Holes: 18

INDIAN RUN GC

6359 RS Ave E. Scotts, MI 49088

Club: (269) 327-1327

Web: irgolfclub.com

Type: Public Region: Southwest Holes: 18

INDIAN SPRINGS METROPARK

5100 Indian Tr. White Lake, MI 48386

Pro Shop: (248) 625-7870

Web: golf.metroparks.com

Facebook: Huron-Clinton

Metroparks

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1989

Architect: Sue Nyquist

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

INDIAN TRAILS GC

2776 Kalamazoo Ave. SE

Grand Rapids, MI 49507

Pro Shop: (616) 245-2021

Huron Hills GC

Web: indiantrailsgc.org

Type: Public Region: Southwest Holes: 18

Founded: 1928

INDIANWOOD G&CC

1081 Indianwood Rd. Lake Orion, MI 48361

Club: (248) 693-9100

Pro Shop: (248) 693-8049

Web: iwgcc.com/home/

Type: Private

Founded: 1925

Region: Southeast

New Course

Architects: Jerry Pate/Bob Cupp Holes: 18

Old Course

Architect: Wilfred Reid Holes: 18

INTERLOCHEN GC

10586 US 31 S Interlochen, MI 49643

Pro Shop: (231) 275-7311

Facebook: @InterlochenGolf

Type: Public Region: Northwest

Founded: 1965

Architect: Hubert Morris Holes: 18

THE INTIMIDATOR

Reed City (231) 832-5616

INVERNESS CC

13893 N. Territorial Rd. Chelsea, MI 48118

Pro Shop: (734) 475-8746

Web: inverness-mi.com

Facebook: Inverness Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast Founded: 1926

Architect: Dan Denton Holes: 9

IRISH HILLS GC

Onsted (517) 467-2997

IRON HORSE GC AT DOUBLE R RANCH

4424 Whites Bridge Rd Belding, MI 48809

Club: (877) 794-0520

Web: doublerranch.com/doublerranchgolf-course Type: Public

Region: West Central

Founded: 1959 Holes: 9

IRON RIVER CC

Iron River (906) 265-3161

IRONWOOD GC

6902 E Highland Rd. Howell, MI 48843

Pro Shop: (517) 546-3211

Web: golfironwood.com

Facebook: @IronwoodGolfClub. HowellMI

Founded: 1990 Holes: 18

IRONWOOD GC

Byron Center (616) 538-4000

IRONWOOD LINKS GC Mason (517) 676-3116

ISLAND HILLS GC

23510 Island Hills Dr. Centreville, MI 49032

Pro Shop: (269) 467-7261

Web: islandhillsgolf.com

Facebook: Island Hills Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southwest Founded: 1999

Architect: Raymond Hearn Golf

Designs Holes: 18

IYOPAWA ISLAND GC

Coldwater (517) 238-2216

JJAWOR’S GRATIOT GOLF CENTER

Roseville (586) 293-9836

THE JEWEL

286 Grand Ave. Mackinaw Island, MI 49758

Club: (906) 847-3331

Web: grandhotel.com

Facebook: The Jewel Golf

Course

Type: Public Region: Upper Peninsula

Architects: Tom Bendelow and Jerry Matthews

Founded: 1901 Holes: 18

KKALAMAZOO CC

1609 Whites Rd. Kalamazoo, MI 49008

Club: (269) 345-6149

Pro Shop: (269) 344-0752

Web: kalamazoocountryclub.com

Facebook: Kalamazoo Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southwest Founded: 1909

Architect: Tom Bendelow

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified Caddies Available

KATKE GC

1003 Perry Ave.

Big Rapids, MI 49307

Pro Shop: (231) 591-3765

Web: ferris.edu

Facebook: Katke Golf Course, Ferris State University

Instagram: @KatkeGolf

Architect: Frank Beard

Holes: 21

Practice Range and Golf Learning Center

KAUFMAN GC

4807 Clyde Park SW Wyoming, MI 48509

Pro Shop: (616) 538-5050

Web: kentcountyparks.org/ kaufman

Facebook: Kaufman Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architect: Bruce Matthews

Holes: 18

KEARSLEY LAKE GC

4266 E. Pierson Rd. Flint, MI 48506

Club: (810) 736-0930

Web: flintcitygolfllc.com

Facebook: Kearsley Lake Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: East Central Holes: 18

KENSINGTON METROPARK GC

13760 High Ridge Dr. Brighton, MI 48114

Pro Shop: (810) 227-8916

Web: golf.metroparks.com

Facebook: Kensington Metropark

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1961

Architect: Hugh Lamley

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

KENT CC

1600 College Ave. NE Grand Rapids, MI 49505

Club: (616) 363-6811

Pro Shop: (616) 363-6112

Web: kentcountryclub.com

Type: Private Region: West Central Founded: 1896

Architect: Donald Ross

Holes: 18

Caddies Available

KEWEENAW MOUNTAIN

LODGE & GOLF COURSE

Copper Harbor (906) 289-4403

KINGSLEY CLUB

600 Niblick Tr. Kingsley, MI 49649

Pro Shop: (231) 263-3000

Web: kingsleyclub.com

Type: Private Region: Northwest

Architect: Mike DeVries

Holes: 18

Caddies Available

KLINGER LAKE CC

21050 W. US 12 Sturgis, MI 49091

Club: (269) 651-7453

Pro Shop: (269) 651-4653

Type: Private Holes: 18

Region: Southwest

KNOLL VIEW GC

AuGres (989) 876-4653

KNOLLWOOD CC

5050 W. Maple Rd.

West Bloomfield, MI 48322

Club: (248) 855-1800

Pro Shop: (248) 855-0825

Web: knollwoodcountryclub.net

Facebook: Knollwood

Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Founded: 1925

Architect: Arthur Ham / George

McLean

Holes: 18

LL’ANSE GC

Hancock (906) 524-6600

LAC VIEUX DESERT GC

Watersmeet (906) 358-0303

LAKE CORA HILLS GC

56640 Country Rd. 671

Paw Paw, MI 49079

Pro Shop: (269) 657-4074

Web: LakeCoraGolf.com

Facebook: Lake Cora Hills Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southwest Holes: 18

LAKE DOSTER GC

116 Country Club Blvd. Plainwell, MI 49080

Pro Shop: (269) 685-5308

Web: lakedostergolf.com

Facebook: Lake Doster Golf Club

Type: Semi-private

Architect: Charlie Scott

Holes: 18

LAKE ERIE METROPARK GC

14786 Lee Rd. Brownstown, MI 48173

Pro Shop: (734) 379-0048

Web: golf.metroparks.com

Facebook: Lake Erie Metropark

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architect: Sue Nyquist

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

LAKE FOREST GC

3110 W. Ellsworth

Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Pro Shop: (734) 994-8580 ext. 1

Web: lakeforestgc.com

Facebook: facebook.com/lakeforestannarbor

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Founded: 1999

Architect: Golf Services Group

LAKE LEANN GC

Somerset Center (517) 688-3445

LAKE MICHIGAN HILLS GC

2520 Kerlikowske Rd. Benton Harbor, MI 49022

Pro Shop: (269) 849-2722

Web: lakemichiganhills.com

Facebook: Lake Michigan Hills Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southwest Holes: 18

LAKE MONTEREY GC AT SANDY PINES RESORT Dorr (616) 896-8118

LAKE O’ THE HILLS GC 2101 Lac du Mont Haslett, MI 48840

Club: (517) 339-9445

Web: lakeothehills.com

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 9

LAKE ST. CLAIR METROPARK GC Harrison Twp. (586) 463-4581

LAKELAND HILLS GC Jackson (517) 764-5292

LAKELANDS G&CC

8760 Chilson Rd. Brighton, MI 48116

Club: (810) 231-3000

Pro Shop: (810) 231-3010

Web: lakelandsgolf.com

Facebook: Lakelands Golf and Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast Founded: 1922 Holes: 18

LAKES OF TAYLOR GC

25505 Northline Rd. Taylor, MI 48180

Pro Shop: (734) 287-2100

Web: taylorgolf.com

Facebook: Lakes of Taylor Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1995

Architect: Arthur Hills Holes: 18

LAKES OF THE NORTH GC

8151 Pineview Dr. Mancelona, MI 49659

Pro Shop: (231) 585-6800

Web: lakesofthenorthgc.com

Type: Public Region: Northwest Holes: 18

LAKESIDE GC

Gladwin (989) 426-1664

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Type: University/Public Region: West Central

Web: klingerlakecc.com

Facebook: Klinger Lake Country Club

Holes: 18

Walking Permitted

LAKESIDE LINKS GC

5369 W. Chauvez Rd.

Ludington, MI 49431

Pro Shop: (231) 843-3660

Web: lakesidelinks.com

Facebook: Lakeside Links Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Northwest

Founded: 1987 Holes: 27

LAKEVIEW HILLS GOLF RESORT

6560 E. Peck Rd.

Lexington, MI 48450

Club: (810) 359-7333

Pro Shop: (810) 359-8901

Web: lakeviewhills.com

Facebook: Lakeview Hills Golf

Resort

Type: Semi-private

Region: East Central Holes: 36

LAKEWOOD ON THE GREEN

128 Lakewood Dr.

Cadillac, MI 49601

Club: (231) 468-3344

Web: lakewoodonthegreen.com

Facebook: Lakewood on the Green

Instagram: @lakewoodonthegreen

Type: Public

Region: Northwest

Architects: Norm and Pete Smith Holes: 18

LAKEWOOD SHORES RESORT

Oscoda (989) 739-2073

LAPEER CC

3786 Hunt Rd. Lapeer, MI 48446

Club: (810) 664-2442

Web: lapeergolf.com

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1927 Holes: 18

LEANING TREE GC

Wales (810) 367-3528

LEDGE MEADOWS GC

1801 E. Grand Ledge Hwy. Grand Ledge, MI 48837

Pro Shop: (517) 627-7492

Web: ledgemeadowsgolfcourse. com

Facebook: Ledge Meadows Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southwest Holes: 18

THE LEGACY

Ottawa Lake (734) 854-1101

THE LEGACY AT HASTINGS

1550 N. Broadway

Hastings, MI 49058

Pro Shop: (269) 945-2756

Web: legacyathastings.com

Facebook: The Legacy at Hastings

Type: Semi-Private Region: Southwest

Founded: 1921

Architect: Jack Deray/Bruce Matthews (Redesign) Holes: 18

LELAND CC

184 N. Fifth St. Leland, MI 49654

Club: (231) 256-9721

Web: lelandcc.com

Type: Private Region: Northwest Founded: 1914

Architects: Charles Wilder/C.D. Wagstaff (Bruce Hepner redesign) Holes : 18

LENAWEE CC Adrian (517) 265-8227

LES CHENEAUX GC

1407 W. Club Rd.

Cedarville, MI 49719

Club: (906) 484-3606

Web: lescheneauxgolfclub.org

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula Founded: 1898 Holes: 9

LESLIE PARK GC

2120 Traver Rd.

Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Pro Shop: (734) 794-6245

Web: a2golf.org

Facebook: Ann Arbor Parks &

Recreation

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1967

Architects: E. Lawrence Packard/ Arthur Hills

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified Audubon International Certified

LITCHFIELD GREENS GC Litchfield (517) 542-3121

LINCOLN GC

4907 Whitehall Rd. Muskegon, MI 49445

Club: (231) 766-3636 ext. 2

Pro Shop: (231) 766-3636 ext. 1

Web: lincolngolfcourse.com

Facebook: Lincoln Golf Club

Type: Semi-private Region: West Central

Founded: 1927 Holes: 18

LINCOLN HILLS

GOLF CLUB

1527 N. Lakeshore Dr. Ludington, MI 49431

Pro Shop: (231) 843-4666

Web: lincolnhillsgc.com

Facebook: Lincoln Hills Golf Club

Type: Semi-private Region: Northwest Holes: 18

LINCOLN HILLS

GOLF COURSE

2666 W. 14 Mile Rd. Birmingham, MI 48009

Pro Shop: (248) 530-1670

Web: golfbirmingham.org

Facebook: City Government of Birmingham, MI

Type: Semi-private Region: Southeast

Founded: 1964 Holes: 9

LINKS AT BOWEN LAKE

12990 Bradshaw Dr. Gowen, MI 49326

Mailing: P.O. Box 99 Gowen, MI 49326

Pro Shop: (616) 984-9916

Web: linksatbowenlake.com

Facebook: The Links at Bowen Lake

Type: Public Region: West Central Founded: 1998

Architect: William Newcomb Holes: 18 Carts Mandatory

THE LINKS AT CRYSTAL LAKE

800 Golf Dr. Pontiac, MI 48341

Phone: (248) 758-3966

Web: tlacl.com

Facebook: The Links at Crystal Lake

Region: Southeast Holes: 18

THE LINKS AT GATEWAY

33290 Gateway Dr. Romulus, MI 48174

Pro Shop: (734) 721-4100

Web: linksatgateway.com

Facebook: Links at Gateway Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 2000

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 18

THE LINKS AT HUNTERS RIDGE GC

8101 Byron Rd. Howell, MI 48855

Pro Shop: (517) 545-4653

Web: golfhuntersridge.com

Facebook: @golfhuntersridge

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1995 Holes: 18

LINKS OF LAKE ERIE GOLF & BANQUET

Monroe (734) 384-1177

LINKS AT ROLLING MEADOWS Holland (616) 395-5926

LINKS OF EDMORE

1549 Howard City-Edmore Rd. Edmore, MI 48829

Club: (989) 427-3241

Facebook: Links of Edmore

Type: Public

Region: West Central Holes: 9

LINKS OF NOVI

50395 10 Mile Rd. Novi, MI 48374

Pro Shop: (248) 380-9595

Web: linksofnovi.com

Facebook: Links of Novi

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 27

LOCHENHEATH GC

7951 Turnberry Circle

Williamsburg, MI 49690

Pro Shop: (231) 938-9800

Web: lochenheath.com

Facebook: LochenHeath Golf Club

Type: Private Region: Northwest Holes: 18

Lincoln Hills Golf Course

PHOTO COURTESY OF

LOCHMOOR CLUB

1018 Sunningdale

Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236

Club: (313) 886-1010

Pro Shop: (313) 884-3820

Web: lochmoorclub.com

Facebook: Lochmoor Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Founded: 1917

Architects: John S. Sweeney/ Walter Travis Holes: 18

MTESP Certified Caddies Available

LOGGERS TRACE AT SPRINGPORT HILLS

5184 E. Springport Rd. Harrisville, MI 48740

Pro Shop: (989) 724-5611

Web: loggerstrace.net

Facebook: Loggers Trace/ Springport Hills Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: Northeast

Founded: 1972

Springport Hills GC Holes: 9

Loggers Trace Holes: 18

LOON GOLF RESORT

Gaylord (989) 732-4454

LOST LAKE

WOODS CLUB

4243 Lost Lake Tr. Lincoln, MI 48742

Club: (989) 736-8197

Pro Shop: (989) 736-8412

Web: lostlakewoodsclub.com

Facebook: Lost Lake Woods Club

Type: Private Region: Northeast

Architects: Killian/Nugent Holes: 18

Founded: 1926

THE LYNX GC

900 Lincoln Rd. Otsego, MI 49078

Pro Shop: (269) 694-5969

Web: lynxgc.com

Facebook: LynxGC

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Architects: Charles & Jon Scott

Founded: 1997 Holes: 18

LYON OAKS GC

52251 Pontiac Tr. Wixom, MI 48393

Pro Shop: (248) 437-1488

Web: OaklandCountyParks.com

Facebook: Lyon Oaks Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: Arthur Hills Holes: 18

Founded: 2002

MTESP Certified

MMACATAWA GC

4600 Macatawa Legends Blvd.

Holland, MI 49424

Pro Shop: (616) 212-2600

Web: macatawagc.com

Facebook: @MacatawaGolfClub

Type: Private Region: West Central

Architect: Ray Hearn Design

Founded: 2005

Holes: 18

THE MACKINAW CLUB

Carp Lake (231) 537-4955

MACK MAYFIELD

MUNICIPAL GC

Westland (734) 721-6660

THE MAJESTIC GC

9600 Crouse Rd. Hartland, MI 48353

Pro Shop: (810) 632-5235

Web: majesticgolf.com

Facebook: The Majestic @ Lake Walden Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1994

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 27

MALLARD GC

East Jordan (231) 536-3636

MANISTEE G&CC

500 Cherry Rd. P.O. Box 487

Manistee, MI 49660

Pro Shop: (231) 723-2509

Web: manisteegolfandcc.com

Facebook: Manistee Golf & Country Club

Type: Semi-private Region: Northwest Founded: 1901

Architects: Thomas Bendelow/ H.B. Matthews

Holes: 18

MANISTEE NATIONAL GOLF & RESORT

4797 US-31 S. Manistee, MI 49660

Pro Shop: (231) 398-0123

Web: manisteenational.com

Facebook: Manistee National Golf and Resort

Type: Public/Resort Region: Northwest

The Retreat

Architect: Gary Pulsipher Holes: 18

The Revenge

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 18

MANITOU PASSAGE GC

4600 S. Club Dr. Cedar, MI 49621

Pro Shop: (231) 228-6000

Web: manitoupassagegolfclub.com

Facebook: Manitou Passage

Golf Club

Instagram: Manitou Passage

Golf Club

Region: Northwest

Type: Public

Architect: Arnold Palmer Design Co. Holes: 18

MAPLE BROOK GC

681 Lansing St. Charlotte, MI 48813

Pro Shop: (517) 543-1570

Facebook: Maple Brook Golf Club

Region: Southwest

Type: Public Holes: 9

MAPLE CREEK GC

Shepherd (989) 828-6315 ext. 2

MAPLE GROVE GC

Lambertville (734) 854-6777

MAPLE HILL GC

Wyoming (616) 538-0290

MAPLE HILL LAKESHORE GOLF

SHOP & DRIVING RANGE

Fruitport (231) 865-3379

MAPLE HILLS GC

Augusta (616) 731-4430

MAPLE LANE GC

33203 Maple Lane Dr. Sterling Heights, MI 48312

Pro Shop: (586) 795-4000 ext. 2

Web: maplelanegolf.com

Facebook: Maple Lane Golf Club

Type: Public Holes: 54

Region: Southeast

West Course

Architects: Clarence Wolfrom/ Carl P. Roehl

Founded: 1926 Holes: 18

East Course

Architects: Clarence Wolfrom/ Carl P. Roehl

Founded: 1926 Holes: 18

North Course

Architects: Clarence Wolfrom/ Carl P. Roehl

Founded: 1926 Holes: 18

MAPLE LEAF GC

158 N. Mackinaw

Linwood, MI 48634

Pro Shop: (989) 697-3531

Web: golfmapleleaf.com

Facebook: Maple Leaf Golf

Course – MI

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Architect: Bill Childs

Founded: 1963 Holes: 27

MAPLE RIVER RESORT

Brutus (231) 529-6574

MARQUETTE TRAILS GC

6404 W. 76th St.

Baldwin, MI 49304

Club: (231) 898-2450

Web: marquettetrailsgc.com

Facebook: Marquette Trails Golf

Course

Type: Public Holes: 18

Founded: 1964

MARSHALL CC

151 Lyon Lake Rd. Marshall, MI 49068

Pro Shop: (269) 781-1182

Web: marshallcountryclub.com

Facebook: Marshall Country Club

Type: Semi-Private Region: Southwest Holes: 18

MARYSVILLE GC

2080 River Rd. Marysville, MI 48040

Pro Shop: (810) 364-4653

Web: cityofmarysvillemi.com

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Architect: Lions Club/Don Childs Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

MARYWOOD GC

21310 North Ave. Battle Creek, MI 49017

Club: (269) 968-1168

Web: marywoodgolf.com

Facebook: Marywood Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Architect: Maurice McCarthy

Founded: 1926 Holes: 18

MEADOWBROOK CC

40941 W. 8 Mile Rd. Northville, MI 48167

Club: (248) 349-3600

Pro Shop: (248) 349-3606

Web: meadowbrookcountryclub.com

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: Willie Park Jr. (restoration by Andy Staples, 2016)

Founded: 1916 Holes: 18

Caddies Available

THE MEADOWS GC AT GVSU

4645 W. Campus Dr. Allendale, MI 49401

Pro Shop: (616) 331-1004

Web: gvsu.edu/meadows

Type: University/Public Region: West Central Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

THE MEDALIST GC

15701 N. Drive North Marshall, MI 49068

Pro Shop: (269) 789-4653

Web: themedalist.com

Facebook: The Medalist Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Founded: 1996

Architect: William Newcomb Holes: 18

MERIDIAN SUN GC

1018 Haslett Rd.

Haslett, MI 48840

Pro Shop: (517) 339-8281

Web: meridiansungc.com

Facebook: Meridian Sun

Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Founded: 1964 Holes: 18

METAMORA G&CC

1600 Club Dr.

Metamora, MI 48455

Club: (248) 969-2120

Web: metamoragolf.com

Facebook: Metamora Golf and Country Club

Type: Semi-private Region: East Central

Founded: 1990

Architect: Don Childs & Associates Holes: 18

MICHAYWE PINES GC

1535 Opal Lake Rd. Gaylord, MI 49735

Pro Shop: (989) 939-8911

Web: michaywepines.com

Facebook: Michaywe

Type: Public Region: Northeast

Architect: Don Childs Holes: 18

Walking Permitted Mon.-Thur. Only

MICHIGAN MEADOWS GC

Casco (586) 727-7029

MICHIGAN TECH/ PORTAGE LAKE GC

46789 N. Hwy. US-41

Houghton, MI 49931

Pro Shop: (906) 487-2641

Web: mtu.edu/golfcourse

Facebook: Michigan

Technological University

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula

Founded: 1902 Holes: 18

MIDLAND CC

1120 W. St. Andrews

Midland, MI 48641

Club: (989) 832-8866

Golf Shop: (989) 832-3074

Web: midlandcc.net

Facebook: Midland Country Club

Type: Private

Region: East Central

Architects: Jerry Matthews (original design)/Craig Schreiner (2008)

Founded: 1928 Holes: 18

MILES

OF GOLF/ KENDALL ACADEMY

3113 Carpenter Rd.

Ypsilanti, MI 48197

Business: (734) 973-9004

Web: milesofgolf.com

Facebook: Miles of Golf

Type: Golf Shop/ Driving

Range/ Teaching Academy

Region: Southeast

MILHAM PARK GC

4200 Lovers Lane

Kalamazoo, MI 49001

Pro Shop: (269) 344-7639

Web: kmgagolf.com

Facebook: KMGA – Milham

Park, Eastern Hills & Red Arrow

Golf Courses

Type: Public

Region: Southwest

Architect: Bob Millar

Founded: 1931

Holes: 18

MILL RACE GC

Jonesville (517) 849-9439

THE MINES GC

330 Covell Ave. SW

Grand Rapids, MI 49534

Pro Shop: (616) 791-7544

Web: minesgc.com

Facebook: The Mines Golf Course

Instagram: @minesgolf

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architect: Mike DeVries

Founded: 2005

Holes: 18

MISSAUKEE GC

5300 S. Morey Rd.

Lake City, MI 49651

Pro Shop: (231) 839-2901

Web: missaukeegolfclub.com

Type: Public

Region: Northwest

Founded: 1970

Holes: 18

MISTWOOD GC

7568 Ole White Dr.

Lake Ann, MI 49650

Pro Shop: (231) 275-5500

Web: lakeanngolf.com

Facebook: Mistwood Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: Northwest

Architects: Jerry Matthews/ Ray Hearn

Holes: 27

MONROE G&CC

611 Cole Rd.

Monroe, MI 48162

Club: (734) 241-5190

Pro Shop: (734) 241-6531

Web: Monroe.golf

Type: Semi-Private

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1919

Architect: Donald Ross

Holes: 18

THE MOORS GC

7877 Moorsbridge Rd. Portage, MI 49002

Pro Shop: (269) 323-8873

Web: moorsgolf.com

Facebook: The Moors Golf Club

Type: Private Region: Southwest

Architect: Arthur Hills Holes: 18

MOOSE RIDGE GC

11801 Doane Rd.

South Lyon, MI 48178

Pro Shop: (248) 446-9030

Web: mooseridgegolfcourse. com

Facebook: Moose Ridge Golf Course & Grille

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architect: Ray Hearn Holes: 18

MORRISON LAKE CC

Saranac (616) 642-9528

MOSS RIDGE GC & BANQUET CENTER

13545 Apple Ave.

Ravena, MI 49451

Pro Shop: (231) 853-5665

Web: mossridge.com

Type: Public

Region: West Central Founded: 1997 Holes:18

MOUNT PLEASANT CC

3686 E. River Rd.

Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858

Club: (989) 772-1591

Web: mtpleasantcc.com

Facebook: Mt. Pleasant Country Club

Type: Private Region: West Central Founded: 1921

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 18

MOUNTAIN FLOWERS GC (AT THE HOMESTEAD)

Glen Arbor (231) 334-5505

MUELLER’S VALLEY VIEW FARM GC

Saginaw (989) 781-1248

MULBERRY HILLS GC

Oxford (248) 628-2808

Pro Shop: (231) 755-1841

Web: muskegoncc.com

Facebook: Muskegon Country Club

Type: Private Region: West Central

Architect: Donald Ross Holes: 18

MYSTIC CREEK GOLF & BANQUET CENTER

One Champions Circle

Milford, MI 48380

Pro Shop: (248) 684-3333

Web: mysticcreekgolfclub.com

Facebook: Mystic Creek Golf Club & Banquet Center

Type: Public

Region: Southeast Holes: 27

THE MYTH GOLF & BANQUET CENTER

850 Stoney Creek Rd. Oakland, MI 48363

Pro Shop: (248) 693-7170

Web: golfthemyth.com

Facebook: Myth Golf and Banquets

Instagram: @golfmyth

Type: Public

Region: Southeast Holes: 18 and Par 3 Course

NNAHMA RESORTS GC

Rapid River (906) 644-2648

NEWBERRY CC

5073 M-123

Newberry, MI 49868

Pro Shop: (906) 293-8422

Web: newberrycountryclub.com

MULLENHURST GC

9810 Mullen Rd. Delton, MI 49046

Pro Shop: (269) 623-8383

Web: mullenhurstgolfcourse.com

Type: Public

Facebook: Mullenhurst Golf Course

Region: Southwest Founded: 1974

Architect: Richard Enyart

Holes: 18

MULLETT LAKE CC

7475 Mullett Lake Rd. Mullett Lake, MI 49761 Club: (231) 627-5971

Type: Semi-Private Web: mullettlakecc.com

Facebook: Mullett Lake Country Club

Region: Northeast Founded: 1921 Holes: 9

MUNOSCONG GC

Pickford (906) 647-9812

MUSKEGON CC

2801 Lakeshore Dr. Muskegon, MI 49441 Club: (231) 755-3737

Facebook: Newberry Country Club

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula

Architect: Mike Husby

Founded: 1997 Holes: 18

THE NIGHTMARE

5745 Old 76 (M-55) West Branch, MI 48661

Pro Shop: (989) 345-1500

Web: thenightmare.golf

Facebook: The Dream The Nightmare

Type: Public

Region: Northeast

Architect: John J. Gorney

Founded: 2003 Holes: 18

NORM’S GOLF CENTER

Portage (269) 321-6676

NORTH KENT GC

11029 Stout Ave.

Rockford, MI 49341

Pro Shop: (616) 866-2659

Web: northkentgolf.com

Facebook: North Kent Golf Course

Type: Public

Mullett Lake CC

Region: West Central

Architect: Warner Bowen

Founded: 1973 Holes: 18

NORTH SHORE GC

Menominee (906) 863-3026

NORTH STAR GC

Ithaca (989) 875-3841

NORTHERN MICHIGAN

UNIVERSITY GC

125 Chocolay Downs Golf Dr. Marquette, MI 49855

Pro Shop: (906) 227-3111

Web: nmu.edu/golfcourse

Facebook: NMU Golf Course

Region: Upper Peninsula

Type: University/Public

Founded: 1993 Holes: 18

NORTHPORT CREEK GC

355 8th St.

Northport, MI 49670

Pro Shop: (231) 386-1088

Web: northportcreek.com

Facebook: Northport Creek Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: Northwest

Founded: 2014

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 9

NORTHPORT POINT GC

209 N Northcott Dr. Northport, MI 49670

Club: (231) 386-5871

Web: nppoint.com

Type: Private Region: Northwest

Architect: Tom Bendelow

Renovation: Bruce Hepner Holes: 9

NORTHVILLE HILLS GC

15565 Bay Hill Dr. Northville, MI 48168

Pro Shop: (734) 667-4653

Web: northvillehillsgolfclub. com

Facebook: Northville Hills Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Founded: 2000

Architect: Arnold Palmer Holes: 18

NORTHWOOD FAMILY TRADITIONS GC

2888 S. Comstock Ave. Fremont, MI 49412

Club: (231) 924-3074

Facebook: Northwood Family Traditions Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: West Central Holes: 18

OOAK CREST GC

N1475 US 8 Norway, MI 49870

Club: (906) 563-5891

Web: oakcrestgolf.com

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula Founded: 1926 Holes: 18

OAK LANE GC

800 N. Main

Webberville, MI 48892

Club: (517) 521-3900

Web: oaklanegolf.com

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

OAK POINTE CC

4500 Club Dr. Brighton, MI 48116

Club: (810) 229-4554

Pro Shop: (810) 227-9194

Web: oak-pointe.com

Facebook: Oak Pointe Golf and Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Honors Course

Architect: Arthur Hills Holes: 18

Championship Course

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 18

Walking Permitted (at club’s discretion)

OAK RIDGE GC

513 W. Pontaluna Rd.

Muskegon, MI 49444

Pro Shop: (231) 798-3660

Web: golfoakridgegc.com

Facebook: Oak Ridge Golf Club Muskegon

Type: Public Region: West Central Holes: 18

Founded: 1925

OAK RIDGE/MARSH

OAKS GC

35035 26 Mile Rd. Lenox, MI 48048

Pro Shop: (586) 749-5151

Web: oakridgegolf.com

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 36

OAKHURST G&CC

7000 Oakhurst Ln. Clarkston, MI 48348

Club: (248) 391-3300

Pro Shop: (248) 391-3900

Web: oakhurstgolf.com

Facebook: Oakhurst Golf & Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: Arthur Hills

Holes: 18

Founded: 1998

OAKLAND HILLS CC

3951 W. Maple Rd.

Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301

Club: (248) 644-2500

Pro Shop: (248) 433-0671

Web: oaklandhillscc.com

Type: Private Region: Southeast

North Course

Architects: Donald Ross/ Robert Trent Jones

Holes : 18

Caddies Available

South Course

Architects: Gil Hanse

Holes: 18

Caddies Available

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY GOLF & LEARNING CENTER

492 Golf View Lane

Rochester, MI 48309

Pro Shop: (248) 364-6300

Web: ohlcat.edu/ougolf.com

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Founded: 1979

MTESP Certified

R & S Sharf Course Holes: 18

Katke Cousins GC Holes: 18

THE OAKS AT KINCHELOE Kincheloe (906) 495-5706

THE OASIS GOLF CENTER

Plymouth (734) 420-4653

OCEANA GC

3333 W. Weaver Rd. Shelby, MI 49455

Pro Shop: (231) 861-4211

Web: oceanagolfclub.com

Facebook: @ OceanaGolfClubPage

Instagram: oceanagolfclub

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Founded: 1962

Holes: 18

OLD CHANNEL TRAIL GC

8325 N Old Channel Trail

Montague, MI 49437

Pro Shop: (231) 894-5076

Web: golfoct.com

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architects: Robert Bruce Harris/Bruce Matthews/ Jerry Matthews Holes: 27

OLD TOWN GOLF & SPORTLAND

Monroe (734) 242-4476

OLDE MILL GC

6101 West XY Ave.

Schoolcraft, MI 49087

Club: (269) 679-5625

Web: oldemillgolf.com

Facebook:OldeMillGolfCourse

Type: Public Region: Southwest Holes: 18

Founded: 1958

Architect: Gil Stiver

ON THE DUNES SPORTS Commerce Twp. (248) 313-9713

ONTONAGON GC

19906 S. Firesteel Rd. Ontonagon, MI 49953

Club: (906) 884-4130

Web: ontonagongolfclub.com

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula Holes: 9

ORCHARD HILLS CC

2841 Niles-Buchanan Rd. Buchanan, MI 49107

Club: (269) 695-5991

Pro Shop: (269) 695-5722

Web: orchardhillscc.com

Facebook: Orchard Hills

Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southwest Holes: 18

ORCHARD HILLS GC Shelbyville (269) 672-7096

ORCHARD LAKE CC

5000 West Shore Dr. Orchard Lake, MI 48324

Club: (248) 682-0100

Pro Shop: (248) 682-2500

Web: orchardlakecountryclub.com

Facebook: Orchard Lake Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architects: Colt/Alison Holes: 18

Caddies Available

THE ORCHARDS GC

62900 Campground Rd. Washington, MI 48094

Pro Shop: (586) 786-7200

Web: orchards.com

Facebook: The Orchards Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1993

Architect: Robert Trent Jones Jr. Holes: 18

OTSEGO RESORT

696 M-32 East Gaylord, MI 49735

Club: (800) 752-5510

Pro Shop: (989) 732-5181

Web: otsegoclub.com

Facebook: Otsego Resort

Type: Public Region: Northeast Founded: 1958

The Classic

Architect: William H. Diddel Holes: 18

The Tribute

Architect: Robbins/Koch Holes: 18

OWOSSO CC

4200 N. Chipman Rd. Owosso, MI 48867

Club: (989) 723-1470

Pro Shop: (989) 723-2592

Web: owossocountryclub.com

Facebook: owossocountryclub

Type: Private Region: East Central Founded: 1923

Architect: Tom Bendelow Holes: 18

OXFORD HILLS GC

300 E. Drahner

Oxford, MI 48371

Pro Shop: (248) 628-2518

Web: oxfordhillsgolf.com

Facebook: Oxford Hills

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architect: John Hubbard Holes: 18

PPAINT CREEK CC

2375 Stanton Rd. Lake Orion, MI 48362

Club: (248) 693-4695

Pro Shop: (248) 693-9292

Web: paintcreekgolf.com

Facebook: Paint Creek Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: Don Childs Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

THE PATRIOT GC Grayling (989) 348-4343

PAW PAW LAKE GC Watervliet (269) 463-3831

PEBBLEWOOD CC

9794 Jericho Rd. Bridgman, MI 49106 Club: (269) 465-5611

Type: Public Web: golfpebblewood.com

Region: Southwest Holes: 18

PETOSKEY-BAY

VIEW CC

2328 Country Club Rd. Petoskey, MI 40770

Club: (231) 347-2402

Pro Shop: (231) 347-3394

Type: Private

Web: pbvcc.com

Facebook: @PBVCC

Region: Northwest Holes: 18

Founded: 1915

PHEASANT GC

Zeeland (616) 875-4653

PHEASANT RUN GC

46500 Summit Pkwy.

Canton, MI 48188

Pro Shop: (734) 397-6460

Web: golfprgc.org

Facebook: Pheasant Run Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1995

Architect: Arthur Hills

Holes: 27

PICTURED ROCKS GC

Munising (906) 387-3970

PIERCE LAKE GC

1175 S. Main St.

Chelsea, MI 48118

Pro Shop: (734) 475-5858

Web: piercelakegolf.com

Facebook: Pierce Lake Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architect: Harry Bower

Holes: 18

Founded: 1995

PIGEON CREEK GC

10195 120th Ave.

West Olive, MI 49460

Pro Shop: (616) 875-4300

Web: golfpigeoncreek.com

Facebook: Pigeon Creek Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Holes: 18

Founded: 2000

PILGRIM’S RUN GC

11401 Newcosta Ave.

Pierson, MI 49339

Pro Shop: (888) 533-7742

Web: pilgrimsrun.com

Facebook: Pilgrim’s Run Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architects: Kris Shumaker/Mike

DeVries

Holes: 18

Founded: 1998

PIN HIGH GC

Lawton (269) 624-4653

PINE GROVE CC

1520 W. Hughitt

Iron Mountain, MI 49801

Web: pinegrovecc.org

Club: (906) 774-2994

Pro Shop: (906) 774-3493

Type: Semi-private

Founded: 1902

Architect: Lawrence Packard Holes: 18

PINE HILLS GC

Laingsburg (517) 651-9700

PINE HOLLOW GC

Jackson (517) 764-4200

PINE KNOB GC

5580 Waldon Rd. Clarkston, MI 48348

Club: (248) 625-0700

Pro Shop: (248) 625-4430

Web: pineknobmansion.com/golf/ Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 27 Founded: 1970

PINE LAKE CC

3300 Pine Lake Rd. Orchard Lake, MI 48324

Club: (248) 682-1300

Pro Shop: (248) 682-2121

Web: pinelakecc.com

Type: Private Region: Southeast Founded: 1902

Architect: Willie Park Jr. Holes: 18

Caddies Available

PINE RIVER CC

1400 W. Superior Alma, MI 48801

Club: (989) 463-4610

Web: pinerivercc.net

Facebook: Pine River Country Club

Type: Private Region: West Central Founded: 1926 Holes: 18

PINE RIVER GC

Standish (989) 846-6819

PINE SHORES GC

515 Fred W Moore Hwy St. Clair, MI 48079

Club: (810) 329-4294

Facebook: Pines Shores Golf

Course

Type: Public Region: East Central

Architect: Fred Hunter Founded: 1930 Holes: 9

PINE TRACE GC

3600 Pine Trace Blvd. Rochester Hills, MI 48309

Pro Shop: (248) 852-7100

Web: pinetrace.com

Facebook: Pine Trace Golf

Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1989

Architect: Arthur Hills Holes: 18

PINE VIEW GC

52065 Pulver Rd. Three Rivers, MI 49093 Club: (269) 279-5131

Web: pineviewgolf.com

Type: Public Region: Southwest Holes: 36

Founded: 1965

PINE VIEW GC

5820 Stony Creek Rd. Ypsilanti, MI 48197

Pro Shop: (734) 481-0500

Web: pineviewgc.com

Facebook: Pine View Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1989

Architect: Harley Hodges Holes: 18

PINECROFT GC

8260 Henry Rd. Benzonia, MI 49616

Pro Shop: (231) 882-9100

Web: pinecroftgolf.com

Facebook: Pinecroft Golf

Type: Public Region: Northwest Founded: 1992

Architects: L. Stone/J. Cole/A. Norman/C. Carlson Holes: 18

THE PINES GC

Wyoming (616) 538-8380

THE PINES GC AT LAKE ISABELLA

1022 Clubhouse Dr. Lake Isabella, MI 48893

Club: (800) 741-3435

Pro Shop: (989) 644-2300

Web: thepinesgolfcourse.com

Facebook: The Pines Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: West Central Architect: Bruce Matthews Holes: 18

PINE VIEW HIGHLANDS GC

4671 W. Houghton Lake Dr. Houghton Lake, MI 48629

Pro Shop: (989) 366-7726

Web: pineviewhighlands.com

Facebook: Pineview Highlands Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula Holes: 18

PIPESTONE CREEK GC

6768 Naomi Rd. Eau Claire, MI 49111

Pro Shop: (269) 944-1611

Facebook: @pipestonecreekgc

Type: Public Region: Southwest Holes: 18

Pheasant Run GC

Pinecroft GC

PLEASANT HILLS GC

Mt. Pleasant (989) 772-0487

PLEASANT VIEW GC

Saginaw (989) 791-4768

PLUM BROOK GC

13390 Plumbrook Dr.

Sterling Heights, MI 48312

Pro Shop: (586) 264-9411

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1927

Architects: Michael Beaupre/ William Beaupre Holes: 18

PLUM HOLLOW CC

21631 Lahser Rd.

Southfield, MI 48033

Club: (248) 357-5353

Pro Shop: (248) 353-3553

Web: plumhollowcc.com

Facebook: Plum Hollow Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Founded: 1921

Architect: C. H. Alison and Harry S. Colt Holes: 18

Caddies Available

PLYM PARK GC

Niles (269) 684-7331

THE POHLCAT CHAMPIONSHIP GC

6595 E. Airport Rd.

Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858

Pro Shop: (989) 773-4221

Web: pohlcat.net

Facebook: PohlCat Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architect: Dan Pohl Holes: 18

POINT O’ WOODS G&CC

1516 Roslyn Rd. Benton Harbor, MI 49022

Club: (269) 944-1433

Pro Shop: (269) 944-5851

Web: pointowoods.com

Facebook: Point O’ Woods Golf and Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southwest

Architect: Robert Trent Jones Sr. Holes: 18

Founded: 1957

MTESP Certified Caddies Available

POINTE AUX BARQUES

1846 Bayview Dr.

Port Austin, MI 48467

Club: (989) 738-7585

Pro Shop: (989) 738-7922

Type: Private

Region: East Central

Founded: 1896 Holes: 18

POLO FIELDS G&CC

5200 Polo Fields Dr.

Ann Arbor, MI 48103

Club: (734) 998-1555

Pro Shop: (734) 998-3456

Web: polofieldsccmi.com

Facebook: The Polo Fields Golf & Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: William Newcomb Holes: 18

PONTIAC CC

4335 Elizabeth Lake Rd. Waterford, MI 48328

Pro Shop: (248) 682-6333

Web: pontiaccountryclub.com

Facebook: Pontiac Country Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

PORT HURON ELKS GC

3292 Beach Rd.

Port Huron, Michigan 48060

Pro Shop: (810) 984-1204

Web: phelkslodge343.com/ golfing

Facebook: Port Huron Elks

Lodge 343

Type: Private Region: East Central Holes: 18

PORT HURON GC

4101 Fairway Dr. Fort Gratiot, MI 48059

Club: (810) 385-4447

Pro Shop: (810) 385-3881

Web: phgc.net

Facebook: Port Huron Golf Club

Type: Private Region: East Central

Architect: Captain C. H. Allison

Holes: 18

PORTLAND CC

Portland (517) 647-4521

PRAIRIE CREEK GC & BANQUET CENTER

DeWitt (517) 669-1958

THE PRAIRIES

5303 W. Main

Kalamazoo, MI 49009

Club: (269) 343-3906

Type: Public

Web: prairiesgolf.com

Facebook: The Prairies Golf Club Region: Southwest Holes: 18

PRESTWICK

VILLAGE GC

136 Inverness Highland, MI 48357

Club: (248) 887-1762

Pro Shop: (248) 887-4334

Web: pvgcc.com

Facebook: Prestwick Village Golf Course

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: Ron Garl

QQUAIL RIDGE GC

8375 36th St. E. Ada, MI 49301

Club: (616) 676-2000 ext. 1

Web: quailridgegc.com

Facebook: Quail Ridge Golf

Club Ada & Grand Rapids MI

Type: Public

Region: West Central Founded: 1999

Architect: Ray Hearn Holes: 18

QUARRY RIDGE GC

Ottawa Lake (734) 888-1020

THE QUEST GC

119 Questview Dr. Houghton Lake, MI 48629

Pro Shop: (989) 422-4516

Web: questgolfcourse.com

Facebook: The Quest Golf Club – Houghton Lake

Instagram: @questgolfclub

Type: Public

Region: Northeast

Founded: 1994

Architects: John Sanford Jr./ Ken Green Holes: 18

QUINCY GC

955 Miller Dr. Quincy, MI 49082

Club: (517) 639-4491

Facebook: Quincy Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: South Central Holes: 9

RRACKHAM GC

10100 W. 10 Mile Rd.

Huntington Woods, MI 48070

Pro Shop: (248) 543-4040

Web: rackham.golf

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1923

Architect: Donald Ross Holes: 18

RADRICK FARMS

4875 Geddes Rd.

Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Golf Shop: (734) 998-7040

Web: radrick.umich.edu

Instagram: umichradrick

Type: Semi-private Region: Southeast

Architect: Pete Dye

Founded: 1965

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified Certified Audubon

International Cooperative Sanctuary

RAILSIDE GC

2500 76th St. SW

Byron Center, MI 49315

Club: (616) 878-1140

Pro Shop: (616) 878-0202

Web: railsidegolf.com

Facebook: Railside Golf Club

Type: Private Region: West Central

Architect: Matthews Assn. Holes: 18

RAISIN VALLEY GC

Tecumseh (517) 423-2050

RAMMLER GC

38180 Utica Rd.

Sterling Heights, MI 48312

Pro Shop: (586) 264-4101

Web: rammlergolf.com

Facebook: RammlerGolfClub

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1929

Holes: 18

Rammler Par 3 Course

RATTLE RUN GC

East China (810) 329-2070

RAVENNA CREEKS GC

Ravenna (231) 853-6736

RAVINES GC

3520 Palmer Dr. Saugatuck, MI 49453

Pro Shop: (269) 857-1616

Web: ravinesgolfclub.com

Facebook: Ravines Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Architect: Arnold Palmer Holes: 18

RED ARROW GC

1041 King Hwy. Kalamazoo, Mi 49048

Club: (269) 492-7800

Web: kmgagolf.com/redarrow-golf-course/ Facebook: KMGA–Milham Park, Eastern Hills & Red Arrow Golf Courses

Type: Public Region: Southwest Holes: 9

RED FOX RUN GC

Gwinn (906) 346-7010

RED HAWK GC

350 W. Davison East Tawas, MI 48730

Pro Shop: (989) 362-0800

Web: redhawkgolf.net

Facebook: Red Hawk Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Northeast Holes: 18

RED OAKS GC

29600 John R Rd. Madison Heights, MI 48071

Pro Shop: (248) 541-5030

Web: OaklandCountyParks.com

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 9

RED RUN GC

2036 Rochester Rd.

Royal Oak, MI 48073

Club: (248) 548-7500

Pro Shop: (248) 548-8423

Web: redrungolfclub.com

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Founded: 1914

Architect: Willie Park Jr. Holes: 18

Caddies Available

Walking Permitted (Walking w/out caddie available certain times only)

No pull carts allowed

REDWOOD GC

Roscommon (989) 821-9821

RICHMOND FOREST GC

33300 32 Mile Rd.

Lenox, MI 48050

Club: (586) 727-4742

Web: richmondforestgolf.com

Facebook: Richmond Forest Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architect: Bruce Matthews III

Founded: 1994 Holes: 18

RIDGE GC

Breckenridge (989) 842-1510

RIDGEVIEW GC

Belding (616) 794-1860

RIDGEVIEW GC

10360 W. Main

Kalamazoo, MI 49009

Pro Shop: (269) 375-8821

Web: ridgeviewgolf.com

Facebook: Ridgeview Golf Course

Type: Public Region: West Central Holes: 18

RIPPLING RAPIDS GC

Cheboygan (231) 625-2770

RIVER’S EDGE GC

6373 Werth Rd.

Alpena, MI 49707

Pro Shop: (989) 354-4312

Web: riversedgeofalpena.com

Facebook: River’s Edge Golf

Club

Type: Public

Region: Northeast

Architect: Bruce Matthews Holes: 18

RIVERBANK GC

South Lyon (248) 486-6251

Holes: 18

Founded: 1996

Facebook: Oakland County Parks and Recreation

RIVERSIDE GC & BANQUET CENTER

245 Columbia Ave. E

Battle Creek, MI 49015

Pro Shop: (269) 964-0291

Web: bcriverside.com

Type: Public

Region: Southwest

Founded: 1926

Architects: Bruce & Jeffery

Matthews Holes: 18

RIVERSIDE GC

Menominee (906) 863-4837

RIVERVIEW HIGHLANDS

15015 Sibley Rd.

Riverview, MI 48193

Pro Shop: (734) 479-2266

Web: riverviewhighlands.com

Facebook: Riverview Highlands Golf Course

Instagram: Riverview Highlands

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1973

Architects: William Newcomb/ Arthur Hills Holes: 27

RIVERWOOD RESORT

1313 E. Broomfield Rd.

Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858

Club: (989) 772-5726

Pro Shop: (989) 773-7063

Web: riverwoodresort.com

Facebook: Riverwood/Nine Eight Nine

Type: Resort

Region: West Central

Founded: 1932

Architect: Harley Hodges

Holes: 18

THE ROCK AT DRUMMOND ISLAND

33494 S. Maxton Rd.

Drummond Island, MI 49726

Club: (906) 493-1000

Web: drummondisland.com

Facebook: Drummond Island Resort

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula

Architect: Harry Bowers

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

ROGERS CITY CC

4796 Golf Course Rd.

Rogers City, MI 49779

Club: (989) 734-4909

Web: rogerscitygolfclub.com

Facebook: RogersCityCC

Type: Public

Region: Northeast Holes: 18

Founded: 1971

ROLLING HILLS GC

3274 Davison Rd.

Lapeer, MI 48446

Club: (810) 664-2281

Web: golfrh.com

Instagram: @golf.rh

Region: Southeast Holes: 18

Founded: 1966

ROLLING HILLS GC

6586 Milligan Rd. Cass City, MI 48726

Club: (989) 872-3569

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Founded: 1968

Architect: Grant Hutchinson Holes: 9

ROLLING MEADOWS GC

6484 Sutton Rd. Whitmore Lake, MI 48189

Pro Shop: (734) 662-5144

Web: rmgolfcourse.com

Facebook: Rolling Meadows Golf

Course

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

Founded: 1978

ROUGE PARK GC

11701 Burt Rd. Detroit, MI 48228

Pro Shop: (313) 837-5900

Web: rouge.golf

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

ROYAL OAK GOLF CENTER

3500 Edgar Royal Oak, MI 48073

Pro Shop: (248) 549-4653

Web: royaloakgolfcenter.com

Facebook: Royal Oak Golf Center

Region: Southeast

Type: Driving Range/Miniature Golf/Golf Learning Center

ROYAL OAK GC

3417 Don Soper Dr. Royal Oak, MI 48073

Pro Shop: (248) 554-0019

Web: ci.royal-oak.mi.us

Facebook: Tee Time Grille at Royal Oak Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1958 Holes: 9

MTESP Certified

ROYAL SCOT GC

4722 W. Grand River Ave. Lansing, MI 48906

Pro Shop: (517) 321-6220

Web: royalscot.net

Facebook: Royal Scot Golf & Bowl

Type: Public Region: West Central

Architects: Thingsted/Hearn Holes: 27

RUSTIC GLEN GC

12090 W. Michigan Ave.

Saline, MI 48176

Pro Shop: (734) 429-7679

Web: rusticglen.com

Facebook: Rustic Glen Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

SSAGE RUN GC

W1824 Co. Road 400

Bark River, MI 49807

Club: (906) 466-2941

Web: islandresortandcasino.com

Type: Public Region: Upper Peninsula Holes: 18

SAGINAW CC

4465 Gratiot Ave.

Saginaw, MI 48638

Club: (989) 793-2860

Pro Shop: (989) 793-3461

Web: saginawcountryclub.com

Facebook: Saginaw Country Club

Type: Private Region: East Central Holes: 18

SAINT

JOHN’S RESORT

44045 5 Mile Rd. Plymouth, MI 48170

Club: (734) 414-0600

Pro Shop: (734) 453-1047

Web: saintjohnsresort.com

Facebook: Saint John’s Resort

Region: Southeast

Type: Public Holes: 18, 7 hole Par 3 Course

SALEM HILLS GC

8810 W. 6 Mile Rd. Northville, MI 48168

Pro Shop: (248) 437-2152

Web: salemhillsgolfclub.com

SANDY PEBBLES GC

Ahmeek (906) 337-3516

SANDY RIDGE GC

2750 W. Lauria Rd

Midland, MI 48641

Pro Shop: (989) 631-6010

Web: golfsandyridge.com

Facebook: Sandy Ridge Golf Course

Instagram: @sandy_ridge_golf_ course

Type: Public Region: East Central

Founded: 1964

Holes: 18

SASKATOON GC

9038 92nd St. SE Alto, MI 49302

Pro Shop: (616) 891-9229

Web: saskatoongolf.com

Facebook: Saskatoon-Golf-Club

Type: Public Region: West Central Holes: 45

SAUGANASH CC

61270 Lutz Rd. Three Rivers, MI 49093

Pro Shop: (269) 278-7825

Web: golfsauganash.com

Facebook: Sauganash Country Club

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Architect: A.W. Tillinghast Founded: 1924 Holes: 18

SAULT STE. MARIE CC

1520 Riverside Dr. Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783

Club: (906) 632-9771

Pro Shop: (906) 632-7812

Web: saultstemariecc.com

Facebook: ssmcountryclub

Type: Semi-Private Region: Upper Peninsula Founded: 1901

Architect: Jerry Matthews

SCOTT LAKE CC

Comstock Park (616) 784-1355

SEIFERT GOLF CENTER

Grand Blanc (810) 655-8070

SELFRIDGE GC

Building 570

Selfridge ANGB, MI 48045

Club: (586) 239-4344

Pro Shop: (586) 239-4653

Web: detroit.armymwr.com

Facebook: Selfridge Golf Club

Type: Government/Military Region: Southeast Holes: 18

SHADOW RIDGE GC

1911 Kelsey Highway Ionia, MI 48846

Pro Shop: (616) 527-1180

Web: Shadowridgegolf.net

Facebook: Shadow Ridge Golf Course and Banquet Center

Type: Public Region: West Central Holes: 18

SHAMROCK HILLS GC

31071 County Rd. 390 Gobles, MI 49055

Pro Shop: (269) 628-2070

Web: shamrockhillsgolf.com

Facebook: Shamrock Hills Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Founded: 1969 Holes: 18

Architect: W. Bruce Matthews

SHANTY CREEK RESORTS

5780 Shanty Creek Rd. Bellaire, MI 49615

Club: (231) 533-3000

Web: shantycreek.com

Facebook: Shanty Creek Resorts

Type: Public Region: Northwest

Cedar River GC

Facebook: Salem Hills Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architect: Bruce Matthews Holes: 18

SANCTUARY LAKE GC

1450 E. South Blvd.

Troy, MI 48085

Pro Shop: (248) 619-7600

Web: golftroy.com

Facebook: Sanctuary Lake Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Founded: 2004 Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

SAND CREEK GC

MTESP Certified

RUSH LAKE HILLS GC Pinckney (734) 878-9790

Type: Public

Marne (616) 677-3379

SAND WEDGE GC

Ottawa Lake (734) 854-4909

SANDY CREEK GC

Monroe (734) 242-7200

Holes: 18

THE SAWMILL GOLF COURSE

19 Sawmill Blvd. Saginaw, MI 48603

Pro Shop: (989) 793-2692

Web: TheSawmill.com

Facebook: The Sawmill Golf &/or

Sawmill Pub & Grill

Type: Public Region: East Central Founded: 1997

Architect: John Sanford Jr. Holes: 18

SCENIC G&CC

8364 W. Filion Rd. Pigeon, MI 48755

Pro Shop: (989) 453-3350

Web: scenicgcc.com

Type: Public Region: East Central

Architect: Ron Ferris Golf Design Holes: 18

Architect: Tom Weiskopf Holes: 18

Summit GC

Architect: William Diddel Holes: 18

Schuss Mountain GC

Architects: Warner Bowen/ William Newcomb Holes: 18

The Legend GC

Architect: Arnold Palmer Holes: 18

Hawk’s Eye GC

Architect: John Robinson Holes: 18

SHENANDOAH CC

5600 Walnut Lake Rd.

West Bloomfield, MI 48323

Pro Shop: (248) 682-4300

Web: shenandoahgolfclub.com

Facebook: Shenandoah Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: Bruce Matthews Sr. Holes: 18

SHEPHERD’S HOLLOW GC

9085 Big Lake Rd.

Clarkston, MI 48346

Pro Shop: (248) 922-0300

Web: shepherdshollow.com

Facebook: Shepherd’s Hollow Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architects: Arthur Hills/Mike Bylen Holes: 27

SHERWOOD ON THE HILL

Gagetown (989) 665-9971

SILVER LAKE CC

Rockford (616) 874-7595

SILVER LAKE GC

Waterford (248) 673-1611

SILVER LAKE GC Brooklyn (517) 592-8036

SINGING BRIDGE GC

Tawas City (989) 362-0022

SNOW SNAKE SKI & GOLF

Harrison (989) 539-6583

SOLITUDE LINKS GC & BANQUET CENTER

5810 Flinchbaugh Rd. Kimball, MI 48074

Pro Shop: (810) 982-3673 ext. 1

Web: solitudelinksgolf.com

Facebook: @solitudelinks

Type: Public Region: East Central Founded: 2000

Architect: Torello Group Ltd. Holes: 18

SOMERSET GC Troy (248) 643-8737

SOUTH WINDS GOLF CLUB

Southgate (734) 258-3004

SPARKS BROADWAY GC Charlotte (517) 543-6723

SPRING VALLEY GC

Hersey (231) 832-5041

SPRING VALLEY GC

Kawkawlin (989) 686-0330

SPRINGBROOK GC

Walloon Lake (231) 535-5155

SPRINGBROOK GC & GRILL

Springfield (269) 441-7529

SPRINGDALE GC

316 Strathmore

Birmingham, MI 48009

Pro Shop: (248) 530-1660

Web: golfbirmingham.org

Facebook: City Government of Birmingham, MI

Type: Semi-private Region: Southeast

Holes: 9

Founded: 1929

SPRINGFIELD OAKS GC

12450 Andersonville Rd. Davisburg, MI 48350

Pro Shop: (248) 634-2261

Web: oaklandcountyparks.com

Facebook: Oakland County

Parks and Recreation

Instagram: @oaklandcountyparks

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

SQUIRREL HOLLOW GC

Battle Creek (269) 979-7277

ST. CLAIR GC

1714 N. River Rd.

St. Clair, MI 48079

Club: (810) 329-7300

Pro Shop: (810) 329-7458

Web: stclairgolfclub.com

Facebook: St. Clair Golf Club

SPARTA MOOSE FAMILY

CENTER & GOLF COURSE

Sparta (616) 887-9126

SPRING LAKE CC

17496 Fruitport Rd. Spring Lake, MI 49456

Club: (616) 842-4200

Pro Shop: (616) 850-1153

Web: springlakecc.com

Facebook: Spring Lake Country Club

Type: Private Region: West Central Holes: 18

Founded: 1911

SPRING MEADOWS CC

1129 Ripley Rd. Linden, MI 48451

Club: (810) 735-7836

Pro Shop: (810) 735-4363

Web: springmeadowscountryclub.com

Facebook: Spring Meadows Country Club

Type: Private Region: East Central

Architect: Larry Packard Holes: 18

Region: Upper Peninsula

Founded: 1927

Holes: 9

ST. JOE VALLEY GC

Sturgis (269) 467-6275

STATES GC

20 E West Ave.

Schoolcraft, MI 49087

Club: (269) 649-1931

Web: statesgolfcourse.com

Facebook: States Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southwest Holes: 18

Founded: 1927

STONEBRIDGE GC

1825 Clubhouse Dr. Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Pro Shop: (734) 429-8383

Web: stonebridgegolfclub.net

Facebook: Stonebridge Golf Club – Ann Arbor, MI

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: Arthur Hills Holes: 18

STONEGATE GC

4100 Sweeter Rd.

Twin Lake, MI 49457

Pro Shop: (231) 744-7200

Web: stonegategolfclub.com

Facebook: Stonegate Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architect: Pat Grelak

Founded: 2004

Holes: 18

Walking Not Permitted

STONEWATER CC

7177 Kalamazoo Ave.

Caledonia, MI 49316

Pro Shop: (616) 656-9898

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architects: Donald Ross/Jerry Matthews

Holes: 18

Unaccompanied guest must get permission to play from the golf professional

ST. CLAIR SHORES GC

22185 Masonic Blvd.

St. Clair Shores, MI 48082

Pro Shop: (586) 294-2000 ext. 1

Web: scsgolf.com

Facebook: St. Clair Shores Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

Architect: Jerry Matthews

*St. Clair Shores residents receive discounted rates

Senior and junior rates available M-F before noon

ST. IGNACE G & CC

W. 223 W. US-2

St. Ignace, MI 49781

Club: (906) 643-8071

Web: stignacegolf.com

Type: Public

Web: stonewatercc.com

Facebook: StoneWater Country Club

Type: Private Region: West Central Holes: 18

STONY CREEK METROPARK GC

5140 Main Pkwy.

Shelby Twp., MI 48316

Pro Shop: (586) 781-9166

Web: golf.metroparks.com

Facebook: Stony Creek Metropark

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: William Newcomb Holes: 18

STONY POINT GC Manistique (906) 341-3419

STONYCROFT HILLS CLUB

1960 Stonycroft Ln.

Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

Pro Shop: (248) 647-1294 ext. 1

Web: stonycroft.com

Type: Private Region: Southeast Holes: 9

Shepherd's Hollow GC

STORMY CREEK GC

Grand Rapids, 616-942-1330

SUGAR SPRINGS GC

1930 W. Sugar River Rd. Gladwin, MI 48624

Web: sugarsprings.net

Pro Shop: (989) 426-4391

Region: Northeast

Architect: Jerry Matthews

Holes: 18

Type: Public

SUGARBUSH GC

One Sugarbush Dr. Davison, MI 48423

Club: (810) 653-3326

Pro Shop: (810) 653-1124

Web: sugarbushgolf.com

Facebook: Sugarbush Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Architect: Dave Mancour

Founded: 1995 Holes: 18

Walking not permitted

SUGAR LOAF/THE OLD COURSE

4512 S. Townline Rd. Cedar, MI 49621

Pro Shop: (231) 228-2040

Web: sugarloaftheoldcourse. com

Facebook: Sugar Loaf The Old Course

Type: Public Region: Northwest Holes: 18

SUMMER BREEZE PAR 3 GC Fremont (231) 924-9759

SUNNYBROOK CC

624 Port Sheldon Ave. Grandville, MI 49418

Club: (616) 457-1100

Pro Shop: (616) 457-1102

Web: sunnybrookcc.com

Facebook: Sunnybrook Country

Club – Golf & Pool

Type: Private

Region: West Central

Architect: Bruce Matthews

Founded: 1958

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

SWAN VALLEY GC

9521 Highland Green Dr. Saginaw, MI 48609

Pro Shop: (989) 781-4653

Club: (810) 766-7043

Web: swanvalleygolf.com

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Holes: 18

Founded: 1959

Architect: Jerry Matthews

SWARTZ CREEK GC

1902 Hammerburg Rd. Flint, MI 48507

Club: (810) 766-7043

Web: flintcitygolfllc.com

Facebook: Swartz Creek Golf

Course

Type: Public Region: East Central Holes: 18

Swartz Creek Executive Course Holes: 9

SWEETGRASS GC

W399 Hwy. 2 & 41

Harris, MI 49845

Pro Shop: (906) 723-2251

Web: islandresortgolf.com

Facebook: Island Resort &

Casino

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

SYCAMORE HILLS GC

48787 North Ave. Macomb, MI 48042

Pro Shop: (586) 598-9500

Web: sycamorehills.com

Facebook: Sycamore Hills Golf

Club and Banquet Center

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 27

SYLVAN GLEN GC

5725 Rochester Rd. Troy, MI 48085

Pro Shop: (248) 619-7600

Web: golftroy.com

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Founded: 1922 Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

TTAM O’SHANTER CC

5051 Orchard Lake Rd.

West Bloomfield, MI 48323

Club: (248) 855-1900

Pro Shop: (248) 855-0655

Web: tamoshantercc.org

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: Captain C.H. Alison

Holes: 18

Caddies Available

THE TAMARACKS

Harrison (989) 539-5441

TANGLEWOOD GC

22805 Country Club Dr. South Lyon, MI 48178

Pro Shop: (248) 486-3355

Web: tanglewoodlion.com

Facebook: Tanglewood Golf Club & Restaurant

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architect: William Newcomb

Holes: 27

TANGLEWOOD MARSH GC

2600 W. 16th Ave.

Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783

Club: (906) 635-7651

Web: tanglewoodmarsh.com

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula Holes: 18

TAWAS CREEK GC

Tawas City (989) 362-6262

TAYLOR MEADOWS GC

25360 Ecorse Rd.

Taylor, MI 48180

Pro Shop: (734) 287-2100

Web: taylorgolf.com

Facebook: Taylor Meadows

Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast Architect: Arthur Hills Holes: 18

TECUMSEH GC

5200 Milwaukee Rd. Tecumseh, MI 49286

Pro Shop: (734) 730-1506

Club: (517) 423-2070

Web: tecumsehgolfclub.com

Type: Private Region: Southeast Founded: 1948

TERRA VERDE GC & BANQUET CENTER

Nunica (616) 837-8249

TERRACE BLUFF GC Gladstone (906) 428-2343

THORNAPPLE POINTE

7211 48th St.

Grand Rapids, MI 49512

Pro Shop: (616) 554-4747

Web: thornapplepointe.com

Facebook: Thornapple Pointe Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architect: William Newcomb Holes: 18

THORNE BROTHERS AT LILAC GC

Newport (734) 586-7555

THORNE HILLS GC

Carleton (734) 587-2332

THOUSAND OAKS GC

4100 Thousand Oaks Dr. Grand Rapids, MI 49525

Pro Shop: (616) 447-7750 ext. 2

Web: thousandoaksgolf.com

Facebook: Thousand Oaks Golf Club

Type: Private Region: West Central

Architect: Rees Jones

Holes: 18

THREE FIRES GC

6045 136th St. Holland, MI 49424

Pro Shop: (616) 399-1678

Web: threefiresgolf.com

Facebook: Three Fires Golf Club

Instagram: @threefiresgolfclub

Type: Public Region: West Central

Founded: 1961

Architect: Bruce Matthews

Holes: 27

THUNDER BAY GOLF & RV RESORT

Hillman (989) 742-4875

TIMBER RIDGE GC

16339 Park Lake Rd.

East Lansing, MI 48823

Pro Shop: (517) 940-8095

Web: eagleeyegolfclub.com

Facebook: Eagle Eye Golf & Banquet Center

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 18

Sycamore Hills GC

TIMBER TRACE GC

One Champions Circle

Pinckney, MI 48169

Club: (734) 878-1800

Web: timbertracegc.com

Facebook: TimberTraceGolf

Type: Public Region: Southeast Architect: Conroy/Dewling Associates

Holes: 18

TIMBER WOLF GC

Kalkaska (231) 258-5685

TIMBERS GC

7300 Bray Rd. Vassar, MI 48768

Pro Shop: (989) 871-4884

Web: timbersgolfclub.com

Type: Public

Region: East Central Holes: 18

TIMBERSTONE GC

N3332 Pine Mountain Rd. Iron Mountain, MI 49801

Club: (906) 776-0111

Web: pinemountainresort.com/ timber-stone-golf-course/ Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 18

TIMBERWOOD GC

23700 31 Mile Rd. Ray, MI 48096

Club: (586) 784-6000

Web: timberwoodgc.com

Facebook: Timberwood Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: Laura Viola Holes: 18

Founded: 2006

TOMAC WOODS GC Albion (517) 629-8241

TPC MICHIGAN

One Nicklaus Dr. Dearborn, MI 48120

Club: (313) 436-3000

Pro Shop: (313) 436-3100

Web: tpcmichigan.com

Type: Private

Region: Southeast

Architect: Jack Nicklaus

Holes: 18

TRAVERSE CITY G&CC

1725 S. Union

Traverse City, MI 49684

Club: (231) 947-9140

Pro Shop: (231) 947-3553

Web: tcgcc.com

Type: Private

Region: Northwest

Architect: Tom Bendelow Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

TRAVERSE CITY GOLF

CENTER

6270 Secor Rd.

Traverse City, MI 49685

Pro Shop: (231) 947-1185

Web: tcgolfcenter.com

Facebook: TCGolf Center

Region: Northwest

TRAVIS POINTE CC

2829 Travis Pointe Rd.

Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Club: (734) 662-2582

Pro Shop: (734) 662-5703

Web: travispointe.com

Facebook: Travis Pointe Country

Club

Type: Private

Region: Southeast

Architect: William Newcomb

Holes: 18

Founded: 1977

TREETOPS RESORT

3962 Wilkinson Rd.

Gaylord, MI 49735

Pro Shop: (989) 732-6711

Web: treetops.com

Facebook: Treetops Resort

Type: Resort

Smith Signature Architect: Rick

Smith

Holes: 18

Region: Northeast

Smith Tradition

Architect: Rick Smith

Holes: 18

Fazio Premier

Architect: Tom Fazio

Holes: 18

Jones Masterpiece

Architect: Robert Trent Jones Sr.

Holes: 18

Threetops Par 3 Course

Architect: Rick Smith

Holes: 9

TRUE NORTH GC

2500 True North Dr. Harbor Springs, MI 49740

Club: (231) 526-3300

Web: truenorthgolf.com

Facebook: True North Golf Club

Type: Private Region: Northwest

Architect: James Engh

Holes: 18

TULLYMORE GOLF RESORT

9900 St. Ives Dr. Stanwood, MI 49346

11969 Tullymore Dr. Stanwood, MI 49346

Pro Shop: (231) 972-4837

Web: tullymoregolf.com

Facebook: Tullymore Golf Resort

Type: Resort/Semi-private Region: West Central

St. Ives

Architect: Jerry Matthews

Holes: 18

Tullymore

Architect: James Engh

TURTLE CREEK GC

Burlington (517) 765-2232

TUSTIN TRAILS GC

Tustin (231) 829-5455

TWIN BEACH CC

7625 Glascott Ave.

West Bloomfield, MI 48323

Pro Shop: (248) 363-3335

Web: twinbeachcc.com

Facebook: Twin Beach Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast Holes: 9

TWIN BIRCH GC

1030 Co Rd. 612

Kalkaska, MI 49646

Club: (231) 258-9691

Web: twinbirchgolf.com

Facebook: Twin Birch Golf Club

and Restaurant

Type: Public

Architects: Ron Cross/Joe Roeske

Region: Northwest

Founded: 1967 Holes: 18

TWIN BROOKS GC

1005 N McKeighan Rd. Chesaning, MI 48616

Club: (989) 845-6403

Web: twinbrooksgolfclub.com

Facebook: Twin Brooks Golf Course

Type: Public

Region: East Central

Founded: 1960 Holes: 18

TWIN LAKES GOLF & SWIM CLUB

455 Twin Lakes Dr. Oakland, MI 48363

Pro Shop: (248) 650-4960

Web: twinlakesgc.com

Facebook: Twin Lakes Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architects: Jerry Matthews/Ray Hearn Holes: 27

TWIN OAKS GC Freeland (989) 695-9746

TWIN OAKS GC St. Johns (989) 224-7342

TYLER CREEK GC & CAMPGROUND Alto (616) 868-6751

TYRONE HILLS GC

8449 Old US 23 Fenton, MI 48430

Pro Shop: (810) 629-5011

Web: tyronehillsgolf.com

Facebook: Tyrone Hills Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: Bruce Matthews

UUBLY HEIGHTS G&CC

2400 E. Atwater Rd. Ubly, MI 48475

Pro Shop: (989) 658-2374

Web: ublyheights.com

Facebook: Ubly Heights Golf & Country Club

Type: Public Region: East Central

Architect: Bruce Matthews III Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

UNION LAKE GC

Commerce Twp. (248) 363-4666

Holes: 18 No pull carts

WALLINWOOD SPRINGS GC

8152 Weatherwax Dr. Georgetown Twp., MI 49428 Club: (616) 457-9920

Web: Wallinwoodsprings.com

Facebook: Wallinwood Springs Golf Club

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architect: Jerry Matthews Holes: 18

WALLOON LAKE CC

05995 Country Club Shores Petoskey, MI 49770

Pro Shop: (231) 535-2992

Holes: 18

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN GC

500 E. Stadium Blvd. Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Pro Shop: (734) 615-GOLF

Web: umgolfcourse.umich.edu

Facebook: umichgolfcourse

Type: University/Semi-private Region: Southeast

Architect: Alister MacKenzie Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

UNIVERSITY PARK GC Muskegon (231) 773-0023

VVASSAR G&CC Vassar (989) 823-7221

VERONA HILLS GC

3175 Sand Beach Rd. Bad Axe, MI 48413

Club: (989) 269-6380

Pro Shop: (989) 269-8132

Web: veronahillsgolf.com

Facebook: Verona Hills Golf Club

Type: Semi-private Region: East Central Architects: Arnat/Ellis/Trusdale Holes: 18

VIENNA GREENS GC Clio (810) 686-1443

VILLAGE GREEN GC Newaygo (231) 652-6513

WWABEEK CC

4000 Clubgate Dr. Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302

Club: (248) 855-0700

Pro Shop: (248) 539-7109

Web: wabeekcc.com

Facebook: Wabeek Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast Architects: Pete Dye/Jack Nicklaus

Web: walloonlakecc.com

Facebook: Walloon Lake Country Club

Type: Private Region: Northwest Holes: 18

Founded: 1904

WALNUT CREEK CC

25501 Johns Rd. South Lyon, MI 48178 Club: (248) 437-7337

Pro Shop: (248) 437-7470

Web: walnutcreekcc.net

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: Brian Huntley

Founded: 1955

Holes: 27

Caddies Available

Full driving range and shortgame practice facility available

WARFIELD GREENS GC Fraser (586) 293-9887

WARWICK HILLS G&CC

G-9057 S. Saginaw Rd. Grand Blanc, MI 48439 Club: (810) 694-4103 Pro Shop: (810) 694-9251

Web: warwickhills.org

Type: Private Region: East Central

Architect: Joe Lee Holes: 18

MTESP Certified Caddies Available

WASHAKIE GC & RV RESORT North Branch (810) 688-3235

WASHTENAW

GOLF CLUB

2955 Packard Rd. Ypsilanti, MI 48197

Club: (734) 434-2150

Pro Shop: (734) 434-2040

Web: washtenawgolfclub.com

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

WATERLOO GC Grass Lake (517) 522-8527

WATERMARK CC

1600 Galbraith Ave. SE

Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Club: (616) 949-0570

Pro Shop: (616) 949-0570 ext. 2

Web: watermarkcc.com

Facebook: Watermark Country Club

Type: Private Region: West Central Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

WATER’S EDGE GC

1100 Ramshorn Dr. Fremont, MI 49412

Pro Shop: (231) 924-2640

Web: watersedgefremont.com

Facebook: @watersedgegolfclub

Type: Public

Region: West Central

Architect: Jerry Matthews & Raymond Hearn Holes: 18 & Practice Facility

WATER’S EDGE CC Grosse Ile (734) 675-0777

WAWASHKAMO GC

3723 British Landing Rd. Mackinac Island, MI 49757

Pro Shop: (906) 847-3871

Web: wawashkamo.com

Facebook: Wawashkamo Golf Club

Type: Semi-private Region: Upper Peninsula Holes: 9

WAWONOWIN CC

3432 County Rd. 478

Champion, MI 49814

Club: (906) 485-5660

Pro Shop: (906) 485-1435

Web: wawonowin.com

Facebook: Wawonowin Country Club

Type: Semi-private Region: Upper Peninsula Holes: 18

WEQUETONSING GC

5543 M-119

Harbor Springs, MI 49740

Club: (231) 526-5351

Web: wequetonsinggolfclub. com

Type: Private Region: Northwest

Founded: 1896 Holes: 18

WESBURN G&CC

5617 S Huron River Dr. Rockwood, MI 48179

Pro Shop: (734) 379-3555

Web: wesburngolfcourse.com

Type: Public

Region: Southeast Holes: 18

WEST BRANCH CC

1905 Fairview West Branch, MI 48661

Club: (989) 345-2501

Web: westbranchcountryclub.com

Facebook: West Branch Country Club

Type: Public Region: Northeast Holes: 18

WEST SHORE G&CC

22843 W. River Rd. Grosse Ile, MI 48138

Club: (734) 676-1944

Pro Shop: (734) 676-0330

Web: westshoregcc.com

Facebook: West Shore Golf and Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast Architect: George Ferry Holes: 18

WESTERN G&CC

14600 Kinloch Redford, MI 48239

Club: (313) 531-1240

Pro Shop: (313) 531-2323

Web: westerngcc.com

Facebook: Western Golf & Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast

Architect: Donald Ross Holes: 18

MTESP Certified Caddies Available

WESTERN GREENS GC

2475 Johnson St. Marne, MI 49435

Pro Shop: (616) 677-3677

Web: westerngreensgolfcourse. com

Facebook: @westerngreensgolf

Type: Public Region: West Central

Superintendent: Brian May Holes: 18

WESTWIND GOLF COURSE

Muskegon (231) 773-8814

WESTWYND GC

4161 N. Adams Rd.

Rochester Hills, MI 48306

Pro Shop: (248) 608-7820

Web: westwyndgolf.com

Facebook: Westwynd Golf & Grille

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

WHEATFIELD VALLEY GC

1600 Linn Rd. Williamston, MI 48895

Pro Shop: (517) 655-6999

Web: wheatfieldvalley.com

Facebook: Wheatfield Valley Golf Course

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

WHIFFLETREE HILL GC

Concord (517) 524-6655

WHISPERING PINES GC

2500 Whispering Pines Dr. Pinckney, MI 48169

Pro Shop: (734) 878-0009

Web: whisperingpinesgc.com

Facebook: Whispering Pines

Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southeast

Architect: Donald Moon

Holes: 18

WHISPERING WILLOWS GC

20500 Newburgh Rd. Livonia, MI 48152

Pro Shop: (248) 476-4493

Web: golflivonia.com

Facebook: Golf Livonia

Type: Public

Region: Southeast

Architect: Mark DeVries

WHITE OAKS GC Hillsdale (517) 437-3434

WHITE OAKS GC

Goodells (810) 325-9292

WHITE PINE NATIONAL GOLF RESORT

3450 N. Hubbard Lake Rd. Spruce, MI 48762

Pro Shop: (989) 736-3279

Web: whitepinenational.com

Facebook: White Pine National Golf

Type: Resort Region: Northeast

Architects: Bruce Wolfrom/ Clem Wolfrom Holes: 18

WHITEFISH LAKE GOLF & GRILL Pierson (616) 636-5260

WHITEFORD VALLEY GC Ottawa Lake (734) 856-4545

WHITMORE LAKE GOLF LINKS

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

WHITE BIRCH HILLS GC Bay City (989) 662-6523

WHITE DEER CC

1309 Bright Angel Dr. Prudenville, MI 48651

Club: (989) 366-5812

Web: whitedeercc.com

Type: Public Region: Northeast

Founded: 1966

Holes: 18

WHITE LAKE GC

6777 S. Shore Dr. Whitehall, MI 49461

Pro Shop: (231) 893-4232

Web: whitelakegolfclub.com

Facebook: White Lake Golf Club

Type: Private Region: West Central

Holes: 18 & Practice Facility

Architects: Tom Bendelow, Al Seckel & Ray Hearn

Founded: 1916

Lessons: PGA Golf Lessons available to members and nonmembers

Guest Play: Must be a guest of a member; reciprocal privileges with other private clubs, nonmember outings welcome

WHITE LAKE OAKS GC

991 S. Williams Lake Rd. White Lake, MI 48386

Pro Shop: (248) 698-2700

Web: OaklandCountyParks.com

Type: Public

Architect: Van Tine family Holes: 18

MTESP Certified

1111 6 Mile Rd. Whitmore Lake, MI 48189

Pro Shop: (734) 449-4653

Web: whitmorelakegolflinks. com

Type: Public Facebook: Whitmore Lake Golf Links

Region: Southeast

Architect: William Newcomb Holes: 18

WHITTAKER WOODS GC New Buffalo (269) 469-3400

WICKER HILLS GC 7287 Wickert Rd. Hale, MI 48739

Club: (989) 728-9971

Web: wickerhillsgolf.com

Type: Public Region: Northeast Founded: 1971 Holes: 18

WILD BLUFF GC Brimley (906) 248-5860

WILD PINES GC Hermansville (906) 295-0373

WILDERNESS GC Carp Lake (231) 537-4973

WILDWOOD LAKES GC Wolverine (231) 525-8949

WILLOW BROOK GC Byron (810) 266-4660

WILLOW METRO PARK GC

22900 Huron River Dr. New Boston, MI 48164

Pro Shop: (734) 753-4040

Web: golf.metroparks.com

Facebook: Lower Huron, Oakwoods & Willow Metroparks

Walnut Creek CC

Type: Public Region: Southeast Holes: 18

WILLOW RIDGE GC

Fort Gratiot (810) 982-7010

WILLOW SPRINGS GC Vassar (989) 871-9703

WILLOW TREE GC Melvin (810) 387-4001

WILLOW WOOD GC Portland (517) 647-1984

WINDING CREEK GC

4514 Ottogan St. Holland, MI 49423

Pro Shop: (616) 396-4516

Web: windingcreekgolfclub.com

Facebook: Winding Creek Golf Club

Type: Public Region: Southwest

Architects: Matthews/Eakley/ Wiersema Holes: 27

WOLF CREEK GC

Adrian (517) 265-3944

WOLF RIVER GOLF PARK

11685 Chippewa Hwy. Bear Lake, MI 49614

Club: (231) 398-3980

Type: Public

Web: wolfrivergolfpark.com

Instagram: @wolfrivergolfpark

Region: Northwest Holes: 18

Founded: 1965

WOODLAND HILLS GC

320 N. Gates

Sandusky, MI 48471

Pro Shop: (810) 648-2400

Web: woodlandhillsclub.com

Facebook: Woodland Hills Golf Club

Type: Public Region: East Central Holes: 18

WOODLANDS OF VAN BUREN Wayne (734) 729-4477

WOODLAWN GC

Adrian (517) 263-3288

WOODSIDE GC

14400 Wood Rd.

Bath, MI 48906

Pro Shop: (517) 242-8527

Web: eagleeyegolfclub.com

Type: Public

Region: East Central Holes: 12

WOODSIDE MEADOWS GC

Romulus (734) 782-5136

WOODY’S RUN GOLF COURSE Escanaba (906) 786-4034

WUSKOWHAN

PLAYERS CLUB

16111 Blair

West Olive, MI 49460

Pro Shop: (616) 738-6000

Web: wuskowhan.com

Facebook: Wuskowhan Players Club

Type: Private Region: West Central

Architect: Rick Smith & Warren

Henderson

Holes: 18

MTESP Certified Caddies Available

WYANDOTTE HILLS GC & RESORT

5755 Poyhonen Rd.

Toivola, MI 49965

Club: (906) 231-0966

Web: boondockinn.com

Type: Public Region: Upper Peninsula Holes: 9

WYANDOTTE SHORES GC

3625 Biddle Ave.

Wyandotte, MI 48192

Pro Shop: (734) 324-7270

Web: wyandotte.net

Type: Public Region: Southeast Founded: 1996 Holes: 9

MTESP Certified

THE WYNDGATE

1975 W. Gunn Rd. Rochester Hills, MI 48306

Pro Shop: (248) 608-7805

Web: thewyndgate.com

Facebook: The Wyndgate Country Club

Type: Private Region: Southeast Founded:1995 Holes: 18

YYANKEE SPRINGS GC Wayland (269) 795-0030

YE NYNE OLDE HOLES GC East Jordan (231) 582-7609

YE OLDE COUNTRY CLUB Roscommon (989) 275-5582

YOUNG’S GOLF COURSE

159 Young’s Lane Hwy. 424

Iron River, MI 49935

Pro Shop: (906) 265-3401 ext. 1

Web: experienceyoungs.com

Facebook: @YoungsIronCounty

Instagram: youngsironcounty

Type: Public

Region: Upper Peninsula

Founded: 1984 Holes: 18

GAM Allied Associations

Association of Golf Presidents (810) 938-4500

President Barry Babbitt, Plum Hollow CC

Secretary — Tom Bollinger, Spring Meadows CC

Greater Michigan Chapter of Club Management Association of America (248) 973-7943

President — Charles Johnson, CCM, Detroit Athletic Club

Managing Director — Tammy Carter mdgmcma@gmail.com

Michigan Golf Course Association (800) 860-8575

President — Jim Szilagyi, LYNX Golf Course

Executive Director — Jada Paisley jpaisley@michigangca.org michigangca.org

Michigan Golf Course Superintendents Association (616) 834-0450

President — Gene Davis, Elk Rapids GC

Executive Director — Adam Ikamas, CGCS adamikamas@migcsa.org migcsa.org

Michigan Golf Hall of Fame

Chair — Greg Johnson Gregeeee24@gmail.com

Administrator — Loretta Larkin (248) 719-0650 llarkin@michigan-golffoundation.com mghof.org

Michigan Section of Professional Golfers’ Association (517) 641-7421

President — Stephanie Jennings

Executive Director — Kevin Helm

khelm@michiganpga.com www.michiganpga.com

MSU Turf Team

Dr. Kevin Frank (517) 353-0147 frankk@msu.edu

Dr. David Gilstrap (517) 353-0140 gilstrap@msu.edu

Dr. Emily Merewitz-Holm (517) 353-0203 merewitz@msu.edu

Dr. Thom Nikolai (517) 353-0133 nikolait@msu.edu

Dr. John N. Rogers III (517) 353-0136 rogersj@msu.edu

Michigan Turfgrass Environmental Stewardship Program

Program Director — Adam Ikamas, CGCS adam@mtesp.org www.mtesp.org

Michigan Turfgrass Foundation (517) 392-5003

President — Brad Lazroff Executive Director — Carey Mitchelson Contact Person — Britney Vanderkodde miturfgrass@gmail.com michiganturfgrass.org

United States Golf Association (908) 234-2300 (800) 222-8742 usga@usga.org

USGA Agronomist — Zach Nicoludis, (412) 215-6488, znicoludis@usga.org Director of Regional Affairs — Jake Miller, (920) 621-4170, jjmiller@usga.org

Western Golf Association (Evans Scholars) (847) 724-4600

President and CEO — John Kaczkowski wgaesf.org

Chapter Houses

• Michigan State University

Chapter House Advisor — John Ambrose

Chris Stone-Shablin

• University of Michigan

Chapter House Advisors —

Paul Robinson

Lisa Emery

Golf Growth

Expect a lot of development in Michigan this year

/ BY CHRIS WHITTEN, GAM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

If you’ve been following Michigan golf news, you know exciting things are happening! From new course developments and renovations to growing participation and technological advancements, the game is evolving in ways that make it more fresh, accessible, enjoyable, and rewarding.

Reflecting this momentum, the membership of the Golf Association of Michigan has surged 60% since 2020, and we aim to reach 100,000 members this season. This growth demonstrates a renewed enthusiasm for golf and the strong community spirit among diverse Michigan golfers. Whether you’re a new member discovering how the GAM can make your golf experiences better or a longtime supporter who’s seen our association grow over the years, you are part of something special. And we thank you!

Course development is another highlight, with new courses emerging and other historic layouts at GAM member clubs undergoing renovations. Michigan continues to solidify its status as a premier golf destination — one that continues to honor tradition while embracing innovation. Be sure to thank your golf course superintendents and teams for their tireless, expert work!

Chris Whitten

Speaking of innovation, our partners at the USGA continue to enhance the GHIN mobile app, which has become an essential tool for today’s golfer. While many of you are familiar with GHIN for posting scores and maintaining your handicap index, the app now offers so much more. Features like GHIN Games, group scorekeeping, GPS, and expanded stat tracking make every round more engaging, and even more enhancements are planned for 2025.

Even as the game progresses, the GAM remains committed to celebrating important traditions that define Michigan golf’s history. That’s why it’s particularly special to bring our oldest championship, the Michigan Amateur, back to Belvedere Golf Club in honor of the club’s 100th season. The 114th playing of this championship will be a true celebration of history, competition, and the lasting spirit of the game.

So, what will be new for you on the course this season? Will you play a new course? Sign up for a social GAM Golf Day, championship, or local league? Take a lesson from a PGA professional? Maybe you’ll walk more rounds or take a caddie for the first time. Or maybe you’ll pay it forward by signing up a young golfer for Youth on Course to create a new lifelong player. We live in one of the best places in the world for summer golf; let’s enjoy every round to the fullest.

Most of all, thanks for making the GAM part of your Michigan golf experience. Enjoy the season!