Belvedere Golf Club: Tom Watson's teenage playground holds its own in northern Michigan
Luxury golf resorts such as Bay Harbor, Treetops and Grand Traverse have transformed northern Michigan golf in recent years, but 80-year-old Belvedere Golf Club remains a favorite among old Wolverine State golf hands like Tom Watson.
Kingsley Club in Michigan gains national attention as a modern golf throwback
Leave the black tie and ballroom gown at home. The new private Kingsley Club, south of golf-happy Traverse City, Mich., is getting back to the game of golf's understated traditions - proving luxury doesn't always mean flashy accessories.
Beeches Golf Club in South Haven: Who says a new golf course has to be expensive?
You won't find many developers looking to build a golf course in the United States with greens fees of under $50 these days - not when trends are shifting most projects private or north of $100. There are anomalies, like the new Beeches Golf Club in South Haven, Mich.
- Pilgrim's Run Golf Club a surprise gem north of Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Bring your thinking cap to Doak's Black Forest Golf Course in Gaylord
- The Crown's as close to 'metro golf' as you get in Traverse City
- New course at A-Ga-Ming Golf Club is bigger and badder but don't dismiss the original
- The Mines explodes into the Grand Rapids golf scene
- King's Challenge G.C. near Traverse City: A classic N. Michigan golf course
- The Bear at Grand Traverse remains one of Michigan's toughest golf tests
- Tanglewood in South Lyon definitely stacks up with the best of suburban Detroit golf
- St. John's in Plymouth resurrects into a hotbed of golf on sacred ground
- Timber Trace in Pinckney gives southeast Michigan a taste of north Michigan golf
- Get outta town! For best public golf in Ann Arbor, go beyond the city limits
- Eagle Crest quietly turns into a premier golf facility in SE Michigan
- Angels Crossing spreads its wings on a southwest Michigan village
- Lyon Oaks in Oakland County: Your local muni never looked so good
- Eagle Eye soars over golf offerings in Central Michigan
- Wawashkamo Golf Club an island experience full of military history
- Fox Hills has something for every level of golfer, especially a few lessons
- The Warren Course at Notre Dame worthy of a truce
- Plymouth's Fox Hills is not only big, but it's versatile
- Hemlock Golf Club gaining attention in Michigan
- Wyandotte Shores Golf Course made in classic style of St. Andrews
- The Ranch puts the 'New' in New England golf
- LochenHeath still public, for now
- Forest Dunes Golf Club well worth the effort
- Yarrow making a name for itself in southern Michigan
- Birds of a feather: Eagle Eye Golf Club opens at Hawk Hollow
- Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club emerges from scandal of '98
- Head to Bay Harbor for the best -- in golf, and at the Inn
- Shepherd's Hollow Golf Club: The King of Golf in Metro Detroit
- Bay Harbor Golf Club
- Grande Golf Club in Jackson: Grand Indeed!
- Pinecroft: Value-priced Northern Michigan Golf
- Purgatory Golf Club: A Superb Golfing Experience
- Quail Chase Golf Club: Louisville's Best Bet for Golf
- Rick Smith Signature
- Rick Smith Tradition
- St. Ives Golf Club: Michigan's Most Overlooked Course
- The Tribute: An Embarrassment of Riches
- Tullymore Golf Course
- Black River Country Club: Surrounded by Rich History
- Clearbrook Golf Club
- Copper Ridge Golf Club
- Fieldstone Golf Club
- Lakes of Taylor Golf Club
- The Majestic at Lake Walden
- Northville Hills Golf Club
- Ravines Golf Club
- The Grande Golf Club
- The Preserve Golf Club Enters a New Era in Michigan
- The Straits Course at Whistling Straits Ready to Take Center Stage
- Partly Cloudy Forecast at Perplexing alderone Farms Golf Club
- Grand Haven Golf Club: Opportunity Knocks in Southern Michigan
- Lyon Oaks Golf Club Highlights Options in Oakland County
- Robert Trent Jones, Sr. Masterpiece Course at Treetops Resort
MICHIGAN FEATURE
After the nationally ranked resorts, try Northern Michigan's underdog golf courses
Northern Michigan has no shortage of high-profile golf gems, but don't head home until you experience a few of the north's overachieving lesser-known gems. A golf course is around every corner in this neck of the woods. Here are some of the most memorable and unique you may not know about.
MICHIGAN RESORT REVIEW
Renovations keep Grand Traverse Resort in Traverse City atop the rest in northern Michigan
It's bold, sleek architecture instantly attracts your attention and curiosity, standing tall, overlooking the West Traverse Bay horizon. For a small, blue-collar summer vacation town, filled with quaint boutiques and bed and breakfasts, you would never expect a world-class, Vegas-style resort to lie right on the town's outskirts.
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MICHIGAN PHOTO GALLERY
Schuss Mountain golf course at Shanty Creek Resorts - Bellaire, Michigan
Schuss Mountain at Shanty Creek Resorts in Bellaire is a classic, northern Michigan golf course built in the mid-1970s by Michigan architect William Newcomb. While it doesn't feature slopes and elevation changes as severe as many of the modern northern Michigan courses, it does have some roll on many holes as well as a few elevated tee boxes, especially on the back nine - which features more peaks and valleys along with added hole variety.
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MICHIGAN READER REVIEW
Reader returns to Hartland's Dunham Hills Golf Club for a round of golf to remember
"I played a twilight round of golf with my wife on Sunday, June 24, at Dunham Hills Golf Club in Hartland, Mich. I had forgotten what a great golf course this was."
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