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15 things I LEARNED this week about MICHIGAN GOLF Dianna Stampfler

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15 things I LEARNED this week about MICHIGAN

GOLFDianna

Stampfler

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June is Michigan Golf Month!

With over 865 courses and 86 resorts, Michigan’s golf economy is valued at more than$4.2 billion, creating about 57,000 jobs with $1.4 billion of wage income. The industry also has a $118 million charitable impact on the state.* Not bad for a state without a 12-month golf season!

SOURCE: Michigan Golf Course Owners Association

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Mackinac Island is home to the state’s first golf course

The 9-hole links-style Wawashkamo Golf Club on Mackinac Island was laid in 1898 on a farmer’s field that had been the site of the 1814 Battle of Mackinac Island. It is the oldest, continuously played golf course in Michigan and was honored as one of "America's Historic Golf Landmarks" by Golf Digest in 1996. The course is contained within Mackinac Island State Park. The name of the club and course comes from the Anishinaabe word for the act of 'walking a crooked trail'

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Les Cheneaux is the oldest, continuously played links course

The public Les Cheneaux Golf Club began operation in May 1898 and is the oldest, continuously-played linkscourse in Michigan. Early members of the Les Cheneaux Club (established 1888) developed and chartered the course. The course is a par 35, with 18 tees and is the style of the traditional Scottish links—using the natural lay of the land. It is accessible by water from a public dock off the Snows Channel.

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Charlevoix’s Belvedere Club dates back to 1925

The Belvedere Golf Club is one of the most historic and celebrated golf clubs in Northern Michigan. Located just south of Charlevoix, Belvedere is a classic parkland golf club that is challenging enough to test today's best golfers yet playable enough for the novice weekend player. Belvedere’s history begins back in 1925, when members of the Charlevoix Summer Resort Association decided their existing social club needed a golf course.

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Crystal Downs has a long-standing history of private play

Crystal Downs Country Club is a private country club and lakefront community in Benzie County, near Frankfort.Designed in 1929 by golf course architects Alister MacKenzie and Perry Maxwell, the par-70, 6,518-yard course offers views of Lake Michigan and Crystal Lake. The country club and surrounding housing comprise the "Crystal Downs Country Club“. Crystal Downs is currently ranked the #19 course in the world by Golf.com.

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Michigan’s top rated golf course overlooks Lake Michigan

Arcadia Bluffs in Manistee County opened in 2000,

on 245 acres overlooking Lake Michigan. Its 3,100feet of Great Lakes shoreline puts it over the top.The golf course was designed to resemble seaside Irish links, with rolling terrain and windswept natural fescues throughout. Golf Digest named Arcadia Bluffs one of the 100 Greatest Golf Courses in the U.S., ranking #10 as America's 100Greatest Public Courses list.

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A top 10 private course is found just outside Detroit

The private Arthur Hills-designed Oakhurst Golf & Country Club in Clarkston (Oakland County) was thoughtful designed to fit gently into the Michigan countryside, weaving its way through the woods of oak, pine, maple and protected wetlands. Golf Digest has ranked this championship course among the Top 10 Private Courses in the state of Michigan. Oakhurst was also home of the 99th

Michigan Amateur, in 2010.

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Senior PGA Championship to return to Harbor Shores

The 18-hole, Jack Nicklaus Signature Course – Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor – opened in 2010. Harbor Shores will play host to the Senior PGA Championship in 2016 and 2018 (after hosting in 2012 and 2014). The course runs over diverse terraine, with three holes offering dramatic views of Lake Michigan and 11 holes bordering the Paw Paw River, Ox Creek and its wetlands.

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Chef Mario Batali loves golfing in Michigan

The Arnold Palmer “Signature Course” – Manitou Passage – is one of Chef Mario Batali’s favorite places to swing the clubs in Michigan (he has a vacation home in the area).Situated in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, on the Leelanau Peninsula, this course was named one of the “Best New Courses” in 2010 by Golfweek Magazine. It is owned and operated by the award-winning Homestead Resort.

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Repurposing leads to most scenic bayside course

The famed 27-hold Bay Harbor Golf Club (along Little Traverse Bay, between Charlevoix and Petoskey) is perhaps the greatest work of famed designer Arthur Hills, and is regularly ranked among the nation’s best. The site was a former cement factory site with 60-acres contaminated by kiln dust, and 50 that were a defunct quarry. The site was transformed into a gorgeous course, complete with gorges 40-feet deep flanked by stone cliff walls.

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Forest Dunes is among Michigan’s bucket list courses

Forest Dunes Golf Club is Roscommon is the 11th Ranked Public Golf Course in the U.S. Designed by 1973 British Open Champion Tom Weiskopf, Forest Dunes is recognized as one of the best golf courses in America. It has beenTouted as “Pine Valley meets Augusta.” It has also been called one of Michigan’s “bucket list” courses to play.

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Crystal Mountain hosts Michigan PGA Women’s Open

Crystal Mountain Resort in Thompsonville is proud to be celebrating 13 years as host of the Michigan PGA Women’s Open, June 29-July 1. This premier event is considered among the finest Women’s Open Championships in the nation. Hosted on the signature Mountain Ridge course, the three-round championship has been decided on the final hole of regulation or a playoff in six of the previous nine years.

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Michigan is home to well-known Par 3 golf courses

Little Myth Par 3 Golf course located near Rochester and Lake Orion is popular for senior golfer, junior golfers and lady golfers. Myth golf course is owned and operated by Vargo Golf Company, which also hosts other Junior Golf leagues and junior golf tournaments in other areas of Oakland County and Macomb County.

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Foot Golf is taking Michigan by storm

Combine the best of soccer and golf with Foot Golf at Treetops Resort in Gaylord, Shanty Creek Resort in

Bellaire, Elmbrook Golf Course in Traverse City, Riverwood Resort in Mount Pleasant, Brookside Golf Course in Gowen and The Polo Fields Golf & Country Club in Ann Arbor, among others sanctioned by the Amercan FootGolf League.

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Dollar Island features one of Michigan’s most unique homes

The PGA Golf Management Program at Ferris State University was established in 1975 and was the firstprogram of its kind. The program is best described as a joint venture with the Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) and designed for the student interested in a career in the golf industry as a PGA member. Students gain both a B.S. degree in Business Administration from FSU and fulfilledrequirements for membership in the PGA.

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