Michigan (Lower Peninsula)
Michigan offers a vast spread of public golf courses. Bay Harbor Golf Club offers scenic bay views at virtually all holes while Robert Trend Jones Sr's Masterpiece course at the well-regarded Treetops resort makes the most of the natural landscape of valleys, plains and ravines. During your exploration of Grand Rapids' abundant natural beauty and electric nightlife, reserve the afternoon(s) for the championship layout at Thousand Oaks Golf Club or challenging, nationally-ranked course at Tullymore Golf Resort.
Visitors welcome
Traverse City
Rick Smith in collaboration with Warren Henderson.
Visitors welcome
Petoskey / Harbor Springs
Arthur Hills in collaboration with owner Stephen Kircher.
Visitors welcome
Petoskey / Harbor Springs
(Closed in 2019)
Gaylord
Tom Doak
Visitors welcome
Petoskey / Harbor Springs
Visitors welcome
Petoskey / Harbor Springs
Robert Trent Jones Sr
Visitors welcome
Petoskey / Harbor Springs
Arthur Hills
Visitors welcome
Petoskey / Harbor Springs
William Newcomb, Jim Flick and E. & S.Kircher
Visitors welcome
Petoskey / Harbor Springs
William Newcomb, Jim Flick and E. & S.Kircher
Visitors welcome
Petoskey / Harbor Springs
William Newcomb designed both courses at Boyne Mountain: Alpine course (1970), Monument course (1985).
Visitors welcome
Petoskey / Harbor Springs
Harry Bowers
Private club
Traverse City
Dr. Alister MacKenzie in collaboration with Perry Maxwell.
Visitors welcome
Grand Rapids
Chris Lutzke in collaboration with Pete Dye.
(Closed in 2016)
Gaylord
Jerry Matthews
Visitors welcome
Gaylord
Rsrt guests only
Gaylord
Private club
Detroit
Visitors welcome
Traverse City
Visitors welcome
Traverse City
Visitors welcome
Grand Rapids
Visitors welcome
Grand Rapids
Visitors welcome
Grand Rapids
Visitors welcome
Grand Rapids
Visitors welcome
Grand Rapids
A Jack Nicklaus Signature Design
Visitors welcome
Grand Rapids
Visitors welcome
Traverse City
John F. Robinson
Visitors welcome
Grand Rapids
Arthur Hills & Steve Forrest
Visitors welcome
Petoskey / Harbor Springs
Bruce Matthews III
Visitors welcome
Gaylord
Kevin Aldridge designed the Gailes (1992) and Blackshire (2001) courses; Bruce & Jerry Matthews designed the Seradella course (1969).
(Closed in 2019)
Petoskey / Harbor Springs
Jeff Gorney
Private club
Chicago
Tom Doak
Visitors welcome
Detroit
Private club
Detroit
South course: original design by Donald Ross (1918); modifications by Arthur Hills (1987), Rees Jones (2006) and Gil Hanse (2019).
North course: original design by Donald Ross (1922); redesign by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1969); modifications by Arthur Hills & Steve Forrest (2014).
Visitors welcome
Detroit
Robert Trent Jones Jr.
Visitors welcome
Gaylord
Visitors welcome
Grand Rapids
Visitors welcome
Gaylord
Arthur Hills and design associate Chris Wilczynski.
Visitors welcome
Gaylord
Tom Weiskopf
Visitors welcome
Gaylord
Arnold Palmer & Ed Seay
Visitors welcome
Detroit
Visitors welcome
Grand Rapids
Jerry Matthews
Visitors welcome
Grand Rapids
Visitors welcome
Gaylord
Tom Fazio
Visitors welcome
Gaylord
Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Visitors welcome
Gaylord
Rick Smith
Private club
Petoskey / Harbor Springs
Visitors welcome
Grand Rapids
Jim Engh
Visitors welcome
Detroit
Original design by Dr Alister MacKenzie (1931); renovated by Arthur Hills (1994).
Tournaments:
Women’s major championships: the month of June sees two women’s majors: the US Women’s Open (June 3-6), with A Lim Kim defending, and the Women’s PGA Championship (June 24-27), with Sei Young Kim defending.
Senior PGA Championship: the revered Southern Hills in Oklahoma hosts the 81st staging of this event (May 27-30); Ken Tanigawa holds the title from its last playing in 2019.
Who's Who:
Phil Mickelson: in winning the 2021 PGA Championship, the world’s most famous “leftie” became the oldest winner of a golf major championship.
Hideki Matsuyama: became the first Japanese professional to win a men’s major championship, when he triumphed in this year’s Masters Tournament.
New 27-hole golf complex to be built in southern Belgium
A new golf complex in southern Belgium, close to the border with Luxembourg, will start construction in June 2021.
American Dunes opens for play following Nicklaus transformation
Nicklaus Design has transformed the former Grand Haven Golf Club in Michigan into the American Dunes Golf Club, a new public course that is now open for play
New course opens for play at Barnbougle
Bill Coore designs 14-hole layout with “sporty” holes on dune ridge above Lost Farm (golf carts allowed).
Gamble Sands opens short course:
David McLay Kidd’s 14-hole QuickSands short course has opened for play at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Washington.
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