Celebrating Bucks Run
Text: R. Collins Bucks Run Golf Club in Mount Pleasant, Michigan was built on the site of an old gravel mining operation that had sat vacant for the majority of the 1990s. As of July 1st, 2020, the premier golf…
The fairway destination
Text: Brenna Buckwald Only one thing can make spending a day playing golf even better— staying the night in a resort and waking up the next day ready to do it all over again. Luckily, for people who love to…
Crafted: the wine series
Text: R. Collins For decades, Michigan has been generating a name for itself as a premier wine-making destination within the Midwest and broader United States, with about 208 wineries dotting its landscapes by 2017, according to the Michigan Craft Beverage…
American Dunes
Text: R.J. Weick Tucked behind the windswept, towering sand dunes on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Ottawa County, Michigan, where pines have become as characteristic as the maple, beech, and hemlock before them, a golf club is undergoing…
The clubhouse vernacular
Text: R.J. Weick “Golf course design, as I’ve learned through many of the designers we’ve worked with, is its own very specific, emotional, technical, and spiritual journey, and an environmental and landscape one,” said James. D. Nordlie, AIA, president of…
Great Escapes
Text: Tyler Fleser Golf is a sort of meditation—a melding of nature and mankind’s ambition. Will Rogers, the famous American actor, columnist, and renowned socialite once said, “I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like…
The Links at Bowen Lake
Text: Greg Johnson Be prepared to make more than one visit to The Links at Bowen Lake in Gowen, Michigan. Vicki Korson, who with her husband Wayne Korson, became owner about two years ago of the West Michigan-based, 18-hole public…
This spring, Make It Benzie
Text: Greg Johnson Golf as well as hiking, biking, mushroom hunting, bird watching, and wildflower viewing are just some of the things to explore in Benzie County—and it’s never too early to begin spring plans for a visit to the…
From birdies to blackjack
Golf and gambling go hand-in-hand, or perhaps grip-to-one-arm-bandit. Every shot is a gamble, every Nassau is a speculation, and every pull of the handle is a possibility. Will it yield a birdie, an ace, or the Big Jackpot? By Janina…
The whole fairway package
Discover some of the resort destinations in Michigan offering more than a tee time. By Janina Parrott Jacobs Michigan’s designation as the second-most popular state for golf by a national golf lifestyle publication might have non-golfers contemplating its relevance. Truth…