Boyne Golf Academy Adds Winner to Team of Instructors
By Greg Johnson PETOSKEY – One of Michigan winningest golf professionals ever, Michigan native Jeff Roth, has joined The Boyne Golf Academy team of instructors. “I have experienced up-close the Boyne golf operation and the Golf Academy over the years,…
Back to The Bear: Grand Traverse Resort and Spa to host 2018 Michigan Open
By Greg Johnson ACME – Grand Traverse Resort and Spa hosted the best golfers from Michigan in the storied Michigan Open Championship 28 times between 1981 and 2008, and in the last 25 of those years the battleground was The…
Topgolf Facility Coming to Michigan in Auburn Hills
AUBURN HILLS – Topgolf International, a sports entertainment company, has broken ground in Michigan on a 65,000 square-foot facility that will house over 100 climate-controlled enclosed hitting bays from which golfers will hit shots with golf clubs and microchipped balls…
Petoskey Area: creating rounds of memories
If you only take one golfing vacation this year, make it this one: Petoskey Area in the northwest, Lower Peninsula of Michigan. This is where golfing traditions are started, golfing stories are shared, and golfing memories are created to last…
Dusting the clubs
Text: Greg Johnson A Grand Rapids-based golf course is offering a new winter golf training program. People in Michigan are often quick to tuck their golf clubs away in the winter, but Gary Smithson, PGA Professional and director of Golf…
An estate, property on par with locale
Text: R.J. Weick To the perceptive eye, the nuances in a sense of place can be found in the architectural detailing in a neighborhood, the natural environment, or in the musical and lighting ambiance created in a small corner café.…
Snow kidding: planning this year’s golf outing
Text: Greg Johnson The snow may have begun to fall, but avid golfers look to the summer months to schedule 2018 great golf outings. The golf has season just ended, snow is falling, and the clubs have been put away.…
Grip one last trip
Text: Greg Johnson As the leaves begin to change, don’t fall for missed seasonal opportunities for golf in Michigan. Don’t put away those clubs just yet. In fact, seasoned golfers know there is often one more road trip still…
The essentials of aeration
Text: Greg Johnson Jack Thomasma, golf course superintendent at The Golf Club at Thornapple Pointe—also known as the course visible to automotive drivers on eastbound Interstate 96 as they approach Grand Rapids—joked the course always looks green from a distance.…
Burnished: leaves, harvest, and golf
Text: R.J. Weick While summer—that glorious season of warm sunlight and beckoning freshwater waves—holds the hearts of many, autumn is a season for poets. As the leaves begin to turn and crispness settles in the late afternoon air, there is…