All Things Michigan Golf

[3_Jack_Par]

Played this year:

A-Ga-Ming - Sundance

Beacon Hill

Boyne Highlands - Arthur Hills (3)

Boyne Highlands - Heather

Boyne Highlands - Ross Memorial (3)

Calderone (2)

Eagle Eye

Forest Dunes (2)

Fox Hills - Golden Fox

Hawk Hollow

Huntmore (4)

Kingsley Club (in 35+ mph winds yesterday)

Leslie Park

Lyon Oaks

Majestic

Northville Hills

Pheasant Run (3)

Pierce Lake

Stonebridge (3)

Shanty Creek - Summit

Shanty Creek - Cedar River

Shanty Creek - The Legend

Tanglewood (2)

Timber Trace (2)

Westwynd

 

 

And tomorrow -- Arcadia Bluffs!:clapping:

[OneBowTie]

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[quote name='Greenie' timestamp='1283626257' post='2679176']
WTG Michigan....Thread on !
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Thanks. I can see this going to the next level with some kind of Ryder Cup style Michigan WRX'ers vs. Maryland WRX'ers. Now that would be a riot! [b]GAME ON![/b]
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Good luck with the thread!! Hey many of us Marylanders have been known to travel for a game...so you never know about that Rder Cup style match.

I've never played in Michigan although I know there is some top notch golf there. The closest I've been was on the 17th hole of Whistling Straits one time, my caddie told me I could get in a boat head straight across the lake rent a car and there were some fantastic courses within 30 minutes or so. I think he was being serious...if I had somehow found a boat
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65 miles across to Leland, Mich. if I remember correctly. Did it in 2005, 2006, and 08'

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Nice boat.... what is that a Tiara???

I didn't notice it hanging out at the dealership when I visited
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You missed the picture in my office. 2005 Tiara 32 Open, currently for sale BTW. U want it?
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Tiara's really are gems...... very nice boat..... I'd love to have it.....but I am sure you will sell it long before I'd be able to raise the funds!


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you cant see the boat until next fall...we are taking a 3 day trip to kohler!!
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next fall????? you going on a 3 month or 3 day getaway.......

Should be a great trip...... have fun and I'm putting the over/under number at 84

[odshot68]

you cant see the boat until next fall...we are taking a 3 day trip to kohler!!
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next fall????? you going on a 3 month or 3 day getaway.......

Should be a great trip...... have fun and I'm putting the over/under number at 84



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I will take that bet. How much we talking onebowtie?? LOL ez money!!

[Openwater22]

Cruisers and TJ,
Nice lists!

[Shaank0]

Hawk Meadows- Howell
Willowbrook- Byron
Glenbrier- Perry
Oak lane - Webberville

pretty much all trashy courses but there cheap.

[OneBowTie]

next fall????? you going on a 3 month or 3 day getaway.......

Should be a great trip...... have fun and I'm putting the over/under number at 84



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I will take that bet. How much we talking onebowtie?? LOL ez money!!
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Ok..... I am assuming from other posts of yours- you are definitely playing the TIPS....... and I am assuming when you say Kohler, you are playing Black Wolf Run, not some local pitch and putt in that area......

So big boy..... I am still putting the number at 84 at Black Wolf Run- from the tips..... and I'm betting OVER....... what say you???????????

I trust whatever you post as your score........ so speak now or take your puddle craft across the pond and have a great weekend at Kohler

[BILL12x]

I grew up in Oakland County, but sadly didn't play golf until we moved to Florida, especially since my parents were members at Oakland Hills!! I'd love to play there now. I lived off of Long Lake Rd. near Wabeek CC. Is that still there? They had a small Tour event there in the '70's.

[Openwater22]

The Quest club championship today and tomorrow. I'll be playing hard, need the driver to behave.

[tigerfan23]

Good Luck! I crapped the bed in my Club Championship. 2 strokes behind going into the last round and shot 84!

[3_Jack_Par]

My first Arcadia Bluffs experience has come and gone (sorry you couldn't work it out to join me, Jeff), and here's a few of my impressions:
[list][*]First, it's hands down the most beautiful setting for a golf course that I've ever seen. Being right next to the lake, the views are breathtaking. Thankfully, it was a nice day -- a bit of wind, but not howling like it had been the past couple of days.[*]However, as a test of golf, it still rates behind Forest Dunes and Kingsley Club for me among courses I've played in the state. Those courses have a better variety of holes.[*]If I had been hitting my irons decently, I think I could have scored very well -- the par 5s are all reachable in two for me (I only actually hit the green on one of them, but came up just short with a 5 iron on #1, hit a 4 iron over the green on #3, hit the green with a 4-hybrid on #5, came up just short with a mis-hit 3 wood on #11, and was just in front with a 3 wood on that slammed into the bank in front of the green on #15.[*]odshot68/Bill has mentioned the greens being very tricky, and I found that to be the case. On a destination type of course like this where there's not a lot of people who get to play it terribly often to learn the intricacies and nuances of the greens, I don't like that they require so much local knowledge. There were probably a half dozen putts i had that broke the complete opposite direction that I read. Now, I'm not exactly the best at reading greens, but it happened numerous times to me and my playing partners. Maybe I'm just bitter because I putted off the front of the 9th green...[*]Great course, and I'll definitely play it again, though I doubt I'd be willing to shell out the $180 regular rate.[/list]

[Openwater22]

Too bad KG78, wish it ended differently, but thats golf. Lots of fun and competitive golf on the schedule for me........YEAH!

Club Championship this weekend, 3 day 3 man scramble with over 40K in skins and prize money on the line next weekend. Not a typo!

Odshot68's 3 day south west Michigan trip the following weekend and a 3 day to Gailes with my son and son-in-law October 8,9,10

One more thing before heading to the course....[b]GO SPARTY![/b]

[odshot68]

we are in need of a 4th on a golf trip to southern michigan in 2 weeks...if anyone is interested let me know.

[J.R.]

Little Traverse Bay (4)
Boyne Alpine (4)
Boyne Monument
Black Lake
Blackheath
Leslie Park
Birmingham Country Club (2)
Pontiac Country Club (2)
Rackham (3)

[3_Jack_Par]

A few pics from Kingsley and Arcadia:
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[3_Jack_Par]

Anyone in the Southeast Michigan area played Dunham Hills lately? I'm looking for somewhere to play this weekend, and they have several $35 tee times available on golfnow.com, and I'm wondering if the discounted rate is because the greens was aerated recently, or if it's in rough shape or something.

[odshot68]

Great pics Rich! Arcadia is visually stunning but the greens are excessive IMO. Kingsley is great, love the front 9. It has the best opening hole in the state. Love that place. By the way, did you hit the bottle on the 18th tee or enjoy the cherry chicken salad sandwich at Kingsley?

[tigerfan23]

Beautiful Tiger Jr.

[3_Jack_Par]

[quote name='odshot68' timestamp='1284505822' post='2696879']
Great pics Rich! Arcadia is visually stunning but the greens are excessive IMO. Kingsley is great, love the front 9. It has the best opening hole in the state. Love that place. By the way, did you hit the bottle on the 18th tee or enjoy the cherry chicken salad sandwich at Kingsley?

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The bottle was empty! The guy who caddied for me told me about it and I went to get it out of the box, and I almost cried. Playing in the kind of gale I was battling, some whiskey was definitely what the doctor ordered. I loved the course, though, even if the wind absolutely beat me up. The first played pretty much into the wind, and the last was full jet engine right in my face. I hit a 6 iron from 130 yards and still came up short (it was a punch, but still!)

[odshot68]

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[quote name='odshot68' timestamp='1284505822' post='2696879']
Great pics Rich! Arcadia is visually stunning but the greens are excessive IMO. Kingsley is great, love the front 9. It has the best opening hole in the state. Love that place. By the way, did you hit the bottle on the 18th tee or enjoy the cherry chicken salad sandwich at Kingsley?

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The bottle was empty! The guy who caddied for me told me about it and I went to get it out of the box, and I almost cried. Playing in the kind of gale I was battling, some whiskey was definitely what the doctor ordered. I loved the course, though, even if the wind absolutely beat me up. The first played pretty much into the wind, and the last was full jet engine right in my face. I hit a 6 iron from 130 yards and still came up short (it was a punch, but still!)
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I assumed you played the tips..were you able to get down the hill on the huge par 5..thats a poke. 18 is a bit$$ its always dead into the wind..I remember hitting a full 5 iron from 155 yards twice to 3 putt on the difficult green. By the way, how was 9...what a crazy tough shot to hit the green in the right spot. There are some cool holes there..I may be in the minority but I prefer it over Arcadia.

[BadBilly429]

Crystal Mountain-both courses.
Shepperds Hollow all 27
Indianwood- old course (today first time ever)
Plum Hollow CC
Huntmore
Devils Ridge
Boulder Pointe
Lakes Of Taylor
Bay Pointe
The Jackal- lol
Yarrow
All Courses at Gull Lake, east, west, Stone Hedge N and S, and Bedford Valley

These are more or less the nicer places places I have played this year. Live in Oakland County and Pontiac Country Club is home course.

Going back to Arcadia Bluffs for 2nd time first weekend in October

Also must throw in on last years trip to Crystal Mountain a friend of mine whos Grandfather is a member at Crystal Downs got us out on Sunday of Labor Day Weekend, unbeleiveable and will never ever forget that round!

[odshot68]

[quote name='BadBilly429' timestamp='1284515059' post='2697188']
Crystal Mountain-both courses.
Shepperds Hollow all 27
Indianwood- old course (today first time ever)
Plum Hollow CC
Huntmore
Devils Ridge
Boulder Pointe
Lakes Of Taylor
Bay Pointe
The Jackal- lol
Yarrow
All Courses at Gull Lake, east, west, Stone Hedge N and S, and Bedford Valley

These are more or less the nicer places places I have played this year. Live in Oakland County and Pontiac Country Club is home course.

Going back to Arcadia Bluffs for 2nd time first weekend in October

Also must throw in on last years trip to Crystal Mountain a friend of mine whos Grandfather is a member at Crystal Downs got us out on Sunday of Labor Day Weekend, unbeleiveable and will never ever forget that round!
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Crystal Downs...thats incredible. I hope one day to experience it. I hear Indianwood is great too. Did you play the old or new course?

[BadBilly429]

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[quote name='BadBilly429' timestamp='1284515059' post='2697188']
Crystal Mountain-both courses.
Shepperds Hollow all 27
Indianwood- old course (today first time ever)
Plum Hollow CC
Huntmore
Devils Ridge
Boulder Pointe
Lakes Of Taylor
Bay Pointe
The Jackal- lol
Yarrow
All Courses at Gull Lake, east, west, Stone Hedge N and S, and Bedford Valley

These are more or less the nicer places places I have played this year. Live in Oakland County and Pontiac Country Club is home course.

Going back to Arcadia Bluffs for 2nd time first weekend in October

Also must throw in on last years trip to Crystal Mountain a friend of mine whos Grandfather is a member at Crystal Downs got us out on Sunday of Labor Day Weekend, unbeleiveable and will never ever forget that round!
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Crystal Downs...thats incredible. I hope one day to experience it. I hear Indianwood is great too. Did you play the old or new course?

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We played the old course, we were scheduled to play the new course, but the starter switched us at the last minute. We won a gift cert in an outing to play there that was donated by a member, and it said new course only on a Tuesday. Id love to go back and play the new course but from what I hear and the people I talk too, the new course is much harder, tighter, alot of forced carries, and the pro there says the members hate it and never play it.........Crystal Downs was a once in a lifetime oppurtunity, so glad we got to capitalize on it, the fairways there are like the greens I putt on most days!

[3_Jack_Par]

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Great pics Rich! Arcadia is visually stunning but the greens are excessive IMO. Kingsley is great, love the front 9. It has the best opening hole in the state. Love that place. By the way, did you hit the bottle on the 18th tee or enjoy the cherry chicken salad sandwich at Kingsley?

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The bottle was empty! The guy who caddied for me told me about it and I went to get it out of the box, and I almost cried. Playing in the kind of gale I was battling, some whiskey was definitely what the doctor ordered. I loved the course, though, even if the wind absolutely beat me up. The first played pretty much into the wind, and the last was full jet engine right in my face. I hit a 6 iron from 130 yards and still came up short (it was a punch, but still!)
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I assumed you played the tips..were you able to get down the hill on the huge par 5..thats a poke. 18 is a bit$$ its always dead into the wind..I remember hitting a full 5 iron from 155 yards twice to 3 putt on the difficult green. By the way, how was 9...what a crazy tough shot to hit the green in the right spot. There are some cool holes there..I may be in the minority but I prefer it over Arcadia.
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Yeah, I did play the tips. It's not a terribly long course, but the wind made some holes real beasts. I did clear the hill on #17 -- I had a touch of help from the wind, but I did really lay into that tee shot.
I actually birdied 9. It was playing from the tee to the right of the 8th green. And got a little lucky catching the slope have it roll toward the pin. Made about a 12-footer.
I'd really like another shot at that short par 5 on the back. 290 yards or something, and I made 8!
I loved the course -- I'm trying to decide if it can knock off Forest Dunes as my favorite track in the state, but I think it's a tiny bit behind. It's right up there, though. So much so that I was trying to justify the cost of a national membership in my head. That, or chucking it all to move to TC for the season to caddy, so I can play it regularly...

[Carolina Golfer 2]

Good job on the thread guys...you've got it going pretty well keeep it up. Now just throw in a little friend UM and MSU smack talk, club ho tales and you'll be good to go.

As for Arcadia Bluffs, I've never been to Micighan to golf but if I ever do I had planned on making it part of the trip somehow. It just looks stunning.

[Dustin]

This year has been a real dream year as far as golf goes. In the past 12 months I've played:

Private:

Barton Hills CC
Oakland Hills CC South & North
Franklin Hills CC (AWESOME BTW)
Inverness Club (in Ohio, but close enough)
Crystal Downs (in a 40mph wind...crazy, but amazing)
U of Michigan
Radrick Farms

Public:
Arcadia
Lyon Oaks
Tullymore
St. Ives
Bucks Run
and a few others


When i moved to Michigan from FL, i thought golf would be awful up here in the North, but Michigan has some of the best golf I've seen in the nation, and I've played a lot of great golf. Shortish season, but I'd put Michigan golf up again any other state and actually greatly prefer it to golf in the south.

[Openwater22]

Rich,

You need to join Josh, Bill and I at Calderone and The Grande on sept. 26th. jackson is close to you.

[Openwater22]

[quote name='Carolina Golfer 2' timestamp='1284556748' post='2697800']
Good job on the thread guys...you've got it going pretty well keeep it up. Now just throw in a little friend UM and MSU smack talk, club ho tales and you'll be good to go.

As for Arcadia Bluffs, I've never been to Micighan to golf but if I ever do I had planned on making it part of the trip somehow. It just looks stunning.
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CG2,

Here's some smack talk 4 ya.' May 2011, our 12 best against your 12 best. Ryder Cup style. Neutral site halfway. Did I hear someone say they can get us on Firestone! BTW, what's a Terrapin?

Dustin, nice list. I want to play in your foursome.

[Openwater22]

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[quote name='Carolina Golfer 2' timestamp='1284556748' post='2697800']
Good job on the thread guys...you've got it going pretty well keeep it up. Now just throw in a little friend UM and MSU smack talk, club ho tales and you'll be good to go.

As for Arcadia Bluffs, I've never been to Micighan to golf but if I ever do I had planned on making it part of the trip somehow. It just looks stunning.
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CG2,

Here's some smack talk 4 ya.' May 2011, our 12 best against your 12 best. Ryder Cup style. Neutral site halfway. Did I hear someone say they can get us on Firestone! BTW, what's a Terrapin?

Dustin, nice list. I want to play in your foursome.


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Edit; OneBowTie, we'd invite you Tarheels but you'd prolly no show! LOL

[Carolina Golfer 2]

[quote name='openwater32' timestamp='1284562696' post='2697962']
[quote name='Carolina Golfer 2' timestamp='1284556748' post='2697800']
Good job on the thread guys...you've got it going pretty well keeep it up. Now just throw in a little friend UM and MSU smack talk, club ho tales and you'll be good to go.

As for Arcadia Bluffs, I've never been to Micighan to golf but if I ever do I had planned on making it part of the trip somehow. It just looks stunning.
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CG2,

Here's some smack talk 4 ya.' May 2011, our 12 best against your 12 best. Ryder Cup style. Neutral site halfway. Did I hear someone say they can get us on Firestone! BTW, what's a Terrapin?

Dustin, nice list. I want to play in your foursome.


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Openwater... That does sound intriquing and interesting. We might have to settle for ANY 12 on ourside as opposed to the 12 best. I don't know about Firestone, but I know a muni in Dayton I could probably get us on

Funny you mention the Terrapin...I was playing with a buddy on Sunday, probably the best player in our group but he doesn't post much SHTERP and he has a Turtle Head cover, I kept slamming the cart cover down on top of his head and he told me to be nice to Timmy the Turtle. I said I thought his name was Testudo. He said "that's just a stupid name, I call mine Timmy" Still don't know what a Terripan is, but I can't speak there are so many disputes what a Tar Heel is as well

Hey, wait a minue isn't Easy from the Detroit area, maybe he could hook us up with a course in between that's wants to host the event in exchange for some promotion on the site.

As for Dustins list...we have a member on our side Priceless who has a very similar list of all our local must plays. Last time I asked him to join us he said he couldn't "He HAD to go play Caves Valley" which is one of the most private courses in the DC/Maryland area.

[3_Jack_Par]

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Rich,

You need to join Josh, Bill and I at Calderone and The Grande on sept. 26th. jackson is close to you.


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Wish I could, but I'll be up in the Torch Lake area that weekend -- Playing Sundance @ A-Ga-Ming and Hawk's Eye on Saturday and Cedar River on Sunday. If you want to do something in early October, I might be able to sneak away for a day...