Blog: Deeds and Weeds

Michigan Development Heads to Bankruptcy Court

Macatawa Legends, a $25 million residential golf development in Holland Township, Mich., heads to bankruptcy court this week, a victim (it seems) of a recesson-choked real estate market and the moribund national economy. The Holland...

By Geoff Russell

Published Jul. 14, 2009

Keywords Holland Township | Macatawa Legends Golf | Michigan | bankruptcy

Blog: Deeds and Weeds

A Different Kind of Golf School

There are lots of resorts in this country on the verge of going bankrupt -- and no shortage of ideas about what to do with the land and the assets of those resorts if and...

Published Feb. 05, 2009

Keywords Bankruptcy | Current Affairs | Economy | Michigan | foreclosure

Blog: Deeds and Weeds

'We'll Need A Receipt For Our Taxes'

Joe and Patsie Gibbs came up with an unusual way to get rid of an unwanted golf course. The owners of Chocolay Downs Golf Club in Marquette, Mich., recently donated the 18-hole course to...

Published Jan. 25, 2009

Keywords Gifts | Marquette | Michigan | NMU Wildcats | Universities

Courses & Travel

Long drives: Michigan muscle

Forced carries -- and forced induction -- with the Shelby GT500

By Matthew Rudy

Published Jan. 30, 2008

Keywords Long drives: Michigan muscle | Matt Rudy

Blog: Editors' Blog

Falling for No. 16 in Michigan

They let the editor in charge of the Editors' Blog out once in a while and last week was one of those whiles. Your letters were dwindling and it was time for field work; hence...

By Bob Carney

Published Oct. 26, 2009

Keywords Barton Hills | Crystal Downs | Mackenzie | Michigan golf | Ross

Blog: Where's Matty G?

Northern Michigan revisited

After reading my recent Away Game for Michigan, Kevin Whitmore, the director of golf at True North Golf Club in Harbor Springs, MI, wrote to alert me to a course I may have missed.Matt,  Hello,...

By Sam Weinman

Published Oct. 22, 2009

Keywords Away Game | Forest Dunes | Matt Ginella | Michigan | arcadia bluffs

Courses & Travel

Away Game: Michigan

If you're looking for affordable golf from June through September -- with weather so fantastic that locals consider it their payback for those difficult Midwestern winters -- don't look anywhere other than Michigan.

By Matt Ginella

Published Aug. 17, 2009

Keywords golf travel | Away Game | Michigan | Matt Ginella | Arcadia Bluffs | Forest Dunes

Blog: Deeds and Weeds

Lansing Club Struggles

The venerable Country Club of Lansing, which opened 101 years ago in Michigan's capital, has lost roughly 20 percent of its membership in the past couple of seasons and is now in foreclosure, WILX-TV is...

By Peter Finch

Published Apr. 16, 2009

Keywords Country Club of Lansing | Michigan | National City Bank | declining membership | economy | foreclosure

Blog: Deeds and Weeds

High Pointe "Won't Open" in 2009

Another golf club bites the dust (apparently): The Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle reports here that the High Pointe GC in Williamsburg will not open in 2009. The story is really just a confirmation of the...

Published Mar. 08, 2009

Keywords Current Affairs | High Pointe GC | Michigan | Tom Doak

Blog: Deeds and Weeds

Bay City Blues

Golf courses in money trouble are about as common as range balls these days, though it's unusual --  and not a little sad -- to see one like Bay City Country Club in a...

Published Jan. 21, 2009

Keywords Bay City | Michigan | declining membership | foreclosure | private club

Magazine

2007-2008 Best in State Rankings: Michigan

We rank the top venues in Michigan

Published Jan. 14, 2009

Keywords America's 100 Greatest Public Courses | state-by-state rankings | Michigan

DeBruin: Spartan Conditions

Michigan State's Jack Newman fends off Colorado heat, 'name' opponents to win U.S. Amateur Public Links

By Lynn DeBruin

Published Jul. 22, 2008

Keywords lynn debruin | michigan state | jack newman | colorado | us amateur