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

Golf Course Design & Architecture: Magic Kingdoms

Don't be fooled by the natural look of compelling recent course designs: Mother Nature had help

By Ron Whitten

Published Feb. 19, 2008

Keywords Golf World | design | architecture | dirt pile designs | ron whitten | bayonne | castle | st. andrews | mclay kidd | arcadia bluffs | eagles nest | kingsbarn | cassique | twisted dune | monarch dunes

Golf Architecture: Dirt Pile Designs

Don't be fooled by the natural look of compelling recent course designs: Mother Nature had help

Published Feb. 19, 2008

Keywords Golf World | design | architecture | dirt pile designs | ron whitten | bayonne | castle | st. andrews | mclay kidd | arcadia bluffs | eagles nest | kingsbarn | cassique | twisted dune | monarch dunes