A recent MGM trip led to playing a reversible course and playing hickory-shafted clubs. And read about the feat of two holes-in-one on the same day in this issue’s Editor’s Choice Awards. Can the best of golf in Northern Michigan be tackled in a single trip in under a week? That was the mentality Midwest Golfing Magazine’s Glen Turk and I and GolfMichigan.com’s Brian Weis took to a recent trip just before the end of summer. Here is where our dizzying journey – with two arriving by Lake Michigan ferry and one by driving over the mighty Mackinac Bridge -…
Author: Matt Tevsh
Matt Tevsh
Matt Tevsh has been a contributor to Midwest Golfing Magazine since 2004.
The Bill Coore/Ben Crenshaw layout in central Wisconsin opened all 18 holes Sept. 1. The single-lane dirt road seemingly leads to nowhere. And the intersecting dirt roads only make it feel like one of those corn mazes. Except this man-made labyrinth is made of young pine trees. There is little to no signage to indicate the destination is near. About a mile into the dusty voyage comes the realization that there has to be another way. Thankfully, there is. A quick re-route and some help from the friendly staff at adjacent Lake Arrowhead (a fine 36-hole golf facility in its…
This may come as breaking news to some: Lawsonia will be hosting the U.S. Open. No, not that U.S. Open. The U.S. Hickory Open. September 23-25, the Society of Hickory Golfers will descend on Green Lake, Wisconsin, to hold its annual championship. For three days, participants wearing knickers, ties, and newsboy caps will be wielding wooden-shafted clubs and using balls fashioned pre-1935. The tourney – and Society for that matter – pays tribute to a bygone era in golf which makes the Links Course at Lawsonia a fitting host since its design is a true treasure for public golf in…