Courses, Travel & Tee Times

Otsego Club s dramatic Tribute course

One of Gaylord, Michigan's newest and most dramatic golf courses, the Tribute is a recent addition to the Otsego Club & Resort, one of northern Michigan's oldest golf resorts. Built on rugged terrain in the Sturgeon River Valley, the course is a roller coaster of elevation changes with few flat spots.

Bring your thinking cap to Doak s Black Forest Golf Course in Gaylord

Tired of the lack of a challenge provided by most of Michigan's resort golf courses? Thankfully there's Black Forest, Wilderness Valley's newer big, bad brother and the subject of rave reviews nationally. With dark,tree-lined holes and small, difficult green complexes, designer Tom Doak isn't out to do you any favors.

The Crown s as close to metro golf as you get in Traverse City

For a town with more than 100 courses about a half-hour's drive from Traverse City, there aren't too many worthy tracks just a hop, skip and jump away. But located just minutes from downtown Traverse City lies The Crown Golf Course, an overachieving property with a family, blue-collar atmosphere to it.

New course at A Ga Ming Golf Club is bigger and badder but don t dismiss the original

It takes some guts to open up a new course in northern Michigan, an area with an oversaturated golf market - more than 100 tracks within an hour of Traverse City and a struggling economy. But A-Ga-Ming Golf Club in Kewadin is flying in the face of stiff competition. Last spring the club added a second course, the Sundance, to complement its original 18 holes, named the Torch.

Otsego Club Classic Course Gaylord

Facing stiff competition from modern Gaylord golf courses, the Classic Course, one of the area's oldest tracks, could use a little more attention from its Otsego Club overseers. Still, the dramatic closing four make a strong, exciting end to the round.