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Top Ten Reasons Black Bear Golf Course Continues to Improve

By Greg Johnson – In 2024, Black Bear Golf Course was voted the most improved course in the country by the GolfPass online audience. In 2025, the improvements are continuing under now second-year owners, Olivia and Rob Smith. The Gaylord Golf Mecca checked in with Olivia this week and compiled…

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25 YEARS AND COUNTING

Black Lake Golf Club Offers the Best of Everything By Greg Johnson – Black Lake Golf Club in Onaway, one of the 17 premier golf courses in the Gaylord Golf Mecca cooperative marketing group, has been offering the best of everything for 25 years. We could tell you everything (even…

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The Gaylord Golf Mecca: Perfect Place to Celebrate National Golf Month

By Greg Johnson – August has been National Golf Month across the country since the PGA of America came up with the idea over 30 years ago in 1993, and the Gaylord Golf Mecca’s wonderful combination of incredible summer weather and world-class golf fits perfectly every August with such a…

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Treetops Resort Golfer Makes Two Hole-in-Ones in One Round

Mike Robertson, in 25 years of playing golf, had never had a hole-in-one. The Grand Rapids native had come close a few times but had started to believe it might never happen for him. That changed dramatically last month. He was one of 16 golfers playing in a group outing…

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Consistent Great Golf at Lakes of the North

By Greg Johnson – When Lakes of the North Golf Course head golf professional Rob Diroff says things are business as usual, he means business is great and only getting better. That’s the way things are at the Mancelona area course, an especially popular course for groups that visit the…

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Indian River Golf Club Adding Short Game Area

Indian River Golf Club is building a short game area to go with their busy practice range. It’s the latest at the course that bills itself as the friendliest golf course in the north. “It’s something that happened organically because we had the very busy range and the big new…

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Golflight Savings Time

By Greg Johnson In the Gaylord Golf Mecca, we call it Golflight Savings Time instead of Daylight Savings Time. We are on the golf side of the Eastern Time Zone, which cutting to the chase means you can play golf until almost 10 p.m. on many summer nights. One of…

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The Pines Finds Silver Lining in Aftermath of Record Ice Storm

By Greg Johnson – The Pines Golf Course at Michaywe’ is ramping up for another busy season of offering affordable championship golf to all ages and skill levels in the heart of the Gaylord Golf Mecca. Beautiful green fairways beckon as they have for over 50 years in this stunning…

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Fishing the Gaylord Golf Mecca – Enjoy Our Green & Blue

There’s nothing quite like a Gaylord Golf Mecca getaway. Those late evenings with sherbet sunsets, gentle inland breezes and mild summer temperatures that allow for play at any hour of the day…top it all off with 17 phenomenal golf courses and we’re sold! So what is it that makes our area…

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Garland Lodge & Golf Resort Announces Grand Opening of The Sawyer

Garland Lodge & Golf Resort has announced the grand opening of The Sawyer, a brand-new 10-hole reversible short course set to open on June 13, 2025. This innovative course pays tribute to Northern Michigan’s illustrious lumbering heritage and marks a new chapter in the resort’s storied golf tradition. Garland’s story…

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