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Brian Morrow has worked the clubhouse golf counter at The Lakes course for the Loon Golf Resort for the last six summers and loves it. “It’s the best retirement job I could possibly come up with,” said the 56-year-old retired postmaster. “I meet nice people and work in a beautiful…
No matter how it looks outside, golf will return to the Gaylord area, and quickly like tulips in May. To help you prepare for golf and that spring-away trip you want to take to the Gaylord Golf Mecca, here are five tips: Grab a calendar, call your golf regulars and…
The Gaylord Golf Mecca, the Gaylord Area Convention and Tourism Bureau and the Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City were honored recently with the Governor’s Award for Innovative Tourism Collaboration for marketing efforts that are bringing golfers from Texas to Michigan. Paul Beachnau, executive director of the Mecca, called the…
It’s Masters Tournament week when the game of golf, especially to those of us in Michigan and the Midwest, emerges again, like our clubs from storage. The golf world returns either in person or via television to Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, a true Mecca of the game….
It is amazing how one word can tilt perception and cause confusion leading to missed opportunities. Gaylord Country Club is changing its name to Gaylord Golf Club to dismiss any and all notions that it is a private facility. It’s public. Admit it, some of you went driving past the…
Hey buddy, it’s never too early to starting planning, and the tag buddy trip is not meant to exclude anyone. We’re talking golf with friends, family, coworkers or a combination. I’ve done them all and enjoyed them all in the Gaylord Golf Mecca, which is truly America’s Summer Golf Mecca….
I started working with the Gaylord Golf Mecca marketing group last May. It was not the first time we had met. As a longtime golf writer at a newspaper, and most recently my media services business, the Mecca has always been known as a formidable part of the golf scene…
GAYLORD GOLF MECCA CELEBRATES 30 YEARS: The Gaylord Golf Mecca was started as a cooperative marketing effort for the incredible collection of golf in what is clearly the beating heart of Northern Michigan in 1997. The Mecca marched onto the destination golf scene with classic courses, new modern masterpieces and…
Near You! Got that? In February and March many of the members of the Gaylord Golf Mecca – which includes 15 championship courses in one destination featuring multiple flagship resorts and 11 package partners – make the pilgrimage to several golf shows. They march to those shows prepared to help…
When Alex Dombrowski was four-years-old his family moved to a home near the 15th hole on the Gaylord Country Club golf course, and golf soon became a central passion and direction in his life. “As a kid I would just hit bag after bag of range balls, and Dad would…
