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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…
Tracy Allen and Sandy Mattingly laugh at the label “Golf Package Queens,” but they are the golf package gurus one wisely seeks when contemplating options for a pilgrimage to the Gaylord Golf Mecca. “If you are looking to do a package and stay in a non-traditional hotel or resort setting,…
Davis Tanis and Carl Arendsen, retired professors from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, have played over 15,000 holes of golf together, including all but 18 of the 261 holes that make up the 15 courses of the Gaylord Golf Mecca. “We haven’t played Indian River yet,” Tanis said. “I’m…
The final weeks of the golf season coincide with the amazing annual fall display of colors in the Gaylord Golf Mecca. It’s a daily happening for golfers on a Mecca course to look about and see the incredible collection of trees and think – this place must be something in…
GAYLORD – Kevin McKinley didn’t serve in the military. His father didn’t either. He had a few uncles who did, but McKinley, the director of golf and ski for Treetops Resort and current president of the Gaylord Golf Mecca marketing group, didn’t realize what serving in the military meant. “I…
GAYLORD – It was a birthday party golf outing for eight friends that beat the odds. Hole-in-one odds to be precise. On a recent Monday afternoon, eight friends went golfing at Michaywe’ Pines Golf Course located in the heart of the Gaylord Golf Mecca and obviously a great place to…
Pictured is Main St Market pan seared Alaskan halibut w/ citrus chive butter, au gratin potatoes, and asparagus. It was a recent summer Thursday evening and Main Street in Gaylord offered sensory overload in sounds of live music, the smell of a great variety of food and people watching. In the…
