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Butch Harmon Hosting 4th Annual Butch Harmon Showcase Benefiting Harmon’s Heroes Foundation The Loon Golf Resort announces that the games #1 golf instructor is coming to Gaylord Michigan this summer. Butch Harmon, the games leading golf instructor, and teacher to major champion Phil Mickelson, will host the 4th Annual Butch…
Jason Guss works with Golf Digest editors in evaluating equipment performance Gaylord, MI – Jason Guss, director of golf performance for the Rick Smith/Jason Guss Golf Academy at Treetops Resort in northern Michigan, was selected to be part of an advisory committee on equipment analysis for Golf Digest’s popular…
There is no Prettier Place for Fall Golf The Gaylord Golf Mecca turned 25 years old this year and one of the best kept secrets over the years is the fact that its one of the premier fall golf destinations anywhere in America. There is no prettier place for fall…
Wilderness Valley Golf Club and its nationally recognized Black Forest Golf Course on Gaylord’s west side is going back to the future. Founder, David Smith, who hired a young Tom Doak to design and build the Black Forest course is now back running the club. In 2004, Smith partnered with…
A Chronological Look A Chronological Look at the Top 25 Events in the History of the Gaylord Golf Mecca 1. 1986 – Robert Trent Jones Course opens as the hall of fame architect looks out over the par-3 6th hole and appropriately names the resort “Treetops”. 2. 1986 – Rick…
Treetops Resort Treetops Resort has brought back Jason Guss, a rising star PGA golf instructor, to team with the renowned Rick Smith in creating a new teaching academy. Smith, the resort’s managing partner, and one of the nation’s top golf coaches, said the Rick Smith Jason Guss Golf Academy will offer…
Four area courses named to Michigan’s top 20 GAYLORD, MI — The Gaylord Golf Mecca, known as America’s Summer Golf Mecca, has had four of its golf courses listed among Golfweek’s 2012 “Best You Can Play, State-by-State” rankings. These latest course accolade’s appeared in the March 19 issue of the…
Celebrating 25 Years! America’s Summer Golf Mecca celebrates its 25th birthday in 2012, twenty-five years of Gaylord hosting more than 3,600,000 golfers at Northern Michigan’s collection of outstanding courses, according to the Gaylord Convention and Visitors Bureau. Currently, that’s 265,000 in khakis, plaids, shorts and spikes annually. It’s the true…
Four courses also among the top 25 in Michigan Gaylord, MI – When it comes to premier summer golf destinations, few places are as beautiful with the quantity and quality of golf than northern Michigan’s Gaylord area. Known as America’s Summer Golf Mecca, the popular golfing area had two of…
Gaylord Golf Rounds Up in 2010 Gaylord, MI – The Gaylord golf courses enjoyed a positive year in 2010 with rounds increasing 4% from the previous year, according to the annual Gaylord Golf Mecca Rounds Report issued in January. For the first time in five years the area courses…
