Michigan Golf Journal June 2019

The 4 th -generation Scott to work in the family business is Alex Scott, who is studying turfgrass management at Michigan State University and has worked at Sand Valley in Wisconsin and is currently at Gamble Sands in Washington for some serious hands-on golf experience to bring home to the family business. “He will become a bigger part of the business here,” said Jon Scott, his father and the third generation of the family to steer what started with 18 holes of golf in 1963 and has expanded to 108 golf holes in an award-winning full- service resort community with popular villas, restaurants and real-estate development.   “My grandpa, my dad, me – we’re really dirt guys, but we’ve always looked at the big business picture,” Jon Scott said. “We’re grooming another dirt guy. There is just some gene in us that loves golf and dirt. My kid loves working on a golf course, like I do, like my father did and grandpa did and a lot of others in the family, too.” Jon said the family has taken that love of golf and working on golf courses and coupled it with the capacity to continually reinvest. “We don’t take out, we push back in and make sure there is something for tomorrow,” he said. “We don’t just try to benefit from today. It’s been our family perspective over the years. Grandpa started it all. My father was an artist, and I don’t think gets enough Stoatin Brae Continues on page 34 >> 33 June 2019 www.michigangolfjournal.com