Michigan Golf Journal December 2019

25 December 2019 www.michigangolfjournal.com modern-day novelist John Grisham) is the Memphis BBQ Company , named best BBQ restaurant in the state by Delish magazine, and where co-owner Melissa Cookston is the only female World Champion BBQ Pitmaster. Our group of 15 ordered two of the huge sample platters overflowing with brisket, chicken, ribs, pulled pork, sausage, incredible corn bread and more – and still couldn’t finish half of the food. The Delta Meat Market inside the brand- new Cotton House Hotel in Cleveland puts such large, thick cuts of meat on your plate you could bust a vein trying to finish it all. And before leaving town don’t pass up the rugged looking Airport Grocery (yes, despite the name it’s a restaurant bar) for some great country BBQ cooking. Golfing in the Delta: Playing golf in Mississippi’s northwest corner is a little more spread out than the find-a-golf-course-in-every-town luxury we are accustomed to in Michigan – but several nice green-grass choices are available, dotting the river basin, soil-rich countryside Tunica National Holes 18 and 1 Continues on next page >>