Michigan Golf Journal February 2021

13 February 2021 www.michigangolfjournal.com country’s best in variation and beauty for playing golf on one piece of property. The blend is Michigan’s only Gold Medal for Overall Excellence ever handed out by GOLF Magazine during the 20-plus-year history of the award. Bay Harbor Golf Club is the cornerstone of BOYNE’s 10 premier golf courses spanning three resorts in northern Michigan – “America’s Summer Golf Capital.” Another distinction is if golfers head to notorious resorts like Pebble Beach, Pinehurst, or Kohler, to play the top courses at those locations requires an overnight stay onsite. A BOYNE Golf experience does not – yet if you chose to, the most luxurious of Boyne Resort’s accommodation offerings is the Waterfront Inn at Bay Harbor, named a Top Resort and Top Spa by readers of Conde Nast Traveler . Across the street and a wonderful part of the Bay Harbor golf experience is Crooked Tree Golf Club . Perched on the bluffs above Lake Michigan, the front nine is carved from an old orchard while the back nine offers wonderful views of Little Traverse Bay. The other two resorts within the BOYNE experience include the original Boyne Mountain property to the south of Petoskey, and Boyne Highlands to the north. From its furthest edges, the three distinct resorts are less than a 45-minute drive of each other. Boyne Highlands: This furthest-north Boyne location was named by Golf. com readers as the best U.S. Golf Resort for Value. In addition to the 9-hole under-the-lights Cuff Link course, the Highlands also features activities like zip lines, biking trails, horse- back riding and the Young American’s Dinner Theatre. Boyne Highlands is the home of the original destination course that began the overall Northern Michigan golf resort evolution in 1966 – The Heather – home to several historic Michigan Amateur Championships, including in 2020, a year after it was voted National Golf Course of the Year. After opening The Heather, Boyne Highlands added three more 18-hole courses. The approach to the 11th hole, a lengthy par 5, begins a three-hole ascent on the Arthur Hills Course that culminates with a magnificent view from the Continues on next page >> The Hills, Boyne Highlands