Michigan Golf Journal October 2021

Bahle Farms: The Heart of Beautiful Leelanau County By Tom Lang New owner is the youngest in Michigan at age 25 Crosley Duckmann is like many Chicago-area natives whose family would venture north for many years to spend summers on the peaceful Leelanau peninsula that juts north from Traverse City. Duckmann, now at age 25, decided this summer he would stay in Michigan permanently. The driving force behind that decision was also like many avid golfers’ dream – potential ownership of a golf course. His young business career came to a crossroad this year and merged perfectly at a time the family owners of the Bahle Farms Golf Course were ready to sell, and Duckmann was ready to put his college studies in business information systems and accounting to good use in an environment he loved the most – golf and northern Michigan. “Every day we go to bed and say, ‘today was a good day,’ even if something goes wrong, we still feel that day Michigan Golf Journal Leelanau’s Gem