Best Golf Courses in Michigan
7 ranked courses in Michigan
Michigan has seven courses in this guide: four private, two public and one listed as a resort course, so visitors have more to book here than in most states. Crystal Downs Country Club in Frankfort, an Alister MacKenzie design with Perry Maxwell from 1929, ranks highest; it is private, with a formal dress code and a no-phone policy for guests. Oakland Hills Country Club at Bloomfield Hills is Donald Ross's 1918 course, later modified by Robert Trent Jones and restored by Gil Hanse in 2021, and it has hosted the US Open, the PGA Championship and the Ryder Cup. Kingsley Club in Kingsley, Mike DeVries's 2001 course, is private. The Dunes Club at New Buffalo is a private nine-hole links designed by Dick Nugent and renovated by Jim Urbina. The bookable courses are Arcadia Bluffs South in Arcadia, Dana Fry and Jason Straka's 2018 design with lodging on the resort; the Weiskopf course at Forest Dunes in Roscommon, Tom Weiskopf's 2002 design; and The Cardinal at Saint John's in Plymouth, Raymond Hearn's 2024 course, which needs no membership or resort stay.
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Top 7 Best Golf Courses in Michigan
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About Golf Courses in Michigan
Oakland Hills and The Cardinal are in Metro Detroit. Crystal Downs, Arcadia Bluffs and Kingsley are in the northwest of the Lower Peninsula, Forest Dunes is at Roscommon in the middle of it, and The Dunes Club sits in the southwest corner.
- Ranked courses
- 7
- Course styles
- parkland 4 · links 3
- Access
- private 4 · public 2 · resort 1
- Opened
- 1918–2024
- Playable without membership
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