Featured Michigan Golf Course Stories

While some travel to Wyoming or Texas to get a taste of the Western lifestyle, the Thoroughbred Golf Club is located closer to home, near the west coast of Michigan as part of the Double JJ Resort. While the resort itself is full of Western charm, the Thoroughbred offers nothing but upscale golf, and is known for its beauty and solitude.

The Thoroughbred Golf Club opened in 1993, with a meticulous design and layout by Arthur Hills to embrace and accentuate the rolling Michigan woods, wetlands, and lakes. The course offers 18 holes, which sprawl over 240 acres of rolling Michigan woods.

Jack Nicklaus, whose accolades as a golf course designer parallel a legendary career that includes a record 18 professional major championships, will join friends and fellow greats Johnny Miller, Arnold Palmer and Tom Watson on Aug. 10, 2010, to celebrate the grand opening of The Golf Club at Harbor Shores, a new 18-hole Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course.

The Harbor Shores Champions for Change Golf Challenge will feature the foursome competing in an 18-hole scramble skins format with rotating two-man teams.

Want to experience Michigan’s best golf resort and two of America’s best places to play? The Resorts of Tullymore & St. Ives, located 45 minutes northeast of Grand Rapids, is your destination.

A Bounty of Awards

Being named Michigan’s No. 1 Golf Resort by Golf World magazine’s 2010 Readers Choice Awards is the latest in a string of accolades Tullymore and St. Ives have been collecting for years. These two golf courses with their truly unique designs have earned 5-Star Ratings from Golf Digest magazine and have been listed among the Top 50 Courses in America by Golf for Women. In addition, Tullymore has repeat appearances on Golf Digest’s list of 100 Greatest Golf Courses in America and its list of the 15 Greatest Public & Resort Golf Courses in America for 2010.