Summer golf in Northern Michigan is idyllic: sun-swept 80-degree days, with courses styled by the game’s top architects, spread across terrain from the shores of Lake Michigan to hillside vistas at places such as Boyne Mountain and The Highlands that look like something out of the Berkshires or Rockies.īOYNE Golf is at the center of the region’s golf scene, with its three resorts and 10 courses (including the three configurations at 27-hole Bay Harbor Golf Club ). These days the region is known as “America’s Summer Golf Capital,” which doesn’t seem the least bit audacious given the options created by Kircher, his children (who inherited their father’s go-for-broke style), and the developers who followed his lead. He had ignited a golf building boom that reshaped the Northern Michigan landscape. Kircher wasn’t just creating more reasons for his guests to return and summer jobs for his employees. to build The Heather, which opened in 1966 at his second resort, The Highlands at Harbor Springs. A few years later, he recruited Robert Trent Jones Sr. “Guys like Everett are from a generation that thinks differently,” Kircher’s friend Warren Miller, known for his popular ski films, said upon news of Kircher’s passing in 2002.īy the time SI ran that story in 1961, Kircher had already opened his first golf course, a nine-holer, in a bid to turn his Northern Michigan resort into a year-round destination. Top 50 Modern Courses in Great Britain & IrelandĮvan Schiller Photography, 15th Hole at Crooked Tree.
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