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February 24, 2006 Vol. 6, No. 8

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BAY MILLS RESORT AND CASINO/WILD BLUFF GOLF COURSE
Video: 2005 Bay Mills Open Players Tournament Preview
-with Rob Lussenhof
http: //www.michigangolfer.tv/2005shows/baymillsopenpreview/ DESIGN YOUR OWN IRELAND GOLFING GETAWAY
Click on - http://www.sullivangolf.ie/quoteform.html
Sullivan Golf & Travel ­ The Ireland Golf Travel Specialist

IN GAYLORD, GOLF THE NATURAL: A JERRY MATTHEWS COURSE
Video: http://michigangolfer.tv/2005shows/natural/
Golf Packages http://golfthenatural.com

MICHIGAN GOLF SHOW, ROCK FINANCIAL SHOWPLACE, NOVI, MARCH 10-12
Web: http://michigangolfshow.com
http://rockfinancialshowcase.com< br> Video: http://www. michigangolfer.tv/2005shows/michigangolfshow/

OTSEGO CLUB & RESORT-GAYLORD
Ski Packages
Web: http://otsegoclub.com/cwt.php
Video: http://michigangolfer.tv/miskier/season_1/show9/otsegoqt.html

SHANTY CREEK RESORT & CLUB
Ski Packages
Web: http://www.shantycreek.com/snowsports/earlybuy.html
Video: http://michigangolfer.tv/miskier/season_4/schuss/index.html

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__/ AND THE ENVELOPE PLEASE... THE 2006 MICHIGAN GOLF HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES ARE...
__/ MGN ON THE ROAD
Lansing-Lansing Golf Show
Natural Course Design
__/ THIS WEEK ON MG TV
Golf League Championship with Bart Lower and Ken Kapcia
Jack Berry: Golfing Ireland III
__/ FOR THE GOLFERS THAT HAVE EVERYTHING...GOLF SONGS
__/ GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY TO HOST 2007 NCAA DIVISION II
__/ THE WALRUS TO JOIN NORTH, MICKELSON AND COUPLES AT ING PAR-3 SHOOTOUT
__/ BIG FORE OFFERS PREMIUM PACKAGE
__/ GOLF INDUSTRY SHOW PLAYS TO POSITIVE REVIEWS
__/ JACK NICKLAUS AND TOM WATSON TO GO HEAD-TO-HEAD IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
__/ MICHIGAN PGA - 2006 SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS
__/ WILLOW WOOD COUNTRY CLUB SELLING AT AUCTION BY ORDER OF SECURED CREDITOR
__/ TOM DOAK OPENS STONE EAGLE GOLF CLUB IN CALIFORNIA
__/ MG TV STATS
__/ WINTER EDITION OF THE MICHIGAN GOLFER MAGAZINE-NOW ONLINE
__/ 19TH HOLE-MAKES YOU THINK
__/ 2006 MICHIGAN GOLF CALENDAR
__/ ASSOCIATION LINKS
__/ MICHIGAN GOLFER ONLINE RESOURCES

Edited by Art McCafferty-Producer/Publisher, GLSP

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AND THE ENVELOPE PLEASE... THE 2006 MICHIGAN GOLF HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES ARE...
The inductees are Raymond Bolo, a 37-year head club professional, Thomas Chisholm, a national leader in joining golf with the environment, John Grace, a decorated amateur golfer, John Morse, a PGA Tour winner, and Jeanne Myers, a pioneer rules official, will be inducted at Indianwood on May 21, the MGHF announced today.

Bolo, 73, was the head professional at Western Golf and Country Club in the Detroit area for 37 years, teaching the game, building it through junior golf and making time to play at a high level, too. Bolo, retired and living in South Carolina, was a four-time Michigan PGA Seniors champion, scored an international senior professional division win in Scotland's International Four Ball Tournament in 1983, and was also part of a winning pro-am team in the celebrated AT & T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in '83.

Bloomfield's Chisholm, the retired vice-president of Eaton Corp., served on the USGA's Executive Committee from 1990 to '96, was president of the Golf Association of Michigan in 1989-90 and has worked as a rules official in the Masters Tournament at Augusta National in Augusta, Ga. In recent years, his many service projects in the game of golf have largely focused on promoting the research, education and improvement of playing conditions. He has worked in those areas with the USGA since 1990, and has worked with the GAM in similar capacities since 1975.

Grace, 57, made his mark in Michigan as one of the nation's top amateur players when he made this state his home between 1960 and '74. He was runner-up in the U.S. Amateur to Jerry Pate in '74, won three GAM Championships between 1968 and '73 and claimed the Michigan Amateur title in 1971. A former Walker Cup team member, he has qualified for 35 USGA championships in his career, including 19 U.S. Amateur Championships. He resides in his native Texas, and won that state's Amateur title in 1998, the same year he won the Texas Senior Open. He has played professional senior golf around the world in recent years.

Morse, a Marshall native, has traveled the world in professional golf, won the 1995 Hawaiian Open on the PGA Tour but perhaps made the most news back home in 1996 when he finished fourth and played among the leaders through the U.S. Open hosted by Oakland Hills Country Club. He eventually finished fourth in his role as a home-state favorite. The 48-year-old former University of Michigan golf team captain, 1978 Michigan Amateur champion and 1980 Big Ten champion and All-America selection, played on the Florida Tour, the Australasian Tour, the European Tour and the Nike Tour before his PGA Tour career started in 1994.

Myers, 66 and a Farmington Hills resident, is currently the first woman president of the Golf Association of Michigan, and was that organization's first woman Board of Governor in 1991. She is best known for laying down the rules on a national and state level, however. The author of the USGA's "Equitable Stroke Control" procedure, which went into effect in 1991 and is still in use, has worked as a rules official for 13 U.S. Women's Opens and U.S. Women's Amateurs, as well as three U.S. Opens (men) and several NCAA championships. She is also a leader in rules education. Recently, she was named the USA women's team captain for the World Amateur Team Championships in October.

For more information, e-mail llarkin@michigan-golf-foundation.com or call (248) 719-0650.

*Note-See Jack Berry's interviews with Hal of Famers, Elaine Crosby, Dan Pohl, Jerry Matthews, Joan Garety and Stan Aldridge at http://michigangolfer.tv/2005shows/ghf/

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MGN ON THE ROAD
Lansing Golf Show-
Be there or be square as the latest installment of the Lansing Golf Show gets underway this today. The show opens at 2:00 and features:

PGA Professional Instruction in the Pro Hitting Net Area
$10, 000 Putting Contest
$25, 000 Chipping Challenge
Closest to the Pin / Longest Drive Contests

East Lansing-
We stopped by to catch Jerry Matthews, before he headed south for a couple of months, to grab some audio for our upcoming Television show on Buck's Run. It still boggles the mind as to how many courses Jerry and his father W. Bruce Matthews have designed in Michigan. Their latest work will be with the marriage of the Hickory Hollow and Sycamore Hills golf courses in the Macomb area. Matthews' Natural Course Design will take the existing 45 holes and reduce them to a new 18 while adding a healthy number of residential properties to the site.

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THIS WEEK ON MG TV
JACK BERRY: GOLFING IRELAND
Jack Berry takes us to Northern Ireland in the third edition of this six part series. Irish courses that Berry highlights include Portstewart, Royal Portrush, Royal County Down and Ballyliffin.

GOLF LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW WITH BART LOWER
Bart Lower who really did get a big break on Big Break II and IV, took time from his headlining duties at the WMGS to interview Ken Kapcia, representative of Handicomp, one of the sponsors of the Golf League Championship. Ken brings us up to date with one of the hottest tournament ideas in years. This year's tournament will be held at The Majestic at Lake Walden in Hartland on September 30.

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FOR THE GOLFERS THAT HAVE EVERYTHING...GOLF SONGS
Royce Aube says he is a real golf a-holic and his songs prove it.

Rolling Rock Blues
The Sandbagger Song
My "A" Game
Slow Play
Crush It
Wild Golfin Man
I'm On The Senior Tour
Whack Oh
I Like Golf
Fairways Greens One Putts
And everybody's favorite
Playing in the Fog

http://www.royceobgolfsongs.com/

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Upcoming Shows

Jim and Pat Healey's XTREME Golf Trip: 50 States, D.C. and 10 Provinces in 61 Days
March 31

Buck's Run Golf Club
April 7

Daly Planet at Niagara Falls
May 5

The Heather Golf Club-with Robert Trent Jones, Everett Kircher and Jack Berry
June 16

The Michigan Amateur Championship at the Boyne Highlands Heather Golf Club
June 30

Old Channel Trail-Three Generations of Golf Course Design
July 7

The Native American Cup
August 11

Golf League Championship Series
October 6

MG TV
http://michigangolfer.tv

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THE WALRUS TO JOIN NORTH, MICKELSON AND COUPLES AT THE ING PAR-3 SHOOTOUT
The purse for the ING Par-3 Shootout is $540,000 and an additional $1 million bonus is available for every hole-in-one. Lee Trevino has collected that bonus once -- in 2001 when he aced the 138-yard 7th hole. Each hole is worth $20,000, with a $10,000 bonus for the player hitting his shot closest to the pin. If the hole is not won, the money carries over to the next hole. If the hole is won, the player doesn¹t get the money unless he validates it on the next hole by either winning or tying the low score. No validation is necessary on playoff holes.

Tickets, priced at $50 for the two days, or $30 for each day, will go on sale April 1 and may be purchased online at http://www.treetops.com or by calling (989) 732-6711, ext. 2499.

Taken and edited from a Resort and Golf Marketing release. The full text is online at http://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:1137.203492436/rid:7aad757c52ad82c09683993cf2ea7129

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BIG FORE OFFERS PREMIUM PACKAGE
Hidden River Golf & Casting Club, Black Lake Golf Club, Little Traverse Bay Golf Club and Charlevoix Country Club and accommodations partners Trout Creek Condominium Resort and Hamlet Village Resort Condominiums are offering some premium golf packages. Darin Philport, Partner/VP of Operations at Hidden River and co-founder (along with Hidden River owner Roger Wilson) of the package says; ³This is the most complete golf package in Northern Michigan, we have designed it for those who are accustomed to playing at the finest clubs in lower Michigan and surrounding states. The great thing about the package is that it offers superior conditions and service, yet, we are still very competitive with our pricing due to the cooperation of the Big Fore partners.²

http://www.bigfore.com for further information.

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GOLF INDUSTRY SHOW PLAYS TO POSITIVE REVIEWS
Not even the prospects of being relocated twice could dampen the spirits of organizers, attendees and exhibitors of the 2006 Golf Industry Show, conducted Feb. 9-11 in Atlanta, Ga. Originally slated for New Orleans, show hosts were forced to condense two years of planning into five months as the event was initially moved to Houston and then ultimately to Atlanta. The inaugural Golf Industry Show was conducted last year in Orlando.

Presented by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America and the National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA), the Golf Industry Show is an innovative trade show that features unparalleled networking opportunities and hands-on access to golf course and facility management solutions for professional members of the golf industry. The Club Managers Association of America (CMAA) will join as a presenting partner in 2007. Also participating as supporting organizations are the Golf Course Builders Association of America (GCBAA), the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) and the National Golf Foundation (NGF). For more, visit http://www.golfindustryshow.com.

Attendance for the event was 18,900, down from the 22,723 that were in Orlando last year, but up from the 18,146 that were in Atlanta in 2003 for the show¹s predecessor, the GCSAA International Golf Course Conference and Show. There were 6,650 qualified buyers as opposed to the 8,154 that were in Orlando. The largest attendee category decline for Atlanta as compared to Orlando were guest registrations, which fell from 3,031 to 1,212. The show follows a geographic rotation of the east (Orlando) ­ central (New Orleans) ­ west (Anaheim/San Diego) corridors. A total of 756 companies exhibited at Atlanta, covering 244,200 square feet of exhibition space. That compares to 826 exhibitors and 270,760 square feet in Orlando. The 2003 show in Atlanta attracted 701 exhibitors covering 245,200 square feet.

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JACK NICKLAUS AND TOM WATSON TO GO HEAD-TO-HEAD IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
The folks from P.E.I. continue to court Michigan golfers to visit their wonderful island just filled with golf courses. This year, they are bringing in some heavy hitters to give them some additional cache, Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson. As part of the brand new Canadian professional golf event, Making the Connection® Legends of Golf from June 19-20, will Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson will go head-to-head at Dundarave Golf Course at The Rodd Brudenell River Resort.

As one of Canada¹s premier golf destinations, Prince Edward Island will play official host to the new event, which is a partnership between IMG Canada, Tourism PEI and Making the Connection. Making the Connection is a program dedicated to the ongoing education of Canadians about the dangers of high cholesterol, and to encouraging Canadians to take action to control high cholesterol to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke.

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MICHIGAN PGA 2006 SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS
The envelopes have been opened at the PGA headquarters in Bath and the winners are:

Assistant Professional
Jeremy Lathwell, Red Run Golf Club
Bill Strausbaugh Award
Mark Black, The Fortress
Golf Professional of the Year
Dave Kendall, Kendall Academy of Golf
Junior Golf Leader
Ian Ziska, Manistee National Golf & Resort
Merchandiser-Private
Dick Stewart, Kalamazoo Country Club
Merchandiser-Public
Gary Smithson, Thousand Oaks Golf Club
Merchandiser-Resort
Rob Fuhrman, Bay Harbor Golf Club
PGA Horton Smith
Mark Wilson, Watermark Country Club (formerly Forest Hills GC)
Presidents Plaque
Ina Davis, Crystal Mountain Resort
Teacher of the Year
Bob Percey, Meadowbrook Country Club
http://michigan.pga.com

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WILLOW WOOD COUNTRY CLUB SELLING AT AUCTION BY ORDER OF SECURED CREDITOR
Willow Wood Country Club is selling at Auction! It has been open for only 7 years; this 18-hole public golf course will be sold at Auction on Tuesday, March 21 at 1 pm, by order of secured creditor! It is a beautiful 18-hole public course located in Portland, Michigan. A high quality course (built in 1998) with a practice facility, clubhouse, banquet facilities and liquor license. Also all golf carts, maintenance equipment, etcŠwill be sold. Also sells as one package.

Info: http://www.1800lastbid.com or call Miedema Auctioneering, Inc. at 1-800-LAST-BID.

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MG TV STATS
Top 15 Shows on MG TV 2005 Schedule
Show Viewers
The Loon Golf Club 12,838
Michigan Golf Hall of Fame 8,647
Bay Mills Open 5,678
Ryder Cup Celebrations 4,761
Native American Cup 2,632
Michigan Open 2,382
Timberstone Golf Course 2,068
Jim Engh and True North 2,043
Jack Berry-Golfing Ireland 1,897
The Majestic at Lake Walden 1,889
Treetops/Pepsi Fall Charity Invitational 1,878
West Michigan Golf Show Preview 1,549
League Championship Series 1,252
The Natural Golf Course 1,239
Ben Davis: Michigan Golf Legend 1,229

Top 10 Shows on MG TV in 2005
Golf Packages (2003) 31,141
GAM Senior Women's Amateur (2001) 15,518
The Loon Golf Club (2005) 12,838
Golf Getaways (2003) 9,348
Michigan Golf Hall of Fame (2005) 8,647
Golf Real Estate (2003) 8,609
Ryder Cup Preview (2004) 7,469
Golf in Trumbull County (2003) 6,663
Bay Mills Open (2005) 5,678
Walter Hagen (2003) 5,354

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GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY TO HOST 2007 NCAA DIVISION II
The Meadows Golf Club at Grand Valley State University has been named the host venue for the 2007 NCAA Division II Men¹s Golf Championship. The event will mark the sixth NCAA Division II national championship to be held at the Michael Hurdzan-designed course. The 2006 Division II Women¹s Championship will be held this May at The Meadows, the fourth time that event has been held in Allendale.

http://www.gvsu.edu/meadows/
Taken and edited from an All About Golf release.

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TOM DOAK OPENS STONE EAGLE GOLF CLUB IN CALIFORNIA
Renaissance Golf Design and Tom Doak have announced the opening of their newest course, Stone Eagle GC in California.

Related story

http://www.pga.com/news/travel/southwest/stoneeagle120105.cfm

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19TH HOLE-MAKES YOU THINK
If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?
Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing?
Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?
Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"?
Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected?
Why is "phonics" not spelled the way it sounds?
If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?
How come abbreviated is such a long word?
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Thanks and a Tip of the Tam to Jack Minzey for these head scratchers.

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WINTER EDITION OF THE MICHIGAN GOLFER MAGAZINE-NOW ONLINE
Winter Issue 2005 Vol.23, No.4

Table of Contents
Page Article
4 Golfing Ireland, by Jason Deegan
http://www.michigangolfer.com/win05-06/win0106_4-11.pdf
Sullivan Golf & Travel
12 Michigan's Century-old Golf Courses, by Kelly Hill and Art McCafferty
http://www.michigangolfer.com/win05-06/win0106_12-17.pdf
18 Michigan Golf History, 2001-2005, by Art McCafferty
http://www.michigangolfer.com/win05-06/win0106_18-22.pdf
23 Michigan Golfer's Top 10 Lists for 2005
http://www.michigangolfer.com/win05-06/win0106_23-26.pdf
27 Michigan Golfer TV Schedule
http://www.michigangolfer.com/win05-06/win0106_27.pdf
28 Books for the Holidays
http://www.michigangolfer.com/win05-06/win0106_28-29.pdf
30 Slice of Life, by Terry Moore
http://www.michigangolfer.com/win05-06/win0106_30-31.pdf

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MICHIGAN TOURNAMENTS
http://michigangolfer. com/tournaments.html

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2006 MICHIGAN GOLF CALENDAR
http://michigangolfer.com/calendar.html" ASSOCIATION LINKS
American Association of Golf Course Architects
http://asgca.org
Golf Association of Michigan
http://www.gam.org/
Golf Course Superintendents Association of America
http://www.gcsaa.org
Michigan Section PGA
http://www.Michigan.PGA.com
Michigan Golf Course Owners Association
http://mgcoa.org
Michigan High School Athletic Association
http://www.mhsaa.com/
Michigan Interscholastic Golf Coaches Association
http://migca.com
Michigan Publinx Seniors Golf Association
http://mpsga.net
National Golf Course Owners Association
http://ngcoa.org
National Golf Foundation
http://ngf.org
National High School Golf Coaches Association
http://www.nhsgca.org

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