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/

OTSEGO CLUB & RESORT-GAYLORD
Home of the 54 Hole Blowout Golf Package
Web: http://otsegoclub.com

THE MAJESTIC AT LAKE WALDEN
Web: http://www.majesticgolf.com/
Video: http://www.michigangolfer.tv/2005shows/majestic/

SHANTY CREEK RESORT & CLUB
Golf Packages http://www.shantycreek.com/golf/package.html
Web:http://www.shantycreek.com/golf/package.html

Edited by Art McCafferty-Producer/Publisher, GLSP
http://glsp.com

Michigan Golf News - Weekly Circulation Newsletter and Web- 7,087 subscribers*
*As of April 30, 2005-Sawmill Software

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MGN ON THE ROAD Jackson-The Grande GC
Lake Orion-Indianwood Golf and Country Club
Okemos-College Field Club
Sturgis-Klinger Lake CC
Elkart, Indiana- Sims Oak Hill and Christiana Creek CC
__/ A HORSE, A HORSE, A BUNKER FOR A HORSE
__/ ALBANESE & LUTZKE FIRM CHOSEN FOR NEW CHIP-IN'S ISLAND RESORT & CASINO COURSE
__/ MICHIGAN GOLFER TELEVISION
The Natural Golf Course -with Jerry Matthews & Larry Bowden
The Majestic at Lake Walden- with Jerry Matthews & Bill Fountain
__/ GARLAND TO LAUNCH MAJOR JUNIOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP THIS JULY
__/ EWGA LAUNCHES NEW CHAPTER IN GRAND RAPIDS THIS WEEK
__/ MICHIGAN TALK RADIO ON GOLF-
PAUL ALBANESE COMMENTS ON NEW CHIP-IN'S ISLAND RESORT & CASINO COURSE
Fridays at 10:40 AM to 11:00 AM on MLive
Streaming Audio http://www.mlive.com/talkradio/
__/ BOOK REVIEWS
__/ TURFS UP-SUPER GAM "BRING YOUR WEDGE DAY"-EAGLE EYE GOLF COURSE
__/ JAMES ESCAMILLA AND MIKE DALY SHOOT HOLE IN ONES AT SCHUSS MOUNTAIN GC
__/ MACATAWA LEGENDS GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB SET FOR JUNE OPENING IN HOLLAND
__/ ITS THE NEW EQUIPMENT, STUPID
__/ MICHIGAN GOLFER MAGAZINE-SPRING ISSUE
__/ SUMMER TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE-KELLY HILL
__/ MICHIGAN GOLF RADIO
__/ ARCHIVES-MICHIGAN GOLFER
__/ CALENDAR OF GOLF EVENTS
__/ TOURNAMENT SCHEDULES

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MGN ON THE ROAD

Jackson- The Grande Golf Club
The construction on 27 South is almost done and then the gateway to The Grande will be totally open for all to see. The housing dotting the course has increased, as has the beauty of the course. This Ray Hearn and Dozer Doug design has captured the essence of great golf in the Jackson area.

Lake Orion-Indianwood Golf and Country Club
The 2005 edition of the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame is now history as Stan Aldridge, Jerry Matthews, Joan Garety and Jeff Roth joined the ranks. Larry Adderley hosted the affair and a fine affair it was. There were a number of Hall of Famers in the crowd and a sprinkling of media.

Stan Aldridge, owner of Indianwood Golf and Country Club, was a reluctant honoree. He thought others were more worthy. However, Aldridge is really one of the main reasons Michigan has a Hall. "Jim Dewling deserves a lot of the credit for getting me involved with the Hall of Fame project. And it has been a pleasure for us to host the Hall since it started," said Aldridge. MGTV will have a show later on in the year of the ceremony.

http://michigan-golf-foundation.com

Okemos-College Field Club
The College Field Club in Okemos has been fashioned after the MacKenzie School of Design. Tom Mead, who is a MacKenzian, restored the MacKenzie masterpiece at Frankfort, Crystal Downs and is now a principal in Old Course Design, the Dublin, Ohio based golf architectural firm.

College Field is receiving some play, but for the most part is still waiting for completion of the infrastructure that will connect all the home sites. The course is just down the road from the MSU Forest Akers 36-hole complex.

Sturgis-Klinger Lake Country Club
There are a couple of courses on U.S. 12 that invite your to drift from the road to plush fairways. Rustic Glen in Saline is one of the inviting courses and the other is Klinger Lake CC. Klinger Lake was built in 1920 with a second nine designed in 1930 by Morey Wells. It is a plush country club and a fabulous beauty.

Pat Hagerty is the PGA Professional, at the club. http://wwww.klingerlakecc.com

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Elkhart/Middlebury-Indiana
MGN brushed up against a little history this past week by visiting Oak Hill GC, designed by William Diddel and Christiana Creek CC designed by W.B. Langford. Both were on hand when the American Society of Golf Course Architects (ASGCA) held its first annual meeting in Pinehurst on Dec. 5, 1947.

The original signatories included, Diddle and Langford and also, William P. Bell, Robert White, Donald Ross, Robert Bruce Harris, Stanley Thompson, William F. Gordon, Robert Trent Jones, Sr. and J.B. McGovern. Three others who were part of that first group but did not attend, were Perry Maxwell, Jack Daray and Robert "Red" Lawrence.

Christiana Creek CC
Designed by William Langford in 1917, the course is currently having some of its bunkers redone by the architectural firm of Albanese and Lutzke. (See related story, "A Horse, a horse, a bunker for a horse.") They are returning the bunkers to the style that was created in Lanford's day.

Sims Oak Hills Golf Course-Middlebury
Brad Smith is the PGA professional and Bryan Weller, the assistant professional at Oak Hills. Sims, a long time golf owner and advocate, gave the course to the city. It is a William Diddel design. Diddel did three courses in Michigan, the original Shanty Creek, the Classic at Otsego and Forest Lake in Bloomfield Hills.

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A HORSE, A HORSE, A BUNKER FOR A HORSE
Things got a tad medieval this past week as a team of Belgian horses was dropped off at Christiana Creek Golf Course to help the design team of Albanese and Lutzke created two new bunkers.

The idea came from Daniel Grassi, who is in charge of construction for the project. He mentioned to Paul Albanese that maybe these bunkers created by W.B. Langford in 1917, should be recreated by the same method as they were then, by horses and scrappers. Albanese was blown away, when Grassi said they had a team of horses and the game was on.

It was a hoot, as the two horses recreated bunkers on both the 9th and 18th holes. The Michigan Golfer will bring you the show next week and you can see the fun for yourself.

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ALBANESE AND LUTZKE FIRM CHOSEN FOR NEW CHIP-IN'S ISLAND RESORT & CASINO
Paul Albanese and Chris Lutzke http://www.golf-designs.com/ have been named as the design firm for a new golf course at the Chip-In's Island Resort and Casino. This was a prize for the taking and the competition was heavy, with Mike Husby Golf, Peter Jacobsen and Jerry Matthew's Natural Course Design all in the hunt with Albanese and Lutzke.

Construction is set to begin in July with the opening scheduled in 2007. Chip In's resort is located in Harris, just a few miles Northwest of Escanaba.

Paul Albanese and Chris Lutzke have known each other since 1993 when they were both associates with renowned Michigan golf course architect Jerry Matthews

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GARLAND TO LAUNCH MAJOR JUNIOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP THIS JULY
Garland Resort has announced that it will host the Garland Junior Championship, July 18-20. The 54-hole stroke play tournament is open to all junior boy and girl golfers between 12-18 years old with an established handicap.

"Garland is extremely excited at the prospect of initiating a major national championship for juniors staged on our world class courses," said Barry Owens, Vice President at Garland. "The Garland Junior Championship will offer boys and girls between 12 and 18 years of age an exceptional opportunity to compete in a premier golf tournament as well as partake in our many resort activities. We expect great things from the competition."

For more information on the tournament or Garland Resort, please visit http://www.GarlandJuniorChampionship.com call 1-877-442-7526.

Taken and edited from a Legendary Marketing release.

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EWGA LAUNCHES NEW CHAPTER IN GRAND RAPIDS
The Executive Women's Golf Association (EWGA), an organization formed to provide opportunities for women to learn, play and enjoy the game of golf for business and for life, is holding an organizational meeting to introduce residents of the Greater Grand Rapids Area to the EWGA.  This informational meeting is scheduled for Monday, May 23 at 6:30 pm at Boulder Creek Golf Club, 5750 Brewer Avenue N.E., Belmont, MI.  For directions to the meeting, please call the course at (616) 363-1330.

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BOOK REVIEWS:
"THE SECRET OF GOLF" by George Peper
"The Secret of Golf", presents 47 innovative, groundbreaking and sometimes outlandish ways to conquer the world's most vexing game. Peper selects the best from golf's rich instructional history. Teacher greats Vardon, Cotton, Hogan, Nelson, Armour, Merrins and Pelz are featured. George Peper, editor of Golf Magazine for a quarter of a century has assembled his instructional A team and feels that this is the last instructional golf book you will need. That is of course, until the next one comes along.

We leave you with this Henry Cotton quote from the book, "All that counts in golf is to find the back of the ball squarely with the middle of the clubface. Any style or method will do and if it enables a player to strike the ball hard, squarely and consistently, then it is a good swing, no matter how it may depart from the classical."

http://workman.com $18.95, 26.95 CAN

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"THE PROOF IS IN THE PUTTING -Jerry Korte and Gary D'Amato
A Review by Terry Moore

First, I want to recommend an excellent instructional book entitled "The Proof is in the Putting" by Jerry Korte and Gary D'Amato, both of who are from Wisconsin. Korte is a well-regarded putting authority and teacher at the Morningstar Golfers Club in Waukesha, WI. Teacher to the some of top players in his state including the 2004 U.S. Senior Amateur champion Mark Bemowski, Korte is also the inventor of the "Yes! Putter" and the "Yes! Stroke Putting and Swing Guide." D'Amato is the longtime and award-winning golf writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Now admittedly, I don't read that many instructional books. I find most to be just a rehash of time-honored principles and observations. But knowing and admiring D'Amato as a writer and as a person, I looked forward to reading this book. I wasn't disappointed; in fact, I found "The Proof" to be one of best short game books I've ever read. And yes, I read the whole book, smart aleck.

The book is available for $24.95 and you can order this book by emailing Jerry Korte at yesputter@aol.com

This review has been edited for length.

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"GOLF GOLDEN AGE" by Rand Jerris with photographs by George S. Pietzcker
This book has been published to honor the 75th anniversary of Bobby Jones winning the famed Grand Slam. The book is a collector must, as it brings forth some extraordinary photography from George S. Pietzcker. Pietzcker has captured the famed golfers of the '10s, '20s, and Œ30s. The text provides both a full-page photo and a full page of text to make it a pleasant and fast read. Many of your will remember the likes of Chick Evans, Walter Hagen, Alex Smith, Harry Vardon, Tommy Armour, Leo Diegel, Gene Sarazen, Macdonald Smith, Henry Picard, Craig Wood and our own Horton Smith. There are many more golfers profiled in this delightful look at the past.

National Geographic Books and USGA publish the book
To order the book $27 U.S./$37 Canada
http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/shopping/search/searchresultsmain.jsp?fresh=1&searchType=advanced&iMainCat=0&iSubCat=0&attribute14=0&attribute15=0&attribute16=0&RS=1&keyword=golf+golden+age

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TURFS UP-SUPER GAM "BRING YOUR WEDGE DAY"-EAGLE EYE GOLF COURSE
If you would like to learn more about the current issues surrounding bunker maintenance and budgeting, plan to attend Super GAM Day at the MSU Hancock Center and Eagle Eye on June 13, 2005. The GAM, MTF, GDGCSA, WMGCSA, NMTMA, MMGCSA and MSU Turf Team have planned an educational and enjoyable day.

Clubs can submit a threesome to play with its Superintendent. The cost of $125 per person includes continental breakfast, materials, lunch, golf, cart, buffet dinner, and prizes.

Agenda
9:00 a.m. Registration at MSU Hancock Center
9:30-10:30 a.m. Tour of the Turfgrass Research Center
10:45-11:15 a.m. Register for golf / Driving range open
11:45 a.m. Shotgun start (box lunch on cart)
4:30-6:00 p.m. Cocktails, buffet dinner and prizes
Info at http:/gam.org

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STUDENTS OF CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN GOLF INSTRUCTORS POST HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Crystal Mountain Golf School instructors Brad Dean and Adam Schriber have had four of their students post major career accomplishments within the last two weeks:

Candie Kung finished second in the LPGA Tour event, the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship Hosted by Nancy Lopez. Ryan Brehm,Michigan State University, was just named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Anthony Kim, a sophomore at Oklahoma, was just named the Big 12 Player of the Year. Korey Mahoney finished the collegiate season with Eastern Michigan University's all-time low scoring record of 72.42, breaking the record previously held by Ed Maunder (72.6).

The Crystal Mountain Golf Schools offers over 90 instructional schools, camps and clinics, including weekend, midweek and women-only schools at its two locations: Crystal Mountain Resort and Fox Hills Golf & Banquet Center in Plymouth.

Taken and edited from a release from Joan O'Neil of Crystal Mountain Resort.

http://crystalmountain.com

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JAMES ESCAMILLA AND MIKE DALY SHOOT HOLE IN ONES AT SCHUSS MOUNTAIN GC
James Escamilla of Kalamazoo, Michigan drove an ace (hole-in-one) with a 5-wood on hole #9 (189 yards) at Shanty Creek’s Schuss Mountain Golf Club. James has been playing for 30 years and this is the first time he has shot a hole-in-one!

Mike Daly of Niles, Michigan drove an ace (hole-in-one) with a 4 iron on hole #9 (184 yards) at Shanty Creek’s Schuss Mountain Golf Club. Mike has been playing for 20 years and this is his second hole-in-one.

Thanks and a Tip of the Tam to Lindsey Southwell for the info http://shantycreek.com

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MACATAWA LEGENDS GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB SET FOR JUNE OPENING IN HOLLAND
Ray Hearn was hired to design the Macatawa Legends Golf & Country Club in Holland, Michigan, a college town on Lake Michigan west of Grand Rapids. Shortly after that, he packed up his family and set forth for his new home and a unique golf industry role.

Developer Cal Prins made it clear that Hearn was his choice to oversee the design of Macatawa Legends Golf & Country Club. But he also wanted his designer to be in charge of the operation as the general manager and membership director of Macatawa Legends, which will eventually be surrounded by as many as 700 residential sites.

Macatawa Legends will open to its members June 15 with conditions that Hearn says are the best he's ever seen for one of his course openings.

Taken and edited from an All About Golf release

http://www.macatawalegends.com/

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IT'S THE NEW EQUIPMENT, STUPID
In the first 22 years of the Champions Tour there was only one 60 shot, that by Isao Aoki in 1997. In the last three-plus seasons, five others have followed suit; Walter Morgan, Bruce Fleisher, Jim Thorpe, Tom Purtzer and Craig Stadler.

The field scoring average last week at the Blue Angels Classic was a Champions Tour record 68.175. It topped the old mark, set in this event in 1997, by more than a stroke (69.442). In 1997, the field recorded four eagles and 684 birdies while this year's group tallied 22 eagles and 927 birdies.

Taken and edited from a Champions Tour release

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SUMMER TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Kelly Hill tells us all we need to know about the upcoming tournament schedule with his timely article in the Spring MG
http://www.michigangolfer.com/may05/

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MICHIGAN GOLFER MAGAZINE-SPRING ISSUE
http://www.michigangolfer.com/may05/ Arnold Palmer: 50 Years of Michigan Memories
by L'anse Bannon
50 years ago, Arnold Palmer won the U.S. Amateur at the Country Club of Detroit. Our story and video recount the impact he has had on Michigan, including his golf course designs, tournament wins, friendship with Walter Hagen and the celebration of his 50 years with a special Michigan Golfer Television Show, " Arnold Palmer's Turning Point Invitational".
Web: http://www.michigangolfer.com/may05/
Video:http://michigangolfer.tv/2005shows/palmer/

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ARCHIVES-MICHIGAN GOLFER
Michigan Golfer Magazine-1996-Present
http://www.michigangolfer.com/#pastissues
Michigan Golf News-2003-Present
http://www.michigangolfer.com/news.html
Michigan Golfer Television-2001-Present
http://michigangolfer.tv/archives.html

Edited by Art McCafferty-Producer/Publisher, GLSP
http://glsp.com

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MICHIGAN GOLF RADIO
Wednesdays at 1:35 pm with Tom Gibson on CHOK 1070, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
http://chok.com
Fridays at 10:40 am with Shawn Peterson on the Michigan Talk Radio Network
http://www.michigantalkradio.net/
Fridays at 10:40 to 11:00 on MLive
http://www.mlive.com/talkradio/

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MICHIGAN GOLF CALENDAR 2005
http://michigangolfer.com/calendar.html

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MICHIGAN GOLF NEWS ASSOCIATION SUBSCRIBERS

Golf Association of Michigan
http://www.gam.org
Michigan Golf Course Owners Association
http://mgcoa.org
Michigan Publinx
http://www.mipublinx.com
Michigan PGA
http://michigan.pga.com
Michigan Women's Golf Association, MWGA
http://www.mwgolf.org
Michigan State Amateur Golf Association
Dick Loring-skillplay@aol.com
mailto:skillplay@aol.com
Michigan Golf Foundation
http://michigan-golf-foundation.co
Upper Peninsula Golf Association
http://upga.org

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

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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
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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