BOYNE Golf and The Highlands Awarded USA Today Newspaper’s 10BEST
Boyne Golf is one of North America's largest golf resort destinations and was recently recognized by USA Today readers as No. 1 among the 10BEST Golf Destinations in the U.S. for a golf getaway. In addition, The Highlands was ranked No. 2 in the 10BEST Golf Resort category.
After almost 60 years, Boyne now encompasses 11 courses and three resort properties. Guests can also be treated to premier lodging, the Inn at Bay Harbor, located along the scenic shores of Lake Michigan; beautifully-updated Mountain Grand Lodge and Chalet Edelweiss at Boyne Mountain, and the Main Lodge at The Highlands, which has been transformed into a high-end boutique hotel reminiscent of an English country estate with Scottish Highlands charm.
Everett Kircher, who founded Boyne Resorts in 1947 by acquiring 40 acres of land with a modest ski hill for $1, has since become North America's largest family-owned golf and ski company. A former Michigan state senator said as he accepted $1 from Kircher for the land … “Anybody damn fool enough to want to build a ski hill, well … I’ll give you this property.”
The Bay Harbor Golf Club, designed by Arthur Hills, offers 27 holes with the award-winning Links/Quarry and Preserve courses. It features a unique combination of open links along the Lake Michigan bluffs, holes flowing in and out of a rock quarry, and through the area's hardwoods. Nearby Crooked Tree Golf Club is carved through stands of centuries-old hardwoods perched on bluffs overlooking Little Traverse Bay.
Doon Brae is the brand new this summer 9-hole short course at The Highlands. Other courses there north of Petoskey include The Heather course, Arthur Hills course, The Moor, and the Donald Ross Memorial, which is also undergoing course renovations.
The original courses at Boyne Mountain are the Alpine and the Monument. At the same property is the mighty new SkyBridge Michigan, the world’s longest timber-towered suspension bridge ‘floating’ 118 feet above Boyne Valley, popular with non-golfers too, especially for fall color viewing for miles.
