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Michigan's Century-Old Golf Courses Michigan’s Century-Old Golf Courses tesy of Harbor Point Golf Club Photo cour Harbor Point Golf Club By Art McCafferty, Publisher and Kelly Hill, Managing Editor here is a most interesting Michigan map on the wall at Mission Pointe Resort on Mackinac TIsland. The map highlights Michigan’s develop- ment and also lists the population of the state in is ear- lier days. At least two of the top-five population areas were in the north. Perhaps that is why many of our early golf courses were established there. 12 W I N T E R 2 0 0 6 / 2 0 0 6 • M I C H I G A N G O L F E R M A G A Z I N E It was during an era when cruise tees measure just 5,034 yards and passed. "Now I am down to about boats plied the Great Lakes and the championship tees stretch to 60 caddies. The reason is other brought vacationers from Chicago only 6,003 yards. jobs. Kids are looking for other to Harbor Springs or Mackinac This club opens up to the jobs, not caddying. The boys are Island. Detroit vacationers were public after 1:30 p.m. daily, dur- getting younger and smaller every taken to Mackinac Island, the Les ing the summer months. year," he said. Cheneaux islands or Sault Ste. In his 25 years, Moulton Marie. In the Upper Peninsula, served under three golf pros, start- Michigan mines were in full pro- Wequetonsing Golf Club ing with Cliff Booth, then Lee duction and places like Houghton- (1896) Kosten and then with Frank "Red" Hancock and Iron Mountain were Wilson, who was the pro in 1972. densely settled. In 1888, New York's St. John J. Wilson is now the What better way to spend Andrews opened. Six years later it head professional at one’s vacation time in beautiful provided the site for the nation's Wequetonsing. Northern Michigan than on the first invitational amateur champi- “He still trains new caddies on the links? Here is a quick look at onship. 1894 also was the year 18th green, next to the caddymas- Michigan’s courses that were when some pioneering Michigan ter’s shop, and the instruction is established during that era, over a golfers teed it up at Roaring based on 25 years of experience,” century ago. Brook Course in Harbor Springs. the Harbor Light story read. “I Roaring Brook Course is gone have enjoyed my 25 years here at now, but Harbor Point and the course. The most memorable Harbor Point Golf Club Wequetonsing Golf Club remain. things I can remember is a hole in (1896) According to Nancy Duray of one on hole 10 by Ernest Breech, Harbor Point and ‘Red’ Wilson of and the day that Red Wilson tied This course was listed on Wequetonsing, these two Harbor the golf course record. Those GOLF Magazine's 1995 list of Springs courses opened for play in would have to be the things I “The First 100 Clubs in 1896. remember best,” Moulton said. America.” One of the more colorful “There hasn’t been too many Located on South Lake Shore character’s in Wequetonsing’s sto- changes in the course in 25 years, Drive in Harbor Springs, Harbor ried history is former caddy mas- mostly just the enlarging of the Point is a classic course that is ter Ford A. Moulton. In 1972, tees. This is a very beautiful challenging but not overwhelming Moulton was featured in the course,” he concluded. and meticulously maintained. It is Harbor Light, the weekly newspa- A private course, semi-private from late June per of Harbor Springs. Wequetonsing also is not particu- through the first week in “When the majority of larly long, given today’s stan- September and fully public in the summer residents arrive in the dards. Wequetonsing usually plays spring and fall. Harbor Springs area and start to 5,201 yards from the front and Two ponds come into play play golf, those playing at 6,150 yards for the average club on three holes. The fairways are Wequetonsing Golf Course will member. narrow and were built on rolling undoubtedly say hello to a man terrain. The greens are undulating who is starting his 25th year as and some of them are elevated. caddymaster at the course, Ford Les Cheneaux Club & Originally designed by David A. Moulton.” the Harbor Light Golf Links (1898) Foulis, course architect David story read, in 1972. Gill added three new holes and “Now 67, Ford, as every- Located in Cedarville, in redesigned the other 13 in 1972. one called him, remembers when the eastern Upper Peninsula, Les Harbor Point is a relatively short he had 175 caddies under his Cheneaux is traditional links in test of one’s game, as the forward direction. Those times have its essential features. The nine- M I C H I G A N G O L F E R M A G A Z I N E • W I N T E R 2 0 0 6 / 2 0 0 6 13 hole Les Cheneaux Golf Club was second nine was designed by Tom laid out and chartered by the early Bendelow . members of the Les Cheneaux Club and was ready for play in Washtenaw Country May of 1898. Club (1899) Play is from the water and back to the water, sand In the fall of 1898, and water are both natural two young, entrepre- hazards, as are forest and neurial Ypsilantians, rock, and the design of Cora (Cornwell) the grounds is dictated by Henry, having just the land, not imposed on returned from a it. By 1900, the club had summer vacation posted both a profes- on Martha's sional nine-hole record Vineyard, and I. score of 38 (by W.V. Newton Swift, a Hoare) and an amateur student at Yale, record of 41. introduced their Though there have friend, Daniel L. been some changes since Quirk, Jr., to “a won- the very early years, such derful game” being as lengthening some holes, played on the East the essential character of the Coast. links has changed little. Many Convincing a of the hazards are overgrown friendly farmer on the piles of the fieldstone cleared west edge of Ypsilanti to Tom Bendelow from the original fairways and the allow them to sink three top- perpetual hazards of the forest less tomato cans in his freshly-cut and rock outcrops remain chal- Island hay field, the threesome invited lenging. during the friends to join them for the new Les Cheneaux is open to times when the Island was under game of golf. Enthusiasm for the the public and plays 2,852 yards attack. game was infectious. from the middle tees. For more On July 11, 1899, a group information, visit: www.lesche- of 15 Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor neaux.org/recreation/golfing.html. residents met and officially Saginaw Country Club formed Washtenaw Country Club. (1899) Signers of the Articles of Wawashkamo Golf Club Association included A.A. Van (1898) A Saginaw businessman, Charles Cleve, S.E. Dodge, R.W. Davis, noticed the growth of golf Hemphill, Jr., E.C. Cornwell, J.B. Wawashkamo Golf Club is on many of his travels to the Colvan, H.S. Platt, Charles D. a semi-private club on Mackinac Eastern part of the United States in Church, Henry W. Douglas, Island. The course was designed by the late 19th century. Upon return- William Gardam, David B. Alex Smith in 1898. This nine hole ing from one of his trips, he staked Dodge, D.L. Quirk, Jr., I. Newton gem has been pretty much out a nine hole course on his prop- Swift, W.L. Pack, Duane untouched in its lifespan. One of erty in 1898. In 1899 the Saginaw Spalsbury and David R. Morford. the bunkers on the course was Country Club was formed.. In On July 18, 1899, the club was actually dug by soldiers on the 1909 the nine hole course was pur- incorporated. chased and a few years later a 14 W I N T E R 2 0 0 6 / 2 0 0 6 • M I C H I G A N G O L F E R M A G A Z I N E Golf in Ireland… Where Heaven & Earth Meet * Home to Ryder Cup in 2006 * 250,000 Golfers Visit Ireland annually for Golf * Best Established Golf Destination Winner * Three Links Courses in Worlds Top Ten * A Landmark of Hospitality & Home to Guinness! For More Information Visit http://www.sullivangolf.ie or Call 011 353 69 77377 y Club tesy of Saginaw Countr Photo cour Saginaw Country Club While it has been stadium. As indicated by their the past century there have been acclaimed “the second-oldest golf website, the actual date of the many stories that have evolved club in Michigan,” Washtenaw Club's formation cannot be veri- concerning the course. Among the actually is the third. Detroit fied but it is generally thought to more interesting historical notes Country Club was started as a be between 1890 and 1903. The is that former club pro John nine-hole layout in about 1889, club has nine holes of golf that Rueter designed the original while Saginaw Country Club play to a little over 2500 yards. "Bulls eye" putter while working opened its course in early 1899, a Facilities include a clubhouse at the Sault Country Club. He few months ahead of Washtenaw. with dining rooms and a tennis sold the patent rights to Acushnet, For more information, house with two courts.
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