courses are as nice a anywhere.
Michigan - Tree Tops Courses, Boyne Highlands courses , *Bay Harbor* courses, Black Bear, Black Forest, Grand Traverse Resort, *Arcadia Bluffs*, The Garland courses, The natural, Wilderness Valley, and many more.....many of these center around either gaylord or Petoskey, or Traverse City
Wisconsin - Kohler courses - Black Wolf run and ^Whistling Straights*.
* = spectacular tracks cut into the cliffs of georgeous northern Lake Michigan. These are must sees. (BTW Michelson is part owner of treetops).
Best couse in the state of Michigan (and highly ranked the world even) is inaccessible even to the editor of golf magazine - Crystal Downs Country Club in Frankfort Michigan - again layed out around beautiful crystal lake on one side and lake Michigan on the other. It was designed by Alister McKenzie just prior to him being hired by Robert tren Jones to design Augusta national, but the terrain around Crystal Downs is far superior though a shorter season. The member list is ultra exclusive with a mix of some generational local families with money and international celebrities/tycoons. I have a friend who majored in Golf Course Management at MSU, and for his internship, he was assigned to learn from the crew at Crystal Downs. To this day, he swears it is the nicest he has ever seen, and he has played many of the famous courses around the country. Wish it were open to be played, but you need an invite...and so do I. :(