Michigan is home to some of the best golf options in the United States.
For evidence, look no further than Golf Digest’s 2025 list of “America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses,” which includes eight tracks located throughout Michigan.
The rankings are based on tens of thousands of evaluations submitted by traveling course-ranking panelists, with a focus on the architectural merits of each course, not their affordability.
“Our ranking provides a biennial snapshot into the state of affairs of public and resort golf course architecture,” authors Derek Duncan and Stephen Hennessey wrote.
“It also, increasingly, offers a peek into the wider world of golf development. High-end golf course construction—new courses and major remodels of existing clubs—has exploded the last six years in both quantity and quality.”
Here is a closer look at the Michigan golf courses featured on the list:
No. 100 – Bay Harbor Golf Club (Bay Harbor)
One of three grand “new Pebble Beaches” that debuted in the late 1990s, Bay Harbor consists of 27 holes highlighted by its Links 9, which plays mostly on a plateau overlooking Lake Michigan, and its Quarry 9, which dips in and out of a lakefront stone quarry.
No. 70 – Tullymore Golf Club (Stanwood)
A past member of our America’s 100 Greatest list, Tullymore winds through 800 acres of woods and wetlands and features unique “muscle” bunkers and bowled greens designed by architect Jim Engh.
No. 68 – The Loop: Red (Roscommon)
The Red Course is the counterclockwise routing of The Loop, and as the name suggests, both it and the Black Course play out to ninth holes at a far corner of the property, then back in.
No. 63 – The Loop: Black (Roscommon)
The Black Course is the clockwise routing, slightly shorter and ranked slightly higher than its reverse image Red Course.
No. 55 – Greywalls at Marquette Golf Club (Marquette)
Granite rock outcroppings that edge some holes and squeeze others provides the rugged topography over which this course scampers up and plunges down. The vistas out over Lake Superior are fantastic.
No. 53 – Arcadia Bluffs South Course (Arcadia)
The South Course is a throwback in time, a jigsaw puzzle of intersecting bunkers, centerline hazards, alternate routes of play and geometric shaping.
No. 37 – Forest Dunes Golf Club (Roscommon)
The course features a terrific layout on a terrific piece of property, with sand dunes deposited by the nearby Au Sable River and covered with mature pines.
No. 16 – Arcadia Bluffs (Arcadia)
Built on the bluffs above the shore of Lake Michigan on approximately 245 acres, the course is designed to resemble seaside Irish links, with rolling terrain and windswept natural fescues throughout.
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