Best Summer Golf Courses
Standing on the 7th green of Harbor Shores Golf Club in Benton Harbor, Michigan, everything becomes inherently simple. The work emails you forgot to send disappear into the subtle white caps of waves on Lake Michigan. The lawn you decided not to mow is a thought lost in perfectly rugged heather grass framing one of Nicklaus’ best placed bunkers. The smell of suntan oil wafting up from the beach goers below make a golfless winter seem impossible. It’s summer, and in this moment, it lasts forever.
This TeeOff journey celebrates the amazing simplicity of golf in classic summer destinations, and from Harbor Shores, it’s only a quick jaunt to our second stop, Grand Traverse Resort and Spa. Aptly named after its fiercely competitive designer, Jack Nicklaus, The Bear provides a perfect balance of challenge and beauty to justify leaving a day of leisure in Traverse Bay to be tested by tiered greens, pot bunkers, moguls and mounds in your battle versus par. And when you’re done with that battle, play the local’s favorite, Spruce Run or give the Gary Player designed The Wolverine a go.
Heading south on Lake Michigan, we hit one of the best metropolitan locations in the United States for summer fun in Chicago and its unique links course, Harborside International Golf Center. Designed by dink Nugent, Harborside’s two 18-hole layouts, Port and Starboard, have been granting Chicago-area golfers with over 14,000 yards of fun and a much needed break from countless street fests, Wrigley Field and Oak Street Beach. Unfortunately, Harborside and its million, well placed bunkers can’t guarantee that its golfers get a break from the sand- so you better make sure you’ve brushed up on your splash game before you arrive at this summer gem.
A write up on great golf courses in summer spots would be incomplete without a trip “down the shore”, and there’s no better place to land than the Seaview Golf Resort just north of Atlantic City. Located in the shadows of the famed boardwalk casinos, this 670-acre seaside getaway is the furthest thing from a gamble. With a links track designed by Hugh Wilson and Donald Ross (Bay Course) and a parkland layout crafted by William Flynn and Howard Toomey (Pines Course), Seaview Golf Resort comes up aces.
Last, but certainly not least, Seattle, Washington, invites you to “Come As You Are” and feel “Alive” as you sip your morning joe, bask in the summer sunshine and tee it up at two of the finer daily fee courses in the West- Salish Cliffs and Chambers Bay. As different as their names imply, Salish Cliffs is a hilly wooded paradise that keeps the crack of the driver echoing for days, while Chambers Bay is a traditional seaside links with a single, lone fir and beautiful bunkers that are best admired from afar. Both are amazing! Just don’t forget to download your favorite 90s grunge tunes before you go- there’s “No Excuses”.
This TeeOff journey celebrates the amazing simplicity of golf in classic summer destinations, and from Harbor Shores, it’s only a quick jaunt to our second stop, Grand Traverse Resort and Spa. Aptly named after its fiercely competitive designer, Jack Nicklaus, The Bear provides a perfect balance of challenge and beauty to justify leaving a day of leisure in Traverse Bay to be tested by tiered greens, pot bunkers, moguls and mounds in your battle versus par. And when you’re done with that battle, play the local’s favorite, Spruce Run or give the Gary Player designed The Wolverine a go.
Heading south on Lake Michigan, we hit one of the best metropolitan locations in the United States for summer fun in Chicago and its unique links course, Harborside International Golf Center. Designed by dink Nugent, Harborside’s two 18-hole layouts, Port and Starboard, have been granting Chicago-area golfers with over 14,000 yards of fun and a much needed break from countless street fests, Wrigley Field and Oak Street Beach. Unfortunately, Harborside and its million, well placed bunkers can’t guarantee that its golfers get a break from the sand- so you better make sure you’ve brushed up on your splash game before you arrive at this summer gem.
A write up on great golf courses in summer spots would be incomplete without a trip “down the shore”, and there’s no better place to land than the Seaview Golf Resort just north of Atlantic City. Located in the shadows of the famed boardwalk casinos, this 670-acre seaside getaway is the furthest thing from a gamble. With a links track designed by Hugh Wilson and Donald Ross (Bay Course) and a parkland layout crafted by William Flynn and Howard Toomey (Pines Course), Seaview Golf Resort comes up aces.
Last, but certainly not least, Seattle, Washington, invites you to “Come As You Are” and feel “Alive” as you sip your morning joe, bask in the summer sunshine and tee it up at two of the finer daily fee courses in the West- Salish Cliffs and Chambers Bay. As different as their names imply, Salish Cliffs is a hilly wooded paradise that keeps the crack of the driver echoing for days, while Chambers Bay is a traditional seaside links with a single, lone fir and beautiful bunkers that are best admired from afar. Both are amazing! Just don’t forget to download your favorite 90s grunge tunes before you go- there’s “No Excuses”.