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Editors' Choice

Best Golf Resorts In The Midwest

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THE AMERICAN CLUB
Kohler, Wis.

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The Kohler Company

This resort will be more popular than ever after the Ryder Cup was contested here in 2021. With four total Pete Dye designs (Whistling Straits and Blackwolf Run), the American Club is one of the sought-after destinations in an ever-growing Wisconsin golf landscape.
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ARCADIA (MICH.) BLUFFS

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Photographed by Dom Furore at Arcadia Bluffs in Michigan.

Incredible vistas of Lake Michigan give Arcadia Bluffs some of the most underrated, beautiful views in golf. The facility opened a second 18-hole course in 2018. The existing course is ranked 68th on Golf Digest's 100 Greatest Courses. Lodging includes quaint two- to four-bedroom cottages that also overlook the lake—the rooms made Golf Digest's 18 Coolest Rooms in Golf ranking.

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ERIN (WIS.) HILLS

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Photo by Dom Furore

Cottages patterned after those at Augusta National and Pine Valley overlook the sprawling lay-of-the-land layout that hosted the 2017 U.S. Open.
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FOREST DUNES G.C.
Roscommon, Mich.

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2007 Golf Digest / Dom Furore

Tom Weiskopf's 18 features a front nine reminiscent of Augusta National and a closing stretch straight from the sand barrens of Pine Valley. Tom Doak's reversible 18, The Loop, opened in 2017.
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FRENCH LICK (IND.) RESORT

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Courtesy of French Lick

Pete Dye chopped the top off a mountain in creating the course ranked 17th among America's 100 Greatest Public Courses. Lee Schmidt recently spent time restoring the Donald Ross 18 and converted the Tom Bendelow Course into a compelling nine.
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GIANTS RIDGE
Biwabik, Minn.

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Evan Schiller

When The Quarry at Giants Ridge opened in 2001, we hailed its Jeff Brauer layout as the first great design of the 21st century. Brauer's Legend course is also distinctive.
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THE INN AT BAY HARBOR
Bay Harbor, Mich.

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Brian Walters Photography

Built on the former home of a cement factory and quarry, Arthur Hills' 27 holes at this Northern Michigan resort include the Quarry, Links and Preserve. Dramatic views along the bluffs of Lake Michigan make for scenic holes that play tough when the wind is up. The views are just as good from the Inn at Bay Harbor, which offers shuttle service from the resort to this quaint harbor town.

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SAND VALLEY GOLF RESORT
Nekoosa, Wis.

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Sand Valley has so much going on ... where do we start? First, the golf: The Lido is a recreation of the famed C.B. Macdonald course on Long Island that existed from 1917 until World War II when the land was overtaken by the U.S. Navy, will open in 2023. Tom Doak's Renaissance Golf Design company is doing the work, with the help of 3-D computer modeling and robotic bulldozers. Doak has another layout coming, Sedge Valley, which will be a non-traditional entry, is expected to open in 2024. These highly anticipated newcomers join an already-impressive menu of courses: David McLay Kidd-designed Mammoth Dunes course opened in 2018, joining the Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw-designed Sand Valley, which debuted as Golf Digest's Best New course of 2017. And this is not even to mention Sedge Village, an upscale collection of amenities to be built around Sedge Valley, which will include an outdoor patio with a year-round pool overlooking what the resort is calling "the world's largest putting course." 
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