{"id":5494,"date":"2023-06-12T17:08:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T22:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.18holesandcounting.com\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T17:51:48","slug":"the-grand-nine-the-jewel-the-woods-golf-course-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.18holesandcounting.com\/?p=5494","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Nine – The Jewel & The Woods Golf Course Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A friend of ours recently asked me what we look for when we are searching for a golf course to play.<\/em><\/strong> He wanted to know if we researched the history <\/em><\/strong>of a certain course or the background on who designed the course before we played it<\/em><\/strong>. It was a great question<\/mark><\/em><\/strong> and one I really hadn’t given much thought to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because to tell you the truth – when we look for a course to play, our only goal has been to ensure we play in each of the 50 states<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong> After that, I hadn’t given it much more thought. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That is until now……<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We have been spending a few weeks in the upper peninsula of Michigan, and I have been researching what golf courses there are in the area. I have found several, with most of them pretty straight forward – public courses, reasonably priced<\/em><\/strong>, all offering enough variety in their design <\/em><\/strong>to satisfy this recreational golfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I was surfing through the internet and my tourist books, I was reading about Mackinac Island <\/em><\/strong>and wondered if we could play golf on the island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those that are curious – the answer is YES!! <\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mackinac Island has two standard golf courses to choose from.<\/em><\/strong> And that’s where the original question comes into play for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the two – which one would be the most interesting to play? The only way to answer that was to do a little bit of reading. Which is exactly what I did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here’s what I found:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n