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Encyclopedia > Arcadia Bluffs Golf Course

Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club, designed by Warren Henderson and Rick Smith, was founded in 1999 in Arcadia, Michigan. The course is built on the bluffs above the shore of Lake Michigan on approximately 245 acres. The course drops 225 feet from its highest point down to the bluff, 180 feet above sea level and has 3,100 feet of lake frontage. The golf course was designed to resemble seaside Irish links, with rolling terrain and windswept natural fescues throughout. Golf (gowf in Scots) is a game where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. ... Arcadia Township is a township located in Manistee County, Michigan. ... Sunset on Lake Michigan Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. ... Species See text Fescue (Festuca) is a genus of about 300 species of tufted grasses, belonging to the grass family Poaceae. ...


Arcadia Bluffs is a daily-fee golf club, open to the public seven days a week, weather permitting, from mid-April to mid-November. GPS-equipped golf carts and caddies are available. Guests can enjoy a full practice range and separate short-game facility. The Restaurant at Arcadia Bluffs is open to the general public from May through September each year. Over fifty GPS satellites such as this NAVSTAR have been launched since 1978. ... Golf carts A golf cart is a small vehicle designed originally to carry two golfers and their golf clubs around a golf course faster and with less effort than walking. ... In golf, caddy (or caddie) is the person who carries a players bag, and gives insightful advice and moral support. ...


Golf Digest selected Arcadia Bluffs as one of the 100 Greatest Golf Courses in the United States in 2005. The club was ranked #10 in America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses list and #56 in the 100 Greatest Golf Courses list. In addition to the Golf Digest ranking, Golfweek magazine ranked Arcadia Bluffs at #24 in their listing of The 100 Best Courses in United States. Golf Digest is a monthly golf magazine published by Advance Publications in the United States. ...


External links

  • http://www.arcadiabluffs.com

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Arcadia Township, Manistee County, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (584 words)
Arcadia Township is a township located in Manistee County, Michigan.
The unincorporated community of Arcadia is located within the township on Michigan State Highway 22 on the shore of Lake Michigan.
Besides a bar called the Big Apple and the nearby nationally-renowned Arcadia Bluffs Golf Course, activities in the township are few; people are drawn to the natural beauty and relative remoteness of the area.
Traverse City Record-Eagle -- www.record-eagle.com (781 words)
MANISTEE - A year after the state sued a Manistee County golf course developer over alleged environmental violations golfers are getting in their swings but the case has barely gotten off the ground.
The discharges were the result of washouts on the course during severe storms in April, September and November 1998.
Arcadia Bluffs, which opened Monday for the 2000 season, says there won't be.
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