We are looking forward to seeing everyone for another great season of beautiful Michigan golf. Don’t forget, use promo code “EARLYBIRDIE” now through March 13th to save 10% off your online booking!
The winter can be long and feel never-ending, especially Up-North.
Fortunately, the Leelanau/Traverse area is home to many options for some indoor golf. Whether you’re looking to focus and stay on track with your goals, or just looking for a casual place to stay loose with your buddies, there’s something for everyone.
The Traverse City Golf Performance Center has recently undergone new ownership, and with that, a huge expansion to the indoor practice facility including brand-new state-of-the-art Trackman bays.
You probably already know the TCGPC is the spot for all things golf – shoes, clubs, balls, gloves – you name it.
Now, there’s tons of membership options for the bays and as always, PGA professionals ready to give lessons.
Learn more at tcgolfperformance.com
X-Golf is the widely known premier golf simulator franchise with locations all over the United States and beyond, including Traverse City.
With plenty of winter leagues and tournaments to participate in, it’s a great spot to practice golf in the winter. With a full bar and kitchen, it’s the hottest place to hangout with your buddies and take some swings.
Learn more at playxgolf.com
For a more private option, consider Body Balance’s private golf simulator room, available to rent!
Pack some refreshments, bring the friends, and spend a night kicking back in a quiet spot swinging clubs. It’s a great way to do something different in the wintertime, and keep yourself loose until spring.
Learn more at bodybalanceofsuttonsbay.com
The Land of Leelanau is known as a summer paradise for obvious reasons.
But the fall on Leelanau Peninsula is something magical – this year especially! We’ve been blessed with a long window of peak colors here in Northern Michigan.
For those who didn’t know “Dre”, Andre Schnapp was a beloved Bahle Farms regular, employee, and active member of the golf community up here in Suttons Bay and surrounding.
Andre unfortunately passed away last spring, as the sale of the golf course was taking place.
While we didn’t personally know Dre (Crosley had a chance to meet him once), it was clear as we were coming in to the businesss that he had a huge impact on many of the people around us. We were honored when Allison, Dre’s life and business partner, approached us last year to host a golf outing and celebration of life for Dre.
While Dre Day 2021 was a bit more intimate, involving close friends and family members, we wanted to continue on the legacy of Dre annually and open it up to celebrate with all.
Despite the rain, we had an amazing Dre Day 2022 full of friends, family, community, golf and more.
Dre Day 2022
With rain on the radar, we were all watching carefully and making any “Plan B’s” we could. The morning started out misty, but promising.
After a ceremonial tee-off by Dre’s father Vernon, 24 teams were off! We had about 45 minutes until the rain started coming in…hard.
Most teams stuck through the bouts of pouring rain, and the afternoon cleared out just in time for the After Party!
1st Place: Mike Schultz, Brett Keck, Kyle Schaub and Peyton Mcdonough (54)
2nd Place: Keith Coleman, Ronda Coleman, Ryan Nesbit and Aiden Coleman (56)
3rd Place: Peg Larsen, John Larsen, Gary Hecht and Larry Clark (57)
Congrats to our winners!
After Party
Following the golf, we dried off by boogeying to some tunes by Rick Micham aka DJ Leo. We also had some members from Soul Patch play and even ended up jamming with the DJ for an incredible freestyle.
We had our friends from Leelanau Vodka dishing out some tastings and free drinks to those who won the Chipping Contest set out.
Folks from Cherryland Humane Society hung out and raised awareness for the many rescue dogs available for adoption. Allison and Dre are huge dog people (together they ran SunDog Kennel and have been avid supporters of Cherryland Humane Society), so we were very thankful to have them there!
Thank you to everyone for coming and hanging out with us all afternoon!
We had a fabulous time with Suttons Bay Schools on Sunday, May 22nd for a golf outing to support Suttons Bay Sports!
The weather was a little chilly, but we had a great day. Thank you to all of the golfers who came and supported Student Athletes, the many sponsors and prize donators.
Check out some pictures of the teams below!
Join us on Wednesday, June 1st for our official kick-off Ladies Night event!
Sign up with friends, or come make new ones! This is a fun, friendly and social 9 hole event. All levels welcome.
Stay for a drink on the patio afterwards!
Ladies Nights will continue every other Wednesday following June 1st. Games will vary.
Sign-up by calling the Clubhouse at (231) 271-2020.
2022 Masters odds: Surprising PGA Picks, predictions by top-rated model that nailed 7 golf majors
SportsLine simulated the Masters Tournament 2022 at Augusta National Golf Club 10,000 Times
By CBS Sports Staff
Jack Nicklaus began his legacy at the Masters in 1961 when he finished seventh as an amateur. Non-professionals participating at the Masters 2022 will compete for the Silver Cup, but there are also 16 pros in the 2022 Masters field who are making their debut at Augusta National Golf Club. Sam Burns has the best 2022 Masters odds of the group at 40-1 at Caesars Sportsbook, but should he be among your 2022 Masters picks? The first 2022 Masters tee times are on Thursday, April 7.
Burns is coming off his second PGA Tour win of the season at the Valspar Championship after he opened with a win at the Sanderson Farms Championship. Will Zalatoris raised everyone’s eyebrows when he took second in his Masters debut last year, and he returns with 35-1 Masters odds 2022 to win. Before locking in any 2022 Masters picks of your own, be sure to see the golf predictions and projected leaderboard from the proven computer model at SportsLine.
SportsLine’s proprietary model, built by DFS pro Mike McClure, has been red-hot since the PGA Tour resumed in June 2020. In fact, it’s up almost $10,000 on its best bets since that point, nailing tournament after tournament.
At the 2021 Open Championship, McClure’s best bets included Collin Morikawa winning outright even though he was listed as a massive 40-1 long shot. In addition, McClure’s model was all over Jon Rahm’s (10-1) first career major championship victory at the 2021 U.S. Open. Rahm was two strokes off the lead heading into the weekend, but the model still projected him as the winner.
Now that the Masters 2022 field is taking shape, SportsLine simulated the event 10,000 times, and the results were surprising. Head to SportsLine now to see the projected 2022 Masters leaderboard.
One major surprise the model is calling for at the 2022 Masters: Rory McIlroy, a 20-time PGA Tour champion and one of the top favorites, stumbles at Augusta and finishes outside the top 10. The 32-year-old finished on top of the leaderboard at the CJ Cup earlier this season, his 20th PGA Tour victory.
McIlroy is a four-time major champion and can complete the career grand slam with a victory at Augusta National. However, he has been unable to grasp the coveted green jacket despite being in the mix on numerous occasions. McIlroy has finished in the top 10 in six of his last eight starts at Augusta, but the pressure of winning the green jacket seems to be weighing on him. He’s finished 21st or worse in two of his last three starts at Augusta, which includes a missed cut in 2021. He’s not a strong pick to win it all, and there are far better values in the Masters Tournament 2022 field.
Another surprise: Viktor Hovland, an 18-1 long shot, makes a strong run at the title. He’s a target for anyone looking for a huge payday. Last year, the only area of his game that failed him was lack of execution on approach shots, where he finished with a minus-0.58 shots gained average. Otherwise, he was strong off the tee and picked up nearly a stroke-and-a-half on such shots per round. Hovland has been much better this season on his approach attempts and is third on the tour in strokes gained (1.019).
Hovland finished 32nd and 21st in his first two appearances at Augusta National, but he looks like he’s set up for a much better showing this year.
Source: CBSSports.com
In honor of International Women’s Month, we are exploring the rich history of women in golf. Although known as a “man’s sport”, women have been making waves in the golf industry since, well, conception thanks to Mary Queen of Scots.
Read on to find out more about Women in Golf’s History from Golf Channel:
History of Golf – Part 7: Women and Golf
By: George White
Women have played a very large part in the history of golf, even before the last half of the 20th century when they finally achieved equality with men. Records of ladies playing golf exist all the way back to the time of Mary Queen of Scots.
Mary, you may recollect, was one of the first known golfers of either sex back in the mid-1500s. Her husband was murdered in 1567 and there was rather strong suspicion that Mary was the culprit. Mary herself was ultimately beheaded because of the incident.
The next 200 years are clouded in anonymity. Women certainly played the sport, but because of a strong bias toward male players, woman golfers are not mentioned in any writings.
Golfing ladies do not rate another mention until 1792. It is known that the women of Musselburgh were avid golfers ‘ a letter of that date mentions women and the rules and duties of the club. And in 1810, a proposal was made to present gifts to the winning female golfer at the club.
St. Andrews appears to have had the first ladies club, formed in 1867. In 1868, Britains Westward Ho and North Devon followed suit. Women, however, were generally confined to courses of their own, many containing some short putting holes and a couple of longer ones requiring a drive of approximately 80 yards. The courses were so much shorter because of the outfits the women were obliged to wear ‘ the postures and gestures requisite for a full swing are not particularly graceful when the player is clad in female dress, said one contemporary writer.
In America around the turn of the century, male-only golf clubs were known as Eveless Edens, wrote Liz Kahn in her book, The LPGA: The Unauthorized Version. In spite of this, womens golf was becoming exceedingly popular. British amateur champion May Hezlet wrote in a book published in 1907, It is now generally acknowledged that golf is a game ‘ par excellence ‘ for women. It is essentially a game for women: the exercise is splendid without being unduly violent, as is sometimes the case in hockey or tennis.
The USGA held the first American Womens Amateur Championship in 1895 with 13 entries. Only one round was played and the winner was Mrs. Charles S. Brown of Shinnecock Hills, who went round in 132 strokes. This was a nine-hole course that the women played twice. Mrs. Brown took an 11 on the first hole, but recovered to shoot 69 the front nine and 63 the second.
The British Ladies Championship was played in 1893 following the formation of the Ladies Golf Union. Thirty-one women competed at the match-play event, won by the great British amateur Lady Margaret Scott.
Englishman Harold Hilton commented of Rhona Adair, an exceptional turn-of-the-century womens golfer, that, Miss Adair stands up to the ball in a manner quite worthy of any of the sterner sex. There is a determination and firmness in her address to the ball which is most fascinating to watch. Lady players, as a rule, appear to persuade the ball on its way; Miss Adair, on the contrary, avoids any such constrictions on her methods by hitting it very hard indeed.
Such was written by Lewine Mair in her book, 100 Years of Womens Golf.
Two English women, Cecil Leitch and Joyce Wethered, dominated the British golfing scene for the next two decades. And after World War I, Wethered voiced the opinion that the changing fashions for golfing women led to a huge improvement in their scores.
I just wish that trousers had been in vogue in my day, as skirts were such a problem, said Weathered. They would fall just above the ankle, and you had to be very careful that they were tight enough not to flap, yet loose enough to let you take up your stance. Trousers apart, the only practical garment has to be a short skirt such as the Americans now wear.
Weathered was such an accomplished golfer that only about half a dozen men were believed to be her equal.
The outstanding American woman of the era was Glenna Collett Vare. Most of her competition came from Alexa Stirling ‘ who played much of her childhood golf with Bobby Jones ‘ Edith Cummings, Marion Hollins, Maureen Orcutt, Miriam Burns, Virginia Van Wie, Mary K. Browne, Helen Hicks and Lillian Hyde.
The first women professionals began to appear in the 1920s and 30s. Helen MacDonald was the first woman to sign with an equipment company, Hillerich & Bradsby, in 1924. The first to promote a manufacturers products and give golf clinics was Helen Hicks, who joined Wilson Sporting Goods in 1934.
Only four tournaments were open to American women in the 1930s ‘ the Hardscrabble Open in Arkansas, the Texas Open, the Western Open in Chicago and the Titleholders in Augusta, Ga. Patty Berg was the first woman to win a check at a golf tournament, the Womans Western Golf Association in 1941 which carried a purse of $100,000.
The Womens Professional Golf Association was formed in America in 1944 and existed for six years. Spurred on by Hope Seignious, who paid the bills with her wealthy fathers money, the tour foundered because of a lack of sources for revenue.
The U.S. Womens Open began in 1946. And in 1947, Babe Zaharias became a professional. She had been an outstanding amateur, as well as a great Olympic track athlete. She was the impetus behind the inauguration of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, formed upon the demise of the WPGA in 1950.
Fred Corcoran ran the organization for the women with Berg the first president. The rest of the founders were Zaharias, Hicks, Betty Jameson, Helen Dettwiler, Betty Mims White, Alice Bauer, Bettye Danoff, Marlene Bauer Hagge, Opal Hill, Sally Sessions, Marilynn Smith and Peggy Kirk Bell.
The LPGA played 14 events its first season, and by 1952 had risen to 21 events. Mickey Wright, perhaps the greatest player, joined the tour in 1955 and helped gain much-needed publicity for the tour. Kathy Whitworth, another great, joined in 1958 and eventually rang up 88 tournament titles.
JoAnne Carner was a rookie in 1970, Nancy Lopez followed in 1978. Lopez won five consecutive tournaments and nine titles in all that year. The following season she won eight times.
The LPGA today is a prosperous organization of 34 tournaments with approximately $40 million is purses ‘ an average of $1.19 million per outing.
Source: The Golf Channel
Welcome to the refreshed and updated Bahle Farms website! We figured it was time for a new look, a new vibe to the brand in the digital space.
Our goal with this refresh was more simplicity, more sleekness, more beauty. We’re excited about this next generation at Bahle Farms, and want our website to reflect that.
Take a look around, things have changed a bit but we think you’ll like it. Some of our favorite features are:
Flyover videos of each hole under our new “The Course” tab
Updated photo gallery, including recent photos taken by Noah Jurik. He’s got an insane eye for capturing Northern Michigan’s beauty (@noahjurik on Instagram)
Updated Area Lodging page for your lodging needs. Any guests of the options listed here get you 10% of your greens fee!
There’s a few spots still under construction, but we hope you like it. With this refresh, we’re excited for more blog posts and updates, so don’t be a stranger. If you wanna stay the most in the loop, join our E-Club for all things Bahle Farms.
ONE WEEK LEFT!
Our last day of the 2021 season is Sunday, October 31st.
We hope to see you one more time before we say goodbye for the winter.
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