Where to play, where to sleep and how to string together 45 holes in two days between Clare, Stanwood and Mt. Pleasant — including a 9-hole course you can walk to from bed.
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Why a night in Lake, Michigan turns a seven-hour haul to Traverse City into two easy drives — and what to do with the afternoon you just got back.
A realistic two-day plan for a family with kids at Cabins on the Green, from check-in to the last marshmallow.
Gaylord, Boyne and Traverse City get the magazine covers, but they are four hours from Detroit and five from Fort Wayne or Toledo. Clare County is two and a half. For a Friday-to-Sunday trip, that difference is an entire extra round of golf.
The other difference is price. Resort stay-and-play packages in northern Michigan commonly run $250–$450 per golfer per night in peak summer. Here, a three-bedroom cabin for a foursome works out to well under $100 per person per night, and the nine-hole course on the grounds is included in our Stay & Play package.
Friday: arrive by 4 PM, drop the clubs, and walk out to the first tee at Pleasant Meadows for a warm-up nine. Fire pit after dark.
Saturday: drive 45 minutes south to Tullymore Golf Resort in Stanwood for 18 on one of Michigan's top-ranked public courses, or its sister course St. Ives next door. Back by late afternoon for a second nine on our course — it's short enough that a second loop is a reward, not a slog.
Sunday: a lazy morning nine on the grounds, mini golf grudge match for the non-golfers, check out at 11 and be home for dinner.
Mixed groups. The golfers get Tullymore; the kids and non-golfers get two mini-golf courses, disc golf, a snack bar and a fire pit without being stranded at a resort with nothing else to do.
Groups who want their own bed. Every cabin has two full bathrooms, so four adults don't share one shower.
About 45 minutes south in Stanwood, via US-10 and US-131 or the backroads through Lake and Barryton.
We book them for you as a concierge service at Tullymore's public rates; the package includes unlimited play on the on-site 9-hole course, range balls, clubs and carts.
Tell us your dates and party size. We reply the same day with availability and a direct rate.