Golf courses in Michigan

Harbor Springs, a small city near the tip of the Lower Peninsula, has as many courses mapped in Yardage as Jackson or Plymouth: 13, four of them at Boyne Highlands and five at Birchwood Farms. That is northern Michigan’s resort corridor, which runs from Petoskey and Bay Harbor across to Gaylord, where a local group markets 16 courses off I-75 and Treetops alone accounts for 5 mapped entries, and down to Traverse City and the Grand Traverse Resort.

Yardage has 858 Michigan courses mapped, the third-largest state total in our catalog and 5.72% of it: 671 eighteen-hole and 187 nine-hole, a 21.8% nine-hole share that ranks 34th. Per head the state is one of the richest in golf, 8.47 courses per 100,000 residents, sixth in the Golf Course Census, one course for every 11,804 people, close to double the national figure.

Southeast Michigan carries the volume. Plymouth and South Lyon show 13 and 12, Kalamazoo 12, and the Huron-Clinton Metroparks, a 14-park system across Metro Detroit, have eight mapped courses: Kensington, Huron Meadows, Hudson Mills, Willow, Lake Erie, Indian Springs, Stony Creek and Metro Beach. The University of Michigan course, Michigan Tech’s in Houghton and Ferris State’s Katke course are mapped, and the Upper Peninsula is covered from Ironwood to Sault Sainte Marie. Of 385 postal cities, 207 have a single mapped course.

The season is roughly April to October downstate and a few weeks shorter up north, where the resorts close when the snow comes and reopen as ski hills. For a northern trip on courses you have never seen, our guide to playing a new golf course goes first; the national directory covers every state.

Most courses: Harbor Springs (13), Jackson (13), Plymouth (13), Kalamazoo (12), South Lyon (12).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates (July 1, 2025) (10,127,884 residents). Counts are courses mapped in Yardage, not an official registry.

Courses by city

Is your course mapped?

Enter the course or the town, Grand Rapids, Lansing or Marquette, and see whether your Michigan course is among the 858 in the catalog.

Missing a course?

Send the course and the town and we will look at mapping it; Michigan’s 385 catalog cities leave plenty of room for one more.