You’ve dreamt of a place like this. Enjoy a Pure golf experience at Forest Dunes. Vast rolling dunes of glacial sand deposits are framed by majestic corridors of pine, bracken and wild-flowers of the surrounding Huron National Forest. The course is woven in between the two paradoxes in a layout so subtle and artful that it appears to have existed there before.
EPIC
Forest Dunes is about a brand of golf that hasn’t changed since your grandfather played the game. It is about a return to true golf values, and about a golf legacy that you will pass on to your family.
- Well placed junior tees draw an exceptional game at 3,500 yards.
- An unparalleled practice center featuring a two-and-a-half acre putting course provides opportunity for both learning and relaxation.
- Beautiful lakeside guest cottages offer a refuge that is at once luxurious and rustic
- 400,000 surrounding areas of the Huron National Forest supply boundless recreational trails and world-class trout fishing that seem a fitting companion to a golf experience this unique.
Forest Dunes Golf Club is currently one of only six developments worldwide that has earned the Audubon International Certified Gold Signature Development distinction.
UNIQUE
Forest Dunes’ exceptional surroundings are matched only by its exceptional club house. A grand, 15,000 square foot Club House inspired by the nineteenth century Adirondack lodge architecture houses the Club’s luxurious facilities and amenities. The club house features a formal lodge dining room, a private dining room, a golf shop, generous meeting and gathering spaces and well appointed locker rooms.
PURE
This place is Forest Dunes Golf Club. A 7104-yard, par 72, Tom Weiskopf signature designed course that has drawn comparisons to America’s top two courses – Pine Valley and Augusta National – and was voted by
Golf Digest “2003’s Best New Upscale Course” in America
Golf World “2004 Top Ten You Can Play”
Golf Week 2004 Top One Hundred - 94th
Golf Week 'America's Best' 2005 Top 40 Best New Courses (16th)
Golf Week 2005 'Top 100 Residential Golf Communities' - 50th
Michigan Golf Magazine-
Michigan’s Top 50 Public Golf Courses - #2
Golfweek's Best Residential Courses 2006 - #34
2007-Golf Digest-Best Public Access Golf Course in Michigan- # 3 2007-Golf Digest–Top Rated Golf Course in Michigan - # 6
2007 - Great Lakes Golf Magazine – Players Choice Awards in Midwest:
# 1 - Best Conditioned Course.
” When it comes to pristine play, nobody does it better than the folks at Forest Dunes, in the little town of Roscommon, Michigan. From tee to green and everything in between, Forest Dunes is always in much better shape than you are.” Explains Don Shell Great Lakes Golf Writer
# 1 – Best Greens
“The Midwest’s best-conditioned course not surprisingly has the Best Greens, as well. What is surprising, however, is just how true the greens at Forest Dunes really are.” Explains Don Shell Great Lakes Golf Writer
2007-Golf Digest–Top 100 Public Access Golf Courses in America # 20
2007-Golf Week Magazine Top Public Access Courses in Michigan - # 2
2007-Michigan Golf-Top 100 Golf Courses in Michigan - # 2
With half of the holes edged by dense rolling forests of red and jack pines, punctuated with elaborate white sand bunkering, Augusta National references were inevitable. Similarly, Forest Dunes’ remaining nine, with dark, exposed native sand, scruffy underbrush and a “Hell’s Half Acre”-like 16th hole of untouched dune from tee to green have precipitated Pine Valley comparison.
