Old Hemlock Golf Course - now the Tennis Courts

Welcome to the site of the original Boyne Golf Course, the Hemlock. Everett created that first course with only a tractor and ambition; he had zero education in golf course design. Everett wanted to provide jobs year-round and a friend, Bill Haber, suggested adding golf to the property. The 1950s Hemlock course was the beginning of northern Michigan’s golf future. The tidy course made the entrance to Boyne Mountain Resort more inviting, too. As soon as he finished carving out that course, he dove head-first into course design and started studying the greats.

Everett Kircher enlisted Robert Trent Jones to design the first 18-hole championship course, The Heather, at the Highlands in the late 1960s. He immediately started on the next and finished The Alpine course at Boyne Mountain in 1970. The combination of the memorable one and a half mile cart ride up to the first tee and the views while playing the way back down make The Alpine a classic northern Michigan course. The Moor at The Highlands was the third built, followed by The Monument at Boyne Mountain which was completed in 1987.

💡 Want to hear from the SVP of Boyne Golf Operations and PGA Pro, Bernie Friedrich? Click Play Video to watch an interview with Matt Adams from Fairways of Life

💡 Interested in learning more about all our courses here in Northern Michigan? Visit Boyne Golf.

💡 Want to see Everett's Michigan Golf Hall of Fame Member's page? Everett Kircher

📸 Attached Media:

-Everett's portrait from the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame http://mghof.org/members/everett-kircher/

-Everett beside his hole on the Monument Golf Course, photo from the New England Ski History website

-"Golf Courses of Northwest Michigan" from the Petoskey News Review on June 27, 1991

-"Boyne Country Looks Ahead to Big Time Golf and Conventions" from the Petoskey News Review on December 4, 1970

-"Lee Armstrong Brings His Experience to Boyne" from The Graphic on July 18, 1977

-"Birthday Wish Comes True - New Golf Course" from the Petoskey News Review on July 18, 1985

🔗Links in Text:

-"Fairways of Life - Bernie Friedrich Interview at PGA Show 2022" YouTube by Boyne Golf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTuwXaIiDSI

-Boyne Golf www.boynegolf.com

🏃Continue across the parking lot and cross Boyne Mountain Road. Please be careful of the traffic. Walk toward the gated entrance and the Boynestadt Condominiums.

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