Ohio Golf Journal February 2020

of each other. It is the largest golf resort group in America north of the famous Pinehurst, N.C. For diehard golf junkies like us, Boyne Highlands is the place to set up base camp. We selected the Ross Cottages, which are the perfect gathering place each night after golf. It helped that we noticed Golf.com readers selected the Highlands as the country’s “No. 1 Golf Resort for Value.” We opened our four-day golf boondoggle with Boyne’s first-ever layout, The Heather, the 2019 National Golf Course Owners Course of the Year. The opportunity to play one of Robert Trent Jones Sr.’s early designs was a treat. The evening found us hanging out on the patio of Slopeside for pizza and drinks with a few of the tireless golf nuts playing the executive par 3 course that is under the lights and ventures up and down a ski hill. In other words, it was a perfect golf evening. Day 2 was a golfing bonanza that started on the Donald Ross Memorial, which plays homage to one of the greatest golf course designers in history. The Ross Memorial is a wonderful rendition of 18 great Donald Ross holes from around the world, with special attention to holes and places golfers do not have the opportunity to experience. Seminole, Oakland Hills, Oak Hill, Pinehurst, Inverness, Bob O’Link, and Aronomick holes are among the amazing collection. After a quick lunch in the Seminole Pub, we took on an afternoon on the Arthur Hills course. A big, bold design, it kept building in an almost suspenseful way with one fun golf hole leading to yet another. To add even more fun, we moved up a set of tee-boxes