Many Minnesota golfers have never experienced the dramatic beauty of The Lakes Golf Course at Ruttger’s Bay Lake Lodge. If you fall into that category, make a promise to yourself: spend a day at Ruttger’s this season.
For property owners at Izatys and patrons who support the old Lake Mille Lacs resort life has been slip or slide. Constant changes in underfunded ownership and inexperienced management caused facilities and golf courses to slide into oblivion.
Chuck and Marilyn Appeldoorn own three businesses in the Mille Lacs Lake area. Two of the three are established golf courses on opposite ends of Mille Lacs.
Did you ever hit a golf ball with a hickory shaft golf club? Meet the person who knows all about hickory shaft clubs. If the opportunity ever presents its self be sure to hit a few shots. Golf is golf, but the skills were very different.
The golf landscape across Minnesota is littered with legendary golf courses. Minnesota’s collage of legendary courses runs from the wilderness courses on the Iron Range to the glut of wonderful resort courses in the Brainerd Lakes Area.
This is a tale of a Great Blue Heron and a Cottonmouth Water Moccasin. We all know that the animal kingdom is a continuous eat or be eaten struggle.
With the Masters being played on a tougher set-up, could Patrick Reed win again. This Golf Psychic story was written after Patrick Reed won the Masters. Many of the questions and answers remain.
Without warning and totally silent an endless parade of pelicans glided past. I had time to find my iPhone, open the camera and snap several shots as these graceful creatures with their wings set and rode the updraft off the bay in perfect formation.
No matter what your passion, there are others who share that sliver of life. This is a story of such a man who has a passion for old hickory shafted golf clubs.
