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Best golf courses near Manistee, MI
Below, you’ll find a list of courses near Manistee, MI. There are 8 courses within a 15-mile radius of Manistee, 8 of which are public courses and are private courses. There are 7 18-hole courses and 1 nine-hole layouts.
The above has been curated through Golf Digest’s Places to Play course database, where we have collected star ratings and reviews from our 1,900 course-ranking panelists. Join our community by signing up for Golf Digest+ and rate the courses you’ve visited recently.
![Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club (Bluffs)](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/2015/11/16/564a24d7bddbe7d62f03832f_Arcadia-Bluffs-Clubhouse-Aerial-Staff.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.406.229.suffix/1573527635886.jpeg)
Can a 100 Greatest course be a sleeper? The Bluffs Course at Arcadia Bluffs has been overshadowed by No. 21 Pacific Dunes ever since it finished second to it in the Best New Upscale Public Course race of 2001. And likewise it’s been second-fiddle to No. 14 Crystal Downs, a northern Michigan neighbor that every visitor wants to play, even though it’s private and Arcadia is public. And even by No. 26 Whistling Straits, the imitation links on the opposite side of Lake Michigan that Arcadia Bluffs resembles, although the sand dunes at Arcadia are natural, not manmade. More recently, the Bluffs faces competition from within, the newly-opened sister layout, the South Course at Arcadia Bluffs, designed by Dana Fry in the style of C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor.
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![Arcadia Bluffs South Course](http://golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/golfdigest/fullset/2018/07/30/5b5f5d15509a680be186fa0f_Arcadia%20Bluffs%2017th%20green%20Chip%20Henderson.jpeg.rend.hgtvcom.406.305.suffix/1573246498843.jpeg)
The challenge at Arcadia Bluffs for architects Dana Fry and Jason Straka was to create a course that guests would want to play as often as they do the original course. But how can golf built on non-descript farmland compete with a course set on dramatic bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan? The answer? Do something entirely different. Channeling another famous but rather indifferent site, the designers turned to Chicago Golf Club and the architecture of C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor for inspiration. The South Course is a throwback in time, a jigsaw puzzle of intersecting bunkers, centerline hazards, alternate routes of play and geometric shaping. It interprets the strategic spirit of Raynor and Chicago Golf Club without replicating any specific holes. Where the Bluffs Course is a feast for the eye, the South Course is a treat for the intellect.
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