Blackthorne, Juday Creek and Warren Hills of Notre Dame course in Indiana - Bill Shelton Reports

welcome to the Michigan golfers show with your host bill Shelton join us each week as we explore the people the places and the events that shape our great game welcome to the Michigan golfer mentioned South Bend Indiana and most people immediately think of cheering crowds and scoring touchdowns but for the golfer the South Bend area has another meaning some outstanding Gotham opportunities John Martin our reporter recently toured several of those courses and is going to visit with some of the people who bring the best Gotham possible to you from the rolling hills of Indiana hi I'm John Martin with the golf us we are the publishers of the Indiana golf and travel guide as well as we have a website called golf us calm which features golf courses in Indiana and surrounding states today we'd like to take you on a tour of Indiana and we're going to start out in the northern region the northern courses that we'll be featuring today in Indiana will be Blackthorne Golf Club Warren Golf Course of Notre Dame Judy Creek and Swan Lake Golf Resort my name is Tim fires on the head golf professional here at black thorn golf club in South Bend Indiana the golfers design by dr. Michael Hudson he did a terrific job of mixing traditional golf with modern golf we've got a lot of different types of golf balls out here the golf course is about 70 100 yards from the back tees with a slope of 135 we are nationally ranked fourth best new golf course in 1994 by Golf Digest we are in the top 5 in Indiana and any publication that you would look at we have a terrific golf course here bentgrass tees fairways and greens 18 holes we have a unique thing here at black thrown we have a blarney hole it's the first law you play it's a practice hole it's kind of neat thing doesn't count toward your score but a good way to get warmed up we like to welcome all the Michigan golfers to come play black throwing we have a terrific golf course at a great value for more information please log on to the website at WWF [Applause] hello my name is Ken fry the head golf professional here at the warrant course at the University of Notre Dame horse had opened up in the spring of 2000 designed by bill Corr of Ben Crenshaw home of the University of Notre Dame men's and women's golf teams we're standing here on the 16th hole which is just off of our Clubhouse just a stone's throw from the back door to deceiving par for June 8th Creek to go across on your tee shot and then it's uphill to a very undulating green you'll see the bunkering off to the left-hand side bill coram Ben Crenshaw I have an associate of theirs many of a Jeff Bradley here's their bunker specialist all the courses that they do Jeff handles they're bunkering and sculpts them out of the earth on his own and does a tremendous job that's one of the design aspects for bill Corr and Ben Crenshaw that have gotten to be very well known of and that's Bradley's bunkers like to welcome our neighbors down from Michigan to plants at any time we've got a wonderful golf course can make tee times up to seven days in advance just avoid football weekends because it does tend to get a little busy especially when we have our Michigan neighbors in town for some great football but we have a wonderful golf course love to see you down after this brief break we'll be back to visit Judy Creek and the Swan Lake Resort the home of the United States Academy of golf today's show has been brought to you by golf u.s. the golf us.com website features the world's largest tee time auction where golfers can get on and bid on rounds of golf from over 250 golf courses throughout the Midwest it's an excellent way to check out new courses and and courses that you've been wanting to play for quite some time it's also a great way for golf courses to feature their course to thousands of golfers throughout the internet so check out golf us calm and bid on your next round of golf on our tee time auction welcomed you to Creek Golf Course my name is Brian West I'm one of the golf professionals down here at Judy Creek Golf Course we like to welcome the Michigan golfers down here we're just off to off the toll road on exit 83 the Mishawaka exit what you expect when you come here to judy creek golf courses 18 holes of met fairways tees and greens we have water on 13 our 18 hole and newly renovated bunkers the new pro angle sand the course is more of a link style course with mountings around the greens and the fairways molding the fairways and again we like to welcome you did you decree golf course and for more information you can log on to Judy Creek comm hi my name is Mike Hulse I'm the golf director at the Swan Lake Resort home of the United States Golf Academy in Plymouth Indiana we're located at about 40 minutes south of South Bend Indiana the home of Notre Dame and I'd like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you down and visit our facility we are a 36-hole facility open to the public and we're doing some exciting things here as you can see right behind me there's a new 7,000 square foot Pro Shop and Grill room and we're spending time effort and money to bring Swan Lake up to incredible standards so we cordially invite you to come play one or either one of our golf courses we offer stained play packages available all season long and we also just invite individual groups come down and play for the day our two golf courses are the west and the East the west course has a little bit more of an Old Course flavor it's a little bit more open and most people find it a little bit more user friendly our East off course a little bit newer design a little bit more target golf oriented and we have 14 ponds on the east course 14 ponds gives it a little bit more of a target feel as far as the golf course is concerned and very challenging so again give us a call we have an 800 number it's eight hundred five eight two seven five three nine and come down and visit us I think you'll find the experience enjoyable we'd like to cordially invite you down to play at Swan Lake Resort and you can locate us on our website at SL resort dot-com we hope you've enjoyed the show today and our tour of Indiana and we welcome you to come down here as soon as you can to play some of the fine courses in our state thanks John the South Bend area of Indiana is easily accessible from Michigan and all of the Midwest area why don't you plan to make a trip to the South Bend area to enjoy the fine golf courses this season this is Bill Shelton thanking you for watching a Michigan golfer [Music]