Michigan's Upper Penninsula not too far from Whistling Straits

The talk up here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is all about PGA Championship at Whistling Straits this week and, of course, whether Tiger Woods will be a factor. Whistling Straits, which is located in Kohler, Wisconsin, is little more than 150 miles from several good golf courses in the UP.
In truth, the UP feels more like Wisconsin than Michigan does sometimes. They are both part of the same land mass, and you will find many more fans than your Green Bay Packers Detroit Lions fans will be in Marquette, Mich. Of course, the Packers have much better track record, too.
For those who find their way into the PGA Championship in Kohler, it would be good to make for a nice distraction. The Island Hotel Casino are very playable and interesting Sweetgrass Golf Club on his property.
Designed by Paul Albanese, who used to work for Jerry Matthews, Sweet Grass has vast fairways and greens, an island green, a double green you could find a small jet and an even larger green on a par 3, where the pin placement can a five country-club difference. It's fun because it's hard to lose a ball - but not impossible with areas of native grass catching the really big shots.
The resort offers a reasonable package and golf packages to play for about $ 250 for two nights and rounds at the Sweet Grass and Mike de Vries Grey Walls designed Course at Marquette Golf Club and Golf Club on Pine Timber Stone Mountain to take. They are all within an hour and a half mile apart, and all are very different.
Grey Walls is probably unlike anything you've ever seen. With the enormous height, it offers a lot of ego-boost tee shots and numerous unusual rock outcroppings around the greens and fairways to give as many pleasant and bad bounces.
Matthews Timber Stone is a design that most traditional of the three boxes represent. It has tree-lined rolling fairways, undulating greens and many doglegs. And if you hang long enough, you can trade your clubs for skis in the Pine Mountain Resort, which opened in 1939 by Fred Pabst of Pabst Blue Ribbon glory. But judging from temperatures this week, in the mid 80s, which seems a long way to go.