League nights
Regular rounds, familiar faces and just enough competition to make the putts matter.
A nine-hole original in Michigan's western U.P.
Nine holes.
No pretense.
Since 1928.
Ontonagon Golf Club is the kind of place golf is supposed to be: strategic, friendly, affordable and just unpredictable enough to keep you coming back around.
9holes
west U.P.
west U.P.
OUT
PAR
YDS
EST.
Ontonagon
35
3,035
1928
Signature
#8
164
VOLCANO
ONTONAGON GOLF CLUB • NINE HOLES • PAR 35 • ESTABLISHED 1928 • FIRESTEEL ROAD • WESTERN U.P. •ONTONAGON GOLF CLUB • NINE HOLES • PAR 35 • ESTABLISHED 1928 • FIRESTEEL ROAD • WESTERN U.P. •
The club in one sentence
A hometown course with a very good memory.
This is not resort golf and it does not try to be. It is nine holes shaped by nearly a century of local play—tree-lined doglegs, reachable scoring chances, long par fives and one raised green that has ruined more than a few perfectly good scorecards.
9Walkable holes with enough variety to make a second loop feel different.
35Par for the nine, with two par 5s, four par 4s and three par 3s.
1928The year Ontonagon decided it needed a golf club of its own.
The loop
Read the course like a scorecard.
Pick a hole and the caddie note changes below. The course asks for something different every few swings: position, patience, nerve, then—on eight—acceptance.
HOLE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
PAR
4
3
4
4
5
5
4
3
3
YARDS
379
144
380
371
547
515
370
164
165
01
The opener
The tee box can pull your eye left. Favor the right side of the fairway and the first approach gets a lot friendlier.
Open the caddie bookThe one everybody talks about
Meet the volcano.
Hole 8 is only 164 yards on the card. The card does not tell you the green rises like an island, sheds indifferent shots and turns routine chips into negotiations.
Best advice: take enough club, aim at the middle and do not get cute.
See hole 8Pinned at the clubhouse
Golf is only half the reason people stay.
Tournament season
Scrambles, memorials, championships and the events golfers in Ontonagon circle every year.
Membership
Your home course, your clubhouse and an easier excuse to squeeze in nine whenever the weather cooperates.
Celebrations
A laid-back place for reunions, graduations and community events with a golf course outside the door.
1928
The first tee, nearly a century ago
One trip. One idea. A club that stayed.
After visiting Portage Lake Golf Club, Newton Cuneo and Roy Muskatt came home convinced Ontonagon should have a course of its own. The organization was established June 11, 1928. Generations later, golfers are still finishing nine and deciding they have time for nine more.
“A hometown course is not just where people play. It is where people keep running into each other.”
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