“Yes, it’s been on a rise for quite a while, and we hope to keep that going,” GM Tony Mancilla recently told me. The resort has also created the very successful sister golf course, Sage Run, and expanded their on-site hotel towers to 454 rooms, the most in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula region north of Milwaukee. Ultimately ascended to the 2022 title of National Golf Course of the Year from the National Golf Course Owners Assoc

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