“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 Has won numerous golf awards for design, beauty and playability In the short years since the Sweetgrass Golf Club opened on the site owned by the Hannahville Indian Community, just north of Escanaba, Sweetgrass Golf Club has: The demand was partially due to a golfing boom in lower northern Michigan that extended up into the scenic U.P. In the case of Island Resort & Casino in the Upper Peninsula, exceptional growth and demand for golf has been their reality since the day Sweetgrass Golf Club opened 15 years ago. Slow and steady growth is a common mantra to business professionals and organizations. Celebrating 15 years of golfing excellence at Sweetgrass Golf Club By Tom Lang
