Marquette Golf Club - Heritage Course

Marquette Golf Club's Heritage Course is one of Michigan's hidden architectural treasures, the original front nine was designed in 1926 by William Langford and Theodore Moreau, one of the Golden Age's most prolific partnerships (over 250 courses to their name), and the second nine was added by David Gill in 1969 on hillier terrain across the road from the original. Langford was born in 1887 in Austin, Illinois, took up golf to rehabilitate from childhood polio, won three NCAA golf championships at Yale between 1906-1908, earned a Columbia Master's in Mining Engineering, then spent his career as an architect. His green complexes on the Heritage front nine are the quiet draw, imaginative contouring and classic Golden Age strategic demands. 6,239 yards par-71. Sister course Greywalls (Mike DeVries 2010) gets most of the national attention, but Heritage is the architectural pilgrimage card. Peak green fee $55-85. Fits an Upper Peninsula Michigan trip as the Langford-Moreau heritage round between Greywalls and the Mackinac Island stops.