Manistee National Golf & Resort in Northern Michigan.
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You may never get a chance to own a golf course.
But now you have an opportunity to put your name on one.
And you’ll even get up to $10,000 to do so.
Manistee National Golf & Resort, in northern Michigan, has created a contest to rename its two 18-hole courses. You can win $5,000 if you rename the 6,517-yard course formerly known as Canthooke Valley. You can win $5,000 if you rename the 6,654-yard course formerly known as Cutters’ Ridge. Entries can be submitted through Dec. 28 on the Manistee National website.
“We like to think of this contest as our own little stimulus package,” said Kirsten Moriarty, sales director at Manistee National, told MLive.com. “The winning names will be rolled out in the 2021 season, so we are excited to see what everyone comes up with.”
Some help. According to Manistee National’s website, Cutters’ Ridge “is the tougher of the two — she’s deadly beautiful. An off day can find you sacrificing quite a few Pro V1s to her woods and marshes.” Canthooke Valley, meanwhile, “is considered the easier of the two; the antithesis to the former ‘Cutters’ Ridge.’ A good way to think of it might be ‘good vs. evil’ or maybe ‘oil and water.’”
“This has been a wild year, full of uncertainty for everyone. So instead of finding an outside firm to rebrand, we thought it’d be better to go right to the people and get them involved,” Moriarty told MLive.com. “We think winning this contest would be a great way to start off the new year.”
Nick Piastowski is a Senior Editor at Golf.com and Golf Magazine. In his role, he is responsible for editing, writing and developing stories across the golf space. And when he’s not writing about ways to hit the golf ball farther and straighter, the Milwaukee native is probably playing the game, hitting the ball left, right and short, and drinking a cold beer to wash away his score. You can reach out to him about any of these topics — his stories, his game or his beers — at nick.piastowski@golf.com.
