Tullymore

Jim Engh designed Tullymore in 2002 on a piece of Stanwood, Michigan Lower Peninsula land in the central Michigan agricultural region. Engh — a Colorado-based architect known for dramatic moundwork and large-scale earthwork — routed the eighteen holes through created topography that bears little resemblance to the natural farmland that the property occupied before construction. The course has a distinctive visual identity within the broader Michigan resort-golf landscape, with severe mounding alongside the fairway corridors and the Engh signature of dramatic, almost cinematic routing decisions.

The course plays around 7,148 yards par 72 from the championship markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 140s. Engh's design vocabulary emphasizes the visual drama of the routing as much as the strategic-play demands — the mounding alongside the fairways visually narrows the corridors while the actual playing widths remain generous. The seventh hole is a 539-yard par-5 with a fairway that bends right around an artificial mound stand; the seventeenth, a 218-yard par-3 across a natural depression, is the routing's most-discussed one-shotter. The bunkers carry Engh's signature deep, steep-walled style.

Tullymore is open to public daily-fee play at premium rates with discounts for St. Ives Resort lodging guests. The property also includes the St. Ives Course — a different routing on the same property — and visitors typically play both courses across a destination stay. The hospitality model emphasizes the multi-course property experience.

Central Lower Michigan climate gives Tullymore a playing season of April through October, with the firmest conditions in August and September. The course closes through Michigan winter and reopens when the soil thaws — typically late April. The created topography and the Engh design vocabulary give the property visual signature unlike most other Michigan resort routings.