These days moms are always telling kids to quit playing video games and get out of the house and parents practiced what they preached and visited the Michigan Golf Show by the thousands this weekend. While Michigan weather did not consistently turn nice last year until late May, mother nature can always play nice and that is just what metro Detroiters need to hear in order to turn out for the largest golf show in the state.
Greg Smith, founder of the Michigan Golf Show operates multiple golf shows in the Midwest and started the shows with the high handicapper in mind. “We started the golf show 22 years ago and we wanted to start something that is not hoity toity,” said Smith.
An estimated several thousand golfing enthusiasts were trolling the sixteen isles at any one time to see over 250 exhibitors which include many golf resorts in the upper lower peninsula. If the golf course was connected to a hotel, resort or a casino, chances are they were offering a golf package to attract both couples and golf outings. The hook was to offer a lottery style drawing where your entry could win you the time of your life and the courses add to their mailing lists while you perhaps take home the big prize. Plenty of metro Detroit courses are represented and while most do not have hotels connected to their courses, Kensington Metro Park offered two- for-one golf to any golfer who purchased a 2012 visitor sticker for their vehicles. Fieldstone Golf Course, a daily fee municipal course in Auburn Hills is an Arthur Hills designed course that is rated as of the finest in southeast Michigan and offered greens fee packages to entice golfers to play it often. PGA Professional and Manager Gordon Marmion. This year Fieldstone will host several junior tours in 2012.
Plenty of equipment was on display at the show from various vendors and shoppers were quick to shop for bargains. I love the golf show. It always gets us in the mood for spring. I always pick up some vouchers for golf and sign up for some outings,” said Beth Kulie of Farmington. Golf exhibitors will be happy to hear that Kulie like many others is in the mood to buy. Kulie added that a friend of hers just bought clubs at Maple Hill, a vendor this past weekend and Kulie also looks forward to purchasing from various people showcasing their goods.
The golf show also features vendors that create their own products, chiropractors and several vendors that offered various jerky products.
It all comes down to the economy and whether golfers have the extra money to play early and often and this golf show takes the consumers spending temperature.
“This year they have been doing great. Traffic has been steady and the economy has been rebounding from years past,” said Greg Smith. If Mother Nature and Uncle Sam cooperates, golfers will fill the various courses and everyone will be happy.
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