Course Bucket List Part 1

Everyone has a bucket list and want to accomplish things before they die. I have one too, well I have a few aimed in different categories. For the golfing aspect, I have a course bucket list. It is what it sounds like. I have quite the list of golf courses I want to play at before I die. I find this list to be challenging because not only are the courses extremely expensive, but not all of them are open to public. So i do have a few bumps in the road. The list is at least categorized by state and country. Believe it or not Michigan is home to a few very nice courses that are well known.
Starting with the number one golf course in Michigan. Crystal Downs (picture above) is in Frankfort. The course sits right between Lake Michigan and Crystal Lake. So you get a view of both lakes during your round of golf. It was ranked tenth in the United States for best golf courses by Golf Digest. Which makes me want to play it even more. But a downfall of the course is that it's a private course. So it would be extremely hard for me to at least touch the practice greens. Next up is the course that I've been practically drooling over for years now. Arcadia Bluffs,(picture below) located right on Lake Michigan in Arcadia. This course has had me in awe ever since I saw it in a golf magazine. It is ranked 3rd in Michigan according to Golf Digest. Just looking at pictures of it shows how beautiful the course is. I couldn't imagine what it actually looks like in real life. Good thing about this course is that it is a public course and I could go there whenever I wanted. I just need to save around $150 and I can play all eighteen. The reason why its so expensive is because the course is one of the best in the U.S. as well. It was rated one of the best public courses in the U.S. at 10th and ranked 24th for the best courses in the country. I am going to golf there one day, way way in the future. First, I need to have that money to blow on one round of golf, but most important I need to improve my golf game. Quite frankly, I suck a tad bit to much to be golfing there just yet.