Golf in Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a small Jackson County community that serves as the gateway to the Irish Hills resort district, where the remarkable concentration of kettle lakes created by glacial retreat has made this part of southern Michigan a vacation destination for generations of families from the Detroit and Toledo metropolitan areas. The Irish Hills' lake character—rolling moraines, clear lakes, the resort traditions of a landscape that has been drawing summer visitors since the nineteenth century—provides the context for golf in a community whose identity is inseparable from the recreational economy of the surrounding lake district. Clark Lake and the other Irish Hills lakes define the recreational context for golf in the Brooklyn area.