Golf in Clare

Clare is a small Clare County city in the geographical center of the Lower Peninsula, a community that markets itself as the 'Gateway to the North' on US-10 where the flat agricultural southern Michigan plain transitions toward the rolling forests and lakes of the northern resort country. Clare's position on the demographic and ecological boundary between agricultural and resort Michigan gives it a commercial character oriented toward serving northbound travelers—gas stations, fast food, hunting and fishing supplies—alongside the county-seat functions that serve the surrounding Clare County population. Golf in Clare serves the county seat's residential community and the travelers who stop in this transitional community.