Golf in Gobles

Gobles is a small Van Buren County city in the agricultural interior of southwestern Michigan, a community in the fruit-growing and livestock farming country between Paw Paw and South Haven. Van Buren County's fruit-belt character—grapes, peaches, blueberries, and the diverse fruit production that the lake-effect climate near Lake Michigan supports—gives the Gobles area an agricultural identity rooted in the fruit industry that has defined this part of west Michigan's economy since the late nineteenth century. Golf near Gobles serves the rural and small-city market of a Van Buren County community in the agricultural interior.