Golf in Hastings

Hastings is the county seat of Barry County in the rolling terrain of southwestern Michigan between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, a small city on the Thornapple River whose agricultural and manufacturing heritage reflects the mixed economy of a county that has both farm production and light manufacturing employment. Barry County's position between the two major southwestern Michigan urban centers gives Hastings an independence as a genuine county-seat community with its own commercial and civic identity, rather than functioning primarily as a suburb of either Grand Rapids or Kalamazoo. Multiple golf courses serve the Hastings area's county-seat market in a southwestern Michigan setting.