Shanty Creek Resort to Host 108th State Championship

The 2025 Hall Financial Michigan Open Championship returns to northern Michigan to be played on the Cedar River Course at Shanty Creek Resort, the Michigan Section PGA announced.

The 108th edition of the state championship for Michigan’s top golfers will be played June 9-12.

The championship has been conducted the last two years at Oakland University’s Katke Cousins Course and prior to that was played at Grand Traverse Resort near Traverse City for five consecutive years. Hall Financial will be the title sponsor for the fourth consecutive year.

Steve Scheuermann, PGA Director of Golf Operations at Shanty Creek, said he let the Michigan Section PGA know the resort was interested in hosting championship golf.

“It’s precisely what we were hoping for,” he said. “We feel we have tremendous championship golf at Shanty Creek and that lately it wasn’t being talked about as much as some of the other golf courses in Michigan… and having the best golfers in Michigan here gives people a reason to talk about us.”

The Cedar River course, one of five courses at Shanty Creek, is an award-winning design by the late elite PGA Tour golfer and course designer Tom Weiskopf. It opened in 1999 and currently lists a maximum yardage of 7,001 with multiple tee positions. It was World Golf Hall of Fame member’s first course in Michigan and features isolated holes, generous tree-lined fairways, classic natural green settings, significant elevation changes and includes one of his trademark dramatic drivable par 4 holes (301-yard No. 13).

It has been listed on several best-of lists including being named one of America’s Top 100 Resort Courses by Golf Week.