TRAVERSE CITY, MI. – Feb. 2, 2005 – Jack Nicklaus, Tom Doak and Arnold Palmer may have added the finishing touches to Traverse City’s awe-inspiring golf terrain, but it was an ancient glacier that did all the heavy lifting.

Massive dunes, drumlins and moraines, left behind some 8,000 years ago by retreating ice sheets, give this place a distinctive landscape of long hills, narrow valleys and iridescent lakes that has attracted generations of golfers here to Michigan’s “Golf Coast.” Golf Magazine calls it “America’s summer golf capital.” Golf Digest awarded it the Number Twelve spot on its list of the world’s Greatest Golf Destinations. And all 13 of the Traverse City area’s best courses are profiled in the new 2005 edition of the Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau’s popular Golf Guide.

The lavishly-illustrated 36-page booklet features detailed listings of local courses, from The Wolverine (the first Gary Player signature course in Michigan) and Arnold Palmer’s intimidating King’s Challenge, to Jack Nicklaus’s intimidating design at The Bear, Tom Doak’s two-toned tour de force at High Pointe, and Jerry Matthews’s brand new course, Sundance, at A-Ga-Ming. The Golf Guide also includes a complete listing of local hotels and resorts that offer specially priced packages for golfers.

To request a free copy of the new Traverse City Golf Guide, call the Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau toll-free at (800) Travers or log on to the Bureau’s Web site at www.mytraversecity.com