The fairways are plush and the greens are in perfect shape at Hickory Creek Golf Course, Ypsilianti, MI. Many local golfers are saying the greens are the best in the area.
Also, check out our short game practice area and new range balls!
Want to lower your score?
Call Tami at 734-731-0238, to improve your game and strengthen your core!
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NEW TO GOLF?
I offer classes for the new golfer with little or no experience. Learn the fundamentals of the set up, swing, short game and etiquette & rules of the game. Hand-out materials provided. Course includes either 4 one-hour classes for $80.00 or 6 one-hour classes for $105.00. Min-4-Max. 10.
* For more information on all group lessons, click on the scheduled youth and adult lessons below.
Private Lessons Rates with Tami:
$45.00 half hour
$60.00 per 45 minutes
$80.00 1 Hour w/video
$165.00 (4) 1/2 hr. lessons (save $15.00)
$195.00 for (5) 1/2 hr. lessons (save $30.00)
Playing Lessons / Group lessons / Special Clinics
For more info. call: 734-731-0238
E-mail: TrainwithTami@yahoo.com
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Not every person Tami Bealert instructs at Hickory Creek’s “New to Golf” series is a newcomer to the sport.
Consider Thom Bales of Ann Arbor. He’s a tournament winner (The Mulligan Tour, anybody?) who still finds time to tweak his game in Bealert’s weekly class at Hickory Creek Golf Course.
Bales took up golf to about seven years ago, mainly to have something to do with his then-just-retired dad Bill.
“He said he plays golf, so I bought a cheap set of clubs at Meijer and started playing,” Thom Bales recalled.
But it wasn’t until 2010, several years after joining The Mulligan Tour (a for-fun-only junket that visits courses all over southeast Michigan), that Bales decided he could use a little bit of instruction.
“I had a lesson here and there,” he said. “But last year I just wasn’t playing at the level that I thought I should. I knew I needed to bite the bullet.”
A golfing colleague suggested Bealert, a PGA pro at the Superior Township course (just west of Canton), because “he said she was really good with kids. So that made me think maybe she’d be good with me, too.”
Bales laughed when he made that comment, but it’s no joke how the dozen weekly sessions last year — and additional ones this summer — are helping his game.
When he first signed up for Bealert’s class, he had a handicap of 17-18. Now, it’s improved to 11-12.
“It’s a tip culture, there’s all these things you’re supposed to do,” he continued. “One person says do this and another says do that. I think what a teacher or coach helps you do is focus you.”
Bealert is there to keep Bales and other golf students from veering into bad habits — whether with their backswing, follow-through or other aspects of the sport.
For Bales, having a sounding board such as Bealert is good for any golfer.
But so is just having a blast out on the course, which is the mission of The Mulligan Tour.
“The first rule is to have fun,” he said. “And the second rule is to refer to rule number one.”
(Go to www.themulligantour.com for more on the traveling golf tourney.)
BY TIM SMITH
OBSERVER STAFF WRITER
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