Roscommon, USA
SkyFall Golf Club is a new private course under construction at Forest Dunes Golf Resort in Roscommon, northern Michigan. Designed by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, the layout traverses 300 acres of forested terrain with elevation changes of up to 70 feet, marking the duo's first original design in Michigan.
SkyFall Golf Club is a new private course under construction at Forest Dunes Golf Resort in Roscommon, northern Michigan. Designed by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, the layout traverses 300 acres of forested terrain with elevation changes of up to 70 feet, marking the duo's first original design in Michigan.
Forest Dunes (Skyfall)
SkyFall Golf Club will bring a private, member-focused layout to northern Michigan's most topographically compelling terrain, routing through 300 acres of forest land within the Forest Dunes complex that already houses courses by Tom Weiskopf and Tom Doak. It will be the first original 18-hole design by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner in the state of Michigan.
Forest Dunes Golf Resort in Roscommon, Michigan, opened its original course — designed by Tom Weiskopf — in 2002, followed by Tom Doak's reversible 18-hole layout The Loop in 2016 and the 10-hole short course The Bootlegger, designed by Keith Rhebb and Riley Johns, in 2021.
In January 2025, the resort's ownership group — Rich Mack and Tom Sunnarborg, who also operate Streamsong Resort in Florida — announced a fourth course: SkyFall Golf Club, designed by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner. The project marks the second time the pair has collaborated with Mack and Sunnarborg, having previously designed Streamsong Black together. Construction was set to begin in late 2025 or early 2026, with an opening provisionally anticipated around 2028.
SkyFall will represent their first original 18-hole design in the state.
SkyFall will occupy a 300-acre forested parcel along the northern border of the Forest Dunes property, set apart from the resort's existing public layouts and not visible from either the Forest Dunes or Loop courses. The routing encounters elevation changes of up to 70 feet, making it the most topographically varied course at the resort.
Both nines extend outward from a central ridge — the site of the planned clubhouse — moving away from and returning to this elevated hub, a structural approach Hanse has drawn from the classic routings of A.W. Tillinghast and Donald Ross.
On the front nine, a prominent ridge dissects the property and serves as the anchor landform around which holes are shaped. Hanse has described a hole modelled on the second at Pine Valley, where the approach carries over an exposed sand barren to a green set atop the ridge.
The design draws architectural references from several Hanse and Wagner projects: the sandy, rustic character of Ohoopee Match Club in Georgia, the naturalistic strategy of Castle Stuart in Scotland, and the tree-framed movement of Les Bordes in France.
Unlike much of their recent work, SkyFall will feature compact, tree-lined corridors rather than the expansive open landscapes typical of courses such as CapRock Ranch. Hanse has cited Boston Golf Club as the closest stylistic comparison for how the holes will move through the landscape.
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