Fortress, The

The Fortress is a Public, 18 hole golf course located in Frankenmuth, Michigan. Frankenmuth, has built it's reputation on enormous Christmas stores and family-style chicken restaurants.

The Fortress Golf Course added golf to the mix. The course opend in 1992. The Fortress was designed by Dick Nugent.

The Fortress reflects characteristics of golf's early Scottish origins. Fescue-covered mounds reveal well-guarded, sectioned greens. Bent-grass tees, greens and fairways surround 75 bunkers. Each of the huge greens average 7,500 square feet. The Fortress encompasses 6,813 yards of formidable play on an 18-hole, par 72 course. The fariways offer generous driving areas. Well-bunkered huge greens await your approach shots. The main hazard one will face are tall fescue lining the fairways with some water and forested areas mixed in. Many of the fairways have bunkering to frame the driving areas and the course has 75 bunkers in total.