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In recent years, golf has gone from a leisurely sport to a multi-billion dollar industry as many areas, including northern Michigan, have wit­nessesed an inundation of courses all trying to one-up their competition.

But, contrary to form, carved out from the woods that border the coast of Lake Michigan in Arcadia, Chestnut Hills Golf Course has a story as rich as the neighboring farm land.

A photo album that sits inside the clubhouse provides a pictorial account of not just the building of a golf course, but also the growth of a family.

While glancing at the landscape behind the clubhouse, Jackson Carter, son of owner Doug Carter said, “This is pretty much home.”

Jackson, a junior at Michigan State University, is spending his summer much like he has for the last 15 years - tending to his home. He and his three sisters (twins Lindsay and Erynn, 26, and Morgan, 23) grew up doing everything from cutting grass to gluing 20-foot sec­tions of pipe together for irrigation.