GAYLORD, Mich. (WGN) — A circular of storms connected Tuesday nighttime near down an absorbing astonishment astatine a bluish Michigan resort.

Groundskeepers astatine the Treetops Resort's Smith Tradition Golf Course successful Gaylord, Michigan, arrived Wednesday greeting to find a lightning bolt had struck the course's 11th fairway.

But to adjacent greater surprise, the lightning onslaught near down a unsocial branching signifier successful the grass.

(Photo courtesy of Treetops Resort successful Gaylord, Michigan)

Officials from the edifice shared photos of the signifier near down in a Facebook post connected Wednesday morning.

"What you're seeing present is simply a crushed onslaught that deed the 11th fairway of the Smith Tradition during a lightning storm," the station read, successful part.

The branching signifier near down is known arsenic a Lichtenberg figure, which forms erstwhile energy moves done oregon crossed an insulating material, similar plastic, wood oregon skin.

(Photo courtesy of Treetops Resort successful Gaylord, Michigan)

The figures are the effect of a high-voltage electrical complaint that builds up and abruptly discharges, which creates a way done the material. The accelerated question past leaves down the pattern.

Groundskeepers astatine the edifice bash not look upset with Mother Nature's artwork, arsenic they accidental lightning strikes tin really beryllium beneficial for the grass.

"Turf extremity of the day: Lightning tin merchandise nitrogen successful the soil, which tin really beryllium precise bully for the grass. This is wherefore the writer ever looks greener the time aft a storm," the station said.