Country Club of Detroit

Established in 1897 in 1897, it was established in the year 1897. Country Club of Detroit had an established course shortly after its creation due to its efforts by Bert Way, an English professional golfer and former student of Willie Dunn at Westward Ho! He had immigrated to America earlier in the year to accept an appointment in Shinnecock Hills.

Harry Colt was commissioned to redesign the layout in 1912, and his co-worker Hugh Alison would return during his nine-year American stay to continue making improvements in the 1920s. Robert Trent Jones Sr. completed a major renovation in the 1950s. Keith Foster rebuilt the bunkers in 2005. Tom Doak's Renaissance Golf Design firm rebuilt all of the courses in 2012 restoring the course back to its Colt-Alison origins.

The club has played host to for the US Amateur twice. The first was in 1915, when Robert A. Gardner winning again and the second one was in 1954 the year that Arnold Palmer claimed the Havemeyer Trophy following an extremely narrow victory on the one hole during the championship. The course is also used in an annual professional-am tournament called The Turning Point Invitational which raises funds for Detroit schools.

Tom Doak commented as follows in his January newsletter of 2020:

"When Brian Slawnik did our greens' renovation in the past we worked with the bunker system that was in place and the club then recognized that they don't need all greens that was surrounded by bunkers, asking us to remove the bunkers out!"