Forest Lake Country Club is set discreetly in Bloomfield Hills, one of Detroit’s exclusive neighborhoods. Opened in 1926 and designed by Bill Diddel, who returned to remodel the layout in 1959 before Arthur Hills later renovated the course. In the 50s, the club hosted the Women’s PGA and the U.S. Women’s Open.
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Forest Lake Country Club is set discreetly in Bloomfield Hills, one of Detroit’s exclusive neighborhoods. Opened in 1926 and designed by Bill Diddel, who returned to remodel the layout in 1959 before Arthur Hills later renovated the course. In the 50s, the club hosted the Women’s PGA and the U.S. Women’s Open.
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Bloomfield Hills, a wealthy area to the north of Detroit has many notable golf courses. And if anyone does not count Forest Lake Country Club among the others, their bias towards short-distance courses is apparent. Forest Lake is an early 1920s William Diddel course that is still in play for only 6,200 yards, which is much as it was on its first day.
It's not to suggest that the course doesn't have put in effort to keep up-to-date However, it has hired Arthur Hills to come in and redesign a few holes that the membership considered to be holding the course's potential. However, like many classic courses with a short duration, it has a few holes that have retained their appeal despite technological develops.
In the case of Forest Lawn, that hole is its most recognizable hole, par three. 17. Though not a genuine Redan hole, the 205-yard hole will require players to hit longer shots into the fairway's bank slope to the left side of the green, and then guide its ball towards the green to make a birdie in the final round, or perhaps even a win.
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