Country Club of Detroit
Gross Pointe Farms, Michigan

This wonderful club is blessed to be set within a charming site and has a unique and storied past. The original design was a Colt/Alison 1922 layout that featured bold bunkering and lifted green pads. In the early 1950s, Robert Trent Jones made bunker revisions to the course. Subsequent work was also done in the 1980s and 1990s.

I was engaged to first study the golf course and then prepare a Master Plan for the Nine Hole Short Course as well as the Championship Course, where Arnold Palmer won the 1954 Amateur. In the fall of 2005 I completed an extensive green pad and bunker program on this wonderful course.

"I have had numerous members approach me with accolades of how spectacular the golf course looks. Your attention to detail has certainly paid off. Besides magnificently shaping the bunkers, you were able to increase the size of the greens back to the original Alison greens pads, giving us many additional pin positions. Mr. H. S. Colt and Mr. Alison would be proud of the Country Club of Detroit as it looks today. Again, thank you for bringing the project in three weeks ahead of time and under budget." — William F. Whelan, Vice President of Governors, Country Club of Detroit

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