Detroit Golf Club

Donald Ross designed Detroit Golf Club's North and South Courses in 1916 on a piece of Detroit, Michigan property north of downtown, working through his Boston office during the prolific stretch that produced Hollywood, Plainfield, Inverness, and Aronimink in the same year-range. Detroit Golf Club is one of the oldest American clubs founded by African-American golfers — the club operates with a mixed membership today, but the early-1900s history of integrated club golf in Detroit is part of the institutional record. The PGA Tour's Rocket Mortgage Classic has been played at the North Course every June since 2019, giving the Ross routing significant modern Tour exposure during the post-2010s resurgence of Detroit's downtown.

The North Course plays around 7,370 yards par 72 from the championship markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. Tour scoring averages run low at Detroit Golf Club — the course typically yields winning totals in the mid-twenties under par — because the Ross routing's defense was the green complexes and the equipment that modern Tour-level ball-striking has overcome. The fifteenth hole is a 491-yard par-4 with a green set behind a creek crossing; the seventeenth, a 218-yard par-3 across a natural pond, is the routing's most-televised mid-round hole. Andrew Green's 2017-2019 restoration brought the bunkers and green complexes back closer to Ross's original lines.

Detroit Golf Club is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Detroit business and professional families with the institutional history of mixed-race membership as part of the club's identity. The Tour-rotation hosting since 2019 has been the primary modern tournament exposure, and the club has invested in continuous restoration to keep the North Course at tour-readiness standard.

Detroit area climate gives Detroit Golf Club a playing season of April through October, with the firmest conditions in June (the Rocket Mortgage Classic window). The mature tree canopy through the routing keeps the property cooler in mid-summer than the surrounding suburban Detroit area. The course closes through Michigan winter and reopens when the soil thaws.