![]() Completed in August, 1922 it includes 24 room-and-baths for overnight accommodation. Bredin wins inaugural Men's Club Championship (golf), Worden Hunter is runner-up.ġ921: By a vote of the membership, Hagen is made an honorary member of the club.ġ921: Mabel Hawkins wins inaugural Women's Club Championship (golf), Violet Hanley is runner-up.ġ921: 100 maple and 70 elm trees are added to the golf course under the supervision of Donald Ross – mostly around tees to provide shade. ![]() Taking Hagen's advice, the club hires Mike Brady to succeed him.ġ920: L. Open.ġ920: Hagen resigns as Oakland Hills' pro. In the playoff, Hagen beats Brady 77 to 78 to win his second U. Edsel Ford joins in 1919.ġ918: Walter Hagen hired by Joe Mack as club's first professional for $300 per month plus any profits from the sale of golf equipment.ġ919: While "playing out of Oakland Hills" Hagen ties Mike Brady at 301 in the U. Clair River Country Club, 1923 Dearborn Country Club, 1925 Rackham Golf Course, Detroit, 1925 Franklin Hills Country Club, 1926 Western Golf and Country Club, Redford, 1926 Warren Valley Golf Club, Dearborn, 1927 Essex Golf and Country Club, LaSalle, Ontario, 1929.)ġ918: Automotive legends John and Horace Dodge, James Couzens, and Charlie Sorensen become club members. ( Other Ross courses in the area include: Detroit Golf Club, 1916 Monroe Golf and Country Club, 1919 Barton Hills Country Club, Ann Arbor, 1920 Grosse Ile Golf and Country Club, 1920 Roseland Golf and Country Club, Windsor, Ontario, 1921 St. Interestingly, Ross also designs additional back tees for holes five, eight, and 10 so that they, too, can be played as par 5s – 37 out and 38 in for a total par of 75. Originally, par is 35 out and 37 in (72) – number two being the only par 5 on the front, while 12, 14, and 18 are all par 5s on the back. Most of the work is completed by autumn with some of the finishing touches concluded in spring, 1918.ġ918: The South Course is formally opened on July 13. Hatch who serves throughout as superintendent of construction. He tells Joe Mack, "The Lord intended this for a golf course." In his commentaries on golf architecture, Golf Has Never Failed Me, Ross comments: "I rarely find a piece of property so well-suited for a golf course." He designs the South Course around the 10 th and 11 th holes – holes he will later call the finest consecutive par 4s he has ever designed.ġ917-18: Work on the South Course begins on Mawith the arrival of Walter B. The club also has options on 160 additional acres from the German and Leach farms north of Maple Road.ġ916-17: Sometime between late October, 1916 and late January, 1917 Donald Ross first visits the Oakland Hills property. The plan is to use approximately 170 acres for the new club and 80 acres for home sites. In addition, Mack is a member of Bloomfield Hills Country Club and Pine Lake Country Club (at the time known as the Automobile Club of Detroit).ġ916: The first Oakland Hills executive board is made up of Joseph Mack, president Luther Trowbridge, vice president Rawson Harmon, secretary and Alonzo Ewing, treasurer.ġ916: Initial club property purchase, registered December 20, comprises 250 acres from the William Spicer, Edwin Miller, and Frank German farms south of Maple Road. Mack and Hawkins' club memberships include the Detroit Club, Detroit Athletic Club, Country Club of Detroit, Detroit Golf Club, and Detroit Boat Club. He serves as president of the club, 1925-27 and president of the Detroit District Golf Association, 1935-36. After leaving the auto industry he authors two books on sales: The Selling Process and Certain Success. He briefly works for General Motors in 1921-22. ![]() In 1907 Hawkins goes to work for Ford Motor Company as Ford's first general sales manager. He moves to Detroit in 1888 and in 1898 starts Hawkins, Gies and Company, an accounting firm. ![]() He is also a director of the National Bank of Commerce and the Detroit Board of Commerce. He is one of the major developers of Quarton Lake Estates in Birmingham. Mack is also a real estate investor/developer and is a director of several real estate companies. He moves to Detroit in 1892 and in 1901 starts the Joseph Mack Printing House which becomes well known for the creation of catalogues and sales literature for the automobile industry. Joseph Mack is originally from Peterborough, Ontario. It is resolved that there will be 140 charter memberships at a cost of $250 apiece. 1916: Oakland Hills Country Club founded by Joseph Mack and Norval Hawkins at a meeting of 47 friends and associates at the Detroit Athletic Club on October 17.
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