Article: Ryder Cup changes Oakland Hills.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Carlos Monarrez

DETROIT _ Like mounted cavalry they sat Monday morning, ready to lay siege on the ground before them, ready to fire the opening salvo in this war of attrition.

So, as construction workers started their vehicles and prepared for a long day of droning noise, those beeps and honks and throaty rumblings of heavy machinery were all part of the unmistakable sound of the Ryder Cup coming to Oakland Hills Country Club.

The work that began this week will transform part of the North Course's eighth hole that runs along Maple Road in Bloomfield Township into a depot for buses and shuttles. The depot will serve as the arrival point ...

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