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Article: Oakland Hills: a masterpiece // But weather has damaged Ross' course
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 9, 1996
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Donald Ross was America's most prolific golf-course architect,
and arguably its best.
He designed more than 400 courses between 1907 and his death in
1948, some at Chicago's oldest private clubs.
Beverly, Bob O'Link, Calumet, Evanston, Exmoor, Hinsdale, Indian
Hill, LaGrange, Northmoor, Oak Park, Old Elm, Ravisloe and Skokie
have Ross courses.
Ross' best work, however, was probably Oakland Hills' South
course in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., a Detroit suburb.
That layout is the host course for this week's 96th U.S. Open
Championship.
He created this masterpiece in 1917, and legendary tour player
Walter Hagen was the club's first professional.
Only seven years later, the United ...