Detroit CC, 1915 -- WITH PICTURES NOW!!

[Adam Lawrence]

Mr Colt's Detroit CC course, as it played for the US Amateur in 1915:

[Thomas Dai]

Nice post Adam.
A quick look shows a difference in the plans between 'Bunker' and 'Sand trap'. And "High Grass' is specified as well.
The use of the diagonal stream on many of the holes is interesting.

atb

[Tom_Doak]

Adam:


Good find!  I have never seen these before.


The course depicted is much different than today's course because much of it occupied different land.  The original routing used a bit of the present course, and a bit of the club's short course, but the other half of the holes ran toward the lake and then back, through what is now a residential neighborhood in Grosse Pointe Farms.  The re-routing was done by Hugh Alison who kept his office in Detroit in the mid-20's while working on all of the "Colt and Alison" designs in the upper midwest.