Bloomfield Hills Country Club

Architect: HS Colt
Restoration: Mike DeVries & Frank Pont
 

Designed in 1913, Bloomfield Hills is the rarest of animals – a course in the North America designed solely by Harry Colt.

In 2019, the club retained Mike and Frank to author a long-term plan providing the framework for the delivery of a structured and faithful restoration. The majority of work was completed in 2021. Mike continues to provide advice regarding the completion of some final elements.

Bunkering has been restored to an early vintage Colt style, margins of the putting surfaces have been reclaimed in order to enhance the topography’s beauty and provide golfers with more options when executing recovery shots around the green. A complete update of the course’s irrigation system took place simultaneously.

The 3rd and 4th holes were redesigned in order to reinstate Colt’s long, challenging par 3 which had been lost during the Great Depression. Additionally, the driving range was widened in order to enhance visibility and provide more teeing space. This was made possible by the creation of a new double fairway shared by the 1st and 18th holes which rolls away from the magnificent clubhouse as a continuous swath of closely mown ground interspersed with bunkers.