![]() ![]() 'There's so much history, so much wonder here,' Rebecca Robinson told WDIV-TV. 'It's hard to talk when you're crying,' longtime Oakland Hills member Greg Kampe told the Detroit News' Tony Paul. That course reopened to club membership last summer following a $12.1 million restoration project. The club, which opened in 1916 and hosted Tiger Woods's final amateur event in 1996, has hosted more than a dozen major golf championships on its South Course. There have been renovations at the club since 2019, when members agreed to spend $12 million to make the courses more attractive to major PGA Tour events, which have yet to return to Oakland Hills since 2008. #OLD SCREENSAVERS 1996 FREE#The sprawling, multi-story clubhouse, which was completed in 1922, is adorned with irreplaceable golf tournament memorabilia and art going back a century, the Detroit Free Press reported. The club has a reported membership of just 750. Photos posted by The Detroit News showed flames leaping from the roof, but no injuries were reported. Published: 16:54 GMT, 17 February 2022 | Updated: 00:34 GMT, 18 February 2022įirefighters in Michigan on Thursday battled a blaze at an exclusive, century-old country club in suburban Detroit that's hosted several major golf tournaments.Ĭrews worked to douse flames at the clubhouse of the Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, police said. Tiger Woods played his final amateur event at Oakland Hills in 1996īy Associated Press and Alex Raskin Sports News Editor For.The 750-member club charges $8,400 annually, and that comes after a $72,000 initiation fee, according to the Detroit News. ![]()
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