Assistant Golf Professional

<p>Bloomfield Hills Country Club is located 20 miles northwest of Detroit, Michigan. Offering golf and fine dining to its 250 members, Bloomfield Hills Country Club is a home away from home. The club averages 11,000-12,000 rounds per year, without tee times, and has 150 caddies during peak season. The Golf Course underwent an extensive restoration back to its H.S. Colt roots in 2020.</p> <p><strong>Club History</strong></p> <p>Bloomfield Hills Country Club was founded in 1909 by a small group of prominent Detroit businessmen, among them: M. H. Chamberlain, ex-Mayor of Detroit; George G. Booth, founder of The Detroit News; Henry Ford founder of The Ford Motor Company, and the Club’s first President Colonel Edwin S. George.</p> <p>In the Spring of 1913, at the Board’s direction, the club’s first professional, Wilbur Oakes, convinced Henry Shapland “Harry” Colt, the famous English golf architect, who was designing a golf course in Highland Park, Illinois (Old Elm Club), to stop in Bloomfield Hills on his way to other venues in Toronto and New Jersey. Being intrigued by the rolling terrain in the Detroit suburbs, Harry Colt advised the Bloomfield Board that if they could purchase fifty more contiguous acres of land, he could most definitely design a superb new golf course for them.</p> <p>Colt’s routing of the course was completed in short measure, but, as was his custom, he left the physical building of the course to others, and he continued on his travels to the Toronto Golf Club, and then on to assist George Crump in laying out Pine Valley Golf Club. It so happened that 1913 would be Colt’s last trip to North America, as the escalation of World War I, hindered further leisure investment.</p> <p>By June 1915, the new Bloomfield Hills Country Club golf course was opened for membership play, as the Detroit Free Press reported, “The new golf course, laid out by Harry Colt, English expert, is completed and will rank with the finest in the middle west.”</p>