Black Lake Golf Course

Course Type: Semi-Private

Design Role: New Design 2000

Co-Designer(s): Greg Muirhead

Client Course Description

While many courses have two or three so-called signature holes that are worthy of brochure status, every hole at Black Lake Golf Club could easily be on the front cover of a magazine promoting the course. The course is owned by the UAW, who selected one of golf’s most acclaimed course architects, Rees Jones, to design an environmentally responsible, championship caliber course.

Designer Notes

Semi-private design constructed as an amenity of the United Auto Workers, Walter & May Reuther Family Education Center. The layout, framed by mature hardwoods and evergreens, incorporates natual wetlands, native sand pits and several ponds.

Awards

• Golf Digest: Runner Up, Best New Upscale Public Courses 2000
• Golf for Women: America's Top 50 Public Courses for Women
• Golf Digest: America's 100 Greatest Public Courses

News

Rees Jones' Black Lake GC a Perennial Top 100 Public Course (PDF)

Black Lake Golf Club: A Rees Jones Course Well Worth The Drive