Detroit Golf Club

Detroit Golf Club was founded in 1899 and sits inside the city itself rather than out in the suburbs, which is unusual for a private club of its vintage and is the single most distinctive thing about it. The golf is attributed to Donald Ross, the most prolific architect in American club golf, and runs to eighteen holes. The club pairs that with clubhouse dining, a fitness centre, swimming and tennis, a spread that suggests a full family club rather than a golf-only membership. What the club does not publish is anything about the cost or the route to joining: no initiation figure, no dues schedule, no statement of whether a sponsor is required. That silence is itself informative about the kind of club this is, and we would rather record it plainly than publish an estimate nobody at the club has confirmed.