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Few venues in American golf carry the weight of Oakland Hills. The South Course — the one that has defined the club's legacy — has hosted more combined USGA and PGA of America championships than virtually any other course in the country, including multiple U.S. Opens, the Ryder Cup, and the PGA Championship. It was Ben Hogan who gave the course its permanent nickname after his 1951 U.S. Open victory, calling it "the Monster" — a name earned honestly through its demanding length, its penal rough, and Donald Ross's original 1917 design later sharpened by Robert Trent Jones Sr. into something even more severe.
The club sits in Bloomfield Hills, one of the wealthier suburbs north of Detroit, where Michigan's hardwood forests frame fairways that have humbled the greatest players of every generation. The terrain rolls with genuine purpose, and the bunkering remains some of the most strategically placed in the country.
This is a pilgrimage destination for anyone who cares about the history of the game — a course where the architecture and the record books are inseparable.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLACK · men | 6,908 | 74.6 | 138 | 70 |
| GOLD · men | 6,622 | 73.2 | 135 | 70 |
| BLUE · men | 6,387 | 71.6 | 132 | 70 |
| WHITE · men | 6,036 | 69.7 | 131 | 70 |
| SILVER · men | 5,555 | 67.6 | 127 | 70 |
| SILVER · women | 5,555 | 73.6 | 134 | 70 |
| GREEN · women | 5,053 | 70.1 | 127 | 70 |
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