Ten dollars bought a membership in 1899, Henry Ford later paid his dues here, and Aretha Franklin is believed to have recorded an album in her house beside the seventh hole. The Detroit Golf Club at 17911 Hamilton Road, in a leafy neighbourhood beside the University of Detroit Mercy and the Palmer Woods Historic District, was founded in 1899 by piano-and-organ businessman William R. Farrand and a circle of friends, starting as a six-hole course on rented farmland at Six Mile and Woodward with me.....

Bobby Jones played his first round of golf here and his last, and the course that raised him now crowns the PGA Tour's season every September. East Lake Golf Club at 2575 Alston Drive SE, five miles east of downtown Atlanta, was established in 1904 when the Atlanta Athletic Club - whose athletics director was John Heisman, of trophy fame - bought a former amusement-park tract in DeKalb County and had Tom Bendelow lay out the city's first golf course. The 18-hole course and clubhouse opened on 4 .....

Designed by master golf architect William Flynn and opened for play on Memorial Day 1928, Lehigh Country Club occupies roughly 205 acres along the Little Lehigh Creek in the rolling hills of the Lehigh Valley near Allentown, Pennsylvania. Flynn, whose portfolio includes Shinnecock Hills and The Country Club at Brookline, crafted a routing that exploits 105 feet of elevation change across a parkland setting framed by specimen trees and intersected by the stream. The club's origins trace to the e.....