Oakland Hills Paintings and Prints

Oakland Hills Country Club, in Bloomfield Township north of Detroit, was founded in 1916, and its South Course, designed by Donald Ross, opened in 1918. Early members included some of the leading figures of the Detroit auto industry. The club's North Course, also by Ross, followed a few years later.

Before the 1951 U.S. Open, Robert Trent Jones remodeled the South, narrowing the fairways and adding bunkers at the distance where players' drives landed. The result was so severe that only two scores under par were recorded all week. Ben Hogan won with a final-round 67 and said afterward that he was glad to have brought "this monster" to its knees; the South has been called the Monster ever since. Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner restored much of Ross's original character in a renovation completed in 2021.

The 16th is its most famous hole, a par 4 that bends right around a pond, with the green set just beyond the water. At the 1972 PGA Championship, Gary Player hit his approach over a willow tree and the pond to within a few feet of the hole and went on to win.

Oakland Hills has hosted the U.S. Open six times, in 1924, 1937, 1951, 1961, 1985 and 1996, the PGA Championship in 1972, 1979 and 2008, the 2004 Ryder Cup, and U.S. Amateurs in 2002 and 2016.

Linda Hartough's Oakland Hills painting is of the 16th, from the 1996 U.S. Open.

The Oakland Hills print is available as a print on fine art paper, in a limited edition, at 15 3/8"x27".