Oakland Hills Country Club - Michigan, U.S.A.

Oakland Hills Country Club's South Course is one of the landmark, quintessentially American courses. Located in Bloomfield Hills, a suburb of Detroit, the course was originally designed by Donald Ross in 1918, but the Oakland Hills of today reflects the heroic style of Robert Trent Jones. Jones was called in to redesign the course in 1950 so that it would humble the game's best players in the 1951 U.S. Open. Ben Hogan shot a final-round 67 to win the Open that year, and famously declared that he had brought "this monster to its knees." Oakland Hills has one of the most arduous and lovely finishing stretches of parkland holes, with the 16th hole playing along and then across the willow-lined pond to the green. In the 1996 U.S. Open, Tom Lehman and Steve Jones came to the final hole on Sunday in a dead heat. Lehman's tee shot kicked into the bunker at the corner of the pinched fairway, and Jones hit a brilliant second shot to the massive, tiered green to earn his victory. In 2004, Oakland Hills was the site of the European team's drubbing of the U.S. squad in the Ryder Cup.

Tournament Players Club Of Michigan - Michigan, U.S.A.

The Tournament Players Club of Michigan is located in Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit, near the headquarters of Ford Motor Company. Built on 210 acres of land along the Rouge River that had originally been purchased by Henry Ford in 1915, the area had fallen into disrepair over the years and become an industrial dump site. Enter Jack Nicklaus, who was commissioned by the PGA Tour, and Harold Poling, then CEO of Ford, to reclaim the land as a golf course. Opened in 1990, the transformation was complete, as Nicklaus unveiled a tapestry of fairways through the wetlands that come into play on virtually every hole. Since 1991, the course has hosted the Ford Senior Players Championship, one of five majors on the Champions Tour. The 12th hole, a 166-yard par three that plays across the marsh, is particularly difficult.