GOLF Magazine features Midnight Golf

A Tom Doak design in downtown Detroit? He’s already on the job

By Alan Bastable, GOLF Magazine

Asking celebrated golf course architect Tom Doak if he’d take time out of his globetrotting schedule to design a practice facility for a grassroots golf program would be a little like asking Frank Gehry to build a tree house for a troop of boy scouts.

We asked anyway.

Three months ago the SI Golf Group approached Doak to tell him about Midnight Golf, a wildly successful youth golf initiative based in a wildly depressed city: Detroit. The program, which operates two nights a week at a local college, employs a lively mix of life-skills workshops, classroom discussions and golf lessons to keep its participants—mostly high school seniors from city schools—out of trouble and on the path to college.

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