On Monday afternoon, 17-year-old Leticia Gittens was among 130 or so high-school seniors who helped Tom Doak usher in his latest design, a five-hole short course on the leafy campus of Marygrove College.

Supermodel Niki Taylor made an appearance downtown today on behalf of Reader’s Digest to present the city with a $1,000 check that will benefit the Midnight Golf Program that helps teach life skills to students.

Midnight Golf was featured in GOLF Magazine in the June 2010 issue. The article was written by Alan Bastable.

Golf is not the kind of thing you expect to thrive in any metro center—and as for the Detroit area, well, you know, golf is reserved for those tony folks outside of town in their country clubs, right?

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.