Oakland Hills Golf Club

Oakland Hills Golf Club opened as a nine-hole course in July of 1973. A second nine was added four years later. George, known to his customers and friends as "George Vello" immigrated to The United States of America in the early 1950’s. As a novice golfer in his new country, he was invited to visit a local country club. That golf course looked like paradise to him and the seed was planted to build his own course one day. A scratch golfer most of his career, he held the course record at Oakland Hills for many years.

Advertised as "The Best Greens Anywhere," Michigan State University Turfgrass Program described our exceptionally pure and soft bentgrass greens as the best in the tri-state area. Gently rolling maple and fir-lined fairways wind past brooks, ponds and woods. The club house is an 1860’s country mansion said to have been used during the Civil War as an Underground Railroad stop as well as a safe-house for Al Capone and his Chicago gang during the 1920’s. In the final years before the construction of the golf course, the house, built in the “Italianate” style, served as the living quarters for a family of dairy farmers.

Golf Course Address:
11619 H Dr N
Battle Creek, MI

Phone Number: (214) 748-3647

Oakland Hills Golf Club Web Site

Driving Direction GPS Coordinates:
42.261007 -85.178977