Boulder Pointe Golf Club

Boulder Pointe Golf Club in Oxford, Michigan is a 27-hole championship facility designed by Conroy-Dewling Associates (James R. Dewling and Pat Conroy), with all three nines, Bluffs, Peaks, and Dunes, opening in 2000. The routings can be combined into three different 18-hole configurations, each with a distinct personality, and all built on a truly unusual site: a reclaimed gravel mine that the developers converted into 15 sparkling blue-green lakes plus dramatic elevation changes that wouldn't otherwise exist in southeastern Michigan's generally flat terrain. The Peaks/Dunes combo plays the toughest at a 138 slope, while Bluffs/Peaks comes in at 132, both genuinely stout tests for a suburban Detroit-area public course. The reclaimed-gravel-mine site gives Boulder Pointe a distinctive visual character: the lakes were formed by flooding the mine pits, and the elevation changes trace the contours of the original mining operation. For the Metro Detroit trip visitor looking for public-access championship golf, Boulder Pointe is the 45-minute-north drive out to Oxford that rewards with a 27-hole resort-caliber facility at honest Michigan muni pricing.