{"id":289190,"date":"2026-04-28T04:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289190\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:17:08","slug":"oakland-hills-country-club-celebrates-reopening-of-clubhouse-4-years-after-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/289190\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Hills Country Club celebrates reopening of clubhouse 4 years after fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/detroit\/news\/firefighters-battling-flames-at-oakland-hills-country-club-in-bloomfield-township\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ripped through a 100-year-old clubhouse<\/a>\u00a0at the Oakland Hills Country Club more than four years ago. On Monday, the country club celebrated its reopening, offering a look inside the new building.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 17, 2022, a propane torch being used by workers caught fire during a patio construction project. No injuries were reported.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In that moment, we didn&#8217;t just lose a building, we lost a familiar setting for life&#8217;s milestones,&#8221; said Marc D. Ray, general manager and chief operating officer at the Oakland Hills Country Club.<\/p>\n<p>More than four years after that fire left the clubhouse a total loss, a new 110,000-square-foot facility is finally open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We celebrate a new chapter, the opening of our new clubhouse to the world, which is witness to our legacy of championship golf and what defines this special place,&#8221; said Michael Costello, president of the Oakland Hills Country Club. \u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>The new clubhouse reopened to its members earlier this month, on Easter. CBS News Detroit got a look inside the regal interior on Monday, which is a replica of the old 100-year-old facility that hosted countless world-famous golfers, dignitaries, and even presidents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new building features artifacts from the club&#8217;s past, giving the interior a more museum-like feel. Many of the artifacts saved during the fire came from legends who played and won championships on the world-renowned course, including Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Ben Hogan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re so happy for Oakland Hills and rising above what happened four years ago,&#8221; said Mark Hill with the U.S. Golf Association.  <\/p>\n<p>The timing of this new clubhouse is not just a big moment for members. Oakland Hills is set to host the U.S. Open in 2034 and 2051 and the U.S. Women&#8217;s Open in 2031 and 2042.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire ripped through a 100-year-old clubhouse\u00a0at the Oakland Hills Country Club more than four years ago. On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[23455,3802,795,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-289190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bloomfield-township","tag-fire","tag-michigan","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}