Miami Shores Golf Club

Located along the Great Miami River in Troy, Ohio, Miami Shores Golf Course is a municipally owned, daily-fee facility operated by the City of Troy. The course occupies roughly 130 acres and presents 18 holes with rye/bluegrass fairways and bentgrass greens, supported by a full-length driving range, a putting green, a newly renovated clubhouse, pro shop, and grill with outdoor patio seating. Play today measures in the low- to mid-6,000-yard range from the back tees for par 72, and the routing alternates between relatively open corridors and tree-lined stretches, with modest elevation change more evident on the inward nine. The club hosts local leagues and county events and functions as Troy’s principal public venue; it is not a private membership club. The present hole-by-hole experience—e.g., a turtle-back first green, a short but strategic par-5 fifteenth framed by specimen trees, and a long par-5 finisher—reflects a mid-century municipal layout whose features have been updated over time. The site’s architectural attribution to Donald Ross is tied to plans prepared by his office shortly before his death; the course opened in 1949 and remains identified in regional golf histories as one of the last Ross projects brought into play.