After World War I, leaders at the Muskegon Country Club employed Donald Ross to confirm the choices of Bendelow's original design and upgrade the golf course to an even higher degree of play and credibility. After Donald Ross saw Muskegon Country Club, he claimed, ″The fact is, you have the most wonderful piece of property for a golf course I have ever seen." Ross tweaked Bendelow's design and improved upon it. He affirmed the fan design. "It gives you an opportunity to place your clubhouse at the handle of the fan and then layout two loops of nine holes each of either side from it. The first tee, ninth green, tenth tee, and eighteenth green are then all the handle of the fan." Ross said. The Bendelow and Ross legacy benefited from two masters of golf course design. Ross worked with the Muskegon Country Club or over the next ten years, improving fairway locations, new grasses, and new bunkers.
