The Country Club of Whispering Pines falls under the radar of most golfers traveling to Pinehurst. Its 36 holes by Ellis Maples are just minutes from the village. The longer Pines Course is an "inland links", while the River Course requires more accuracy. Guests can stay in condo suites or in a standard hotel-style room with access to a fitness…
Talamore Golf Resort and Mid South are sister properties with semi-private golf courses and onsite accommodations in Southern Pines, N.C. near the Village of Pinehurst. The two facilities are located 2.3 miles from one another door-to-door. Both feature mostly 2- and 3-bedroom villa accommodations with full kitchens, while there are also a small…
Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club is a historic North Carolina Sandhills getaway. It is home to an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Donald Ross and a host of the U.S. Women's Open. The lodge features 74 guest rooms overlooking the course, as well as chalet-style lodges for groups of 8-20 within walking distance of the course. Amenities of…
Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club is a historic property in Southern Pines, North Carolina. It's located across the street from its sister property, Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club (the two properties have stay-and-play packages featuring both courses, as well as Southern Pines Golf Club). Mid Pines is a Donald Ross design that was recently extensively…
Set in the North Carolina Sandhills, Pinehurst Resort is one of the country's most historic golf getaways, founded by William J. Tufts in 1895. Originally conceived as a wellness retreat for northern city dwellers, it soon became a golf hotbed after guests were spotted hitting balls with sticks on a lawn. Tufts hired Scotsman Donald Ross shortly…
The Legacy Golf Links is a Jack Nicklaus design minutes from the famous Village of Pinehurst. The routing flows around five lakes. Legacy Golf Packages feature lodging throughout the region (some choices, from two- and three-bedroom condos to inns and hotels, are not at the course). Rounds from 18 other area courses, including Mid Pines and Pine…
Tobacco Road lives on as a tribute to the artistry of its architect, the late Mike Strantz. It's a wild and wonderful ride through the North Carolina Sandhills that's full of surprises. There's only one place to stay, the rustic two-bedroom, two-bathroom Stewart Cabin behind the par-3 14th green, so book early for this special experience.
The Anderson Creek Club is a 1,700-acre gated community where new homes and resort amenities keep residents and guests satisfied. It is the nearest gated community to Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, N.C., and 45 minutes south of Raleigh, N.C. A comfortable inn near the clubhouse allows golfers to stay in suites with one king bed or two queen beds,…
The golf mecca of Pinehurst/Aberdeen/Southern Pines touts itself as the "Home of American Golf." More than 40 courses call the heart of North Carolina's Sandhills home. Golf courses line Midland Road heading into the historic village of Pinehurst. Donald Ross, the legendary Scot who made his home here, left a lasting legacy by designing Pinehurst No. 2; Pine Needles and Mid Pines, among others.
Pinehurst No. 6 represents the first step in the next generation of golf at the renowned resort. The first golf course built away from the main clubhouse, elevated tees abound on the No. 6 course and it features several spectacular holes, particularly on the back nine. It's a worthy championship test, Brandon Tucker writes.
It's certainly possible to play 36 holes of golf each day and still be in fighting shape. It's just so much easier if a spa treatment is thrown into the mix. If you're playing golf at Pinehurst Resort, The Spa at Pinehurst is the place. From the time you walk through the doors of this impressive 31,000-square-foot-facility, you start decompressing, Katharine Dyson writes.
No golf resort on this side of the Atlantic combines the game's tradition with modern amenities like Pinehurst Resort. Situated on 2,000 acres of Carolina Sandhills, the resort and its eight courses, highlighted by the championship No. 2, rank as an American golfing mecca.
The link between St. Andrews and Pinehurst is strong, beginning with Donald Ross, who came to Pinehurst in 1900 after studying under Old Tom Morris in St. Andrews, and stayed until his death in 1948. The two spots are both among the game's most coveted destinations for the majors they host, and their pure golf atmosphere is impossible to duplicate. It's a friendly rivalry, of course, but it's time for a showdown: Scotland's "Home of Golf" vs. the United States' most worthy contender.
The North Carolina Sandhills are golfing country, anchored by the Pinehurst Resort, home to eight courses built between 1897 and 2004. Few visitors have time to play them all on one trip, especially if you plan on tackling some off-property courses like Pine Needles or Tobacco Road G.C., so we've compiled a briefing on each to help you decide which to include in your itinerary.
The conversion from bentgrass to Champion ultradwarf bermuda grass should help the greens at Pinehurst No. 2 ward off the heat of summer and stay in better shape year-round.
The greens at Pinehurst No. 2 were the pride and joy of legendary architect Donald Ross. But the famed No. 2, host of the U.S. Open in 1999 and 2005, offers more to the golfing community than its complex putting surface. The golf course is a masterpiece, writes Brandon Tucker, and set to undergo a facelift in advance of another set of important visitors in 2014.
Mike Ritz visited Pinehurst Resort in order to play the historic No. 2 Course for the first time since the restoration by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. "The entire experience is delightful," he writes.
Pinehurst might be North Carolina's most famous region for premier golf resorts, but the state's 10 best golf resorts go beyond the Sandhills to the cities and mountains.
The Sandhills region of North Carolina continues to up its golf game, from the iconic Pinehurst Resort to Mid Pines and Talamore to new lodging at Tobacco Road.
The golf course at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club in Southern Pines, N.C. has hosted three U.S. Women's Opens. The quality of the winners -- Annika Sorenstam (1996), Karrie Webb (2001) and Cristie Kerr (2007) -- certainly matches the merits of this classic Donald Ross design, which dates back to 1928. The Sandhills terrain gently rises and falls. Big hitters can challenge doglegs but only at their peril.
Longleaf Golf & Country Club in Southern Pines, N.C., sometimes gets lost in the shuffle sandwiched between the Mid Pines/Pine Needles complex and Pinehurst Resort & Country Club. The holes along Midland Road may look a bit pedestrian, but hidden inside the white fences at Longleaf is a dynamite back nine.
Pinehurst No. 2 part deux? Mid Pines Golf Club, much like the celebrated U.S. Open host down the road, has returned to its Donald Ross roots after a recent restoration. Mid Pines, an original Ross routing dating to 1921, reopened in August 2013 to rave reviews. Architect Kyle Franz used aerial photos from the Tufts Archives as a blueprint to guide his team. The result is a classic course that lets you experience the way the game was played years ago.
Designed by George Fazio and his nephew Tom, Pinehurst No. 6 winds through one of Pinehurst's residential communities. It received a renovation from Tom Fazio in 2004 and now plays 6,990 yards from the championship tees and a par 71. The back nine is the most spectacular of the two sides, featuring two downhill par 3s and several holes, such as the 10th and 14th, wrapping around large ponds.
A greens renovation to Champion Bermuda has Mid South Club at Talamore Resort, designed by Arnold Palmer, better than ever. Tour photos of this Carolina Sandhills course near Pinehurst.
The restoration of Pinehurst No. 2 in 2011 has only enhanced the allure of this Donald Ross original. Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw replaced 26 acres of rough with sandy, hardpan waste areas filled with pine needles and hand-planted wiregrass. They used aerial photos from the nearby Tufts Archives as their guide, creating a visually stimulating, more strategic course, ready to host the U.S. Open and U.S. Women's Open.
The 2014 U.S. Women's Open at Pinehurst No. 2 marks the 14th time the tournament has teed up on a public/resort course. Take a look at the other host courses you can play.
The main event at the eight-course Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst No. 2, was the most beloved by Donald Ross, who lived off the third fairway and was constantly tweaking the course until his death in 1948, and it is no coincidence that two of the toughest greens here are the ones closest to his house: No. 3 and No. 5.
Topographically, No. 7 is the most severe of the golf courses at Pinehurst Resort and demands many uphill approach shots to elevated greens, while there are also numerous elevated tee shots as well. Originally built in 1986, the course reopened in 2003 after a 10-month closure to renovate the golf course, which included rebuilding green complexes and adding bunkers and length.
Pinehurst Resort & C.C. is so in tune with its history, it's almost as if this iconic North Carolina golf resort lives in a time warp. Every move toward the future is made with a nod to the past, as the modern touches have seamlessly been introduced without disturbing the fabric of the resort. Pinehurst is a 2,000-acre tribute to Americana, and it will always be the holiest of grounds for those who worship the game of golf.
Golfers flock to Pinehurst Resort & Country Club for the eight golf courses, not eight-course meals. But like everything else at this historic resort in the North Carolina Sandhills, the dining is part of an experience of excellence. From the Carolina Dining Room and the Ryder Cup Lounge at the Carolina Hotel, to The Tavern and the 1895 Grille at the The Holly Inn, the menus are both diverse and divine.
One of the greatest joys of staying at the Pinehurst Resort & Country Club is its intimacy with the charming village. Pinehurst incorporated into a municipality in 1980 and became a National Historic Landmark in 1996. The golfer-friendly vibe is apparent wherever you turn. "It feels like a little village you don't see anymore," one recent golf pilgrim remarked. "It reminds you of a town from the 1930s.
The most natural in appearance of all the Pinehurst Resort golf courses, No. 8 is generally considered the second most popular venue at Pinehurst behind the famed No. 2 course -- thanks to holes such as the par-3 eighth and the 14th and 15th, the latter two of which wrap around wetlands. It's also the longest of the resort's courses.
The No. 4 Course at Pinehurst Resort represents a mix of old and new, originally built in 1919 by Donald Ross and then redesigned by architect Tom Fazio in conjunction with the 1999 U.S. Open. It plays near the venerable No. 2 Course at most points and the routing is still tight and very walkable with small distances from green to tee.
One of America's oldest golf destinations has a brand new golf layout, the Dormie Club, located in West End, North Carolina, four miles from the Village of Pinehurst. The Dormie Club is set on 309 acres and will be the centerpiece of a 1,000-acre residential community that is kept well off the golf course.
The Pet Shop Boys taught us to appreciate "West End Girls." Beacon Ridge Golf & Country Club sells the virtues of "West End Golf." Beacon Ridge feels miles away from the expensive resort golf of Pinehurst and Southern Pines, although geographically it's just down the road. The golf course delivers a value-oriented and unpretentious round in peaceful Carolina surroundings.
The pull of Pinehurst is often too strong for out-of-state golfers to stop at an out-of-the-way destination such as Anderson Creek Golf Club. Those who veer only slightly off course are rewarded with a strong Davis Love III design stocked with the signature elements that make the Sandhills so great for golf: the rolling terrain, sandy soil and priceless natural setting.