Creek at Carolina Trace Country Club

One thing that wasn't mentioned on Golf Now when I made the purchase was the Dress Code, I wear shorts with an elastic waist band,due to weight issues from taking steroids. The dress code wasn't mentioned on Golf Now when I made the purchase,but I did talk to the Club Pro and he did let me go ahead and play. I'm recommending that Golf Now put this info on for the courses that require it.

With Regards

Gary Crafford

We had the course to ourselves which was great. We played the creek course and the more scenic one is the lake course. The creek course is not very

challenging from the ladies tee. I will play the lake course next. It looks to be more interesting and was certainly more crowded!

Good variety of holes on this course. Course was in great shape when I played - greens were still in good shape. Looking forward to going back now that I am familiar with the holes - especially #18. Great sandwich selection after your round in the clubhouse!

Enjoy playing this course but you should bring your own drinks and snacks. Course doesn't return to club house to start the 10th and the halfway house is always broke/out of order. No refreshment cart either. Just be prepared on a hot day.

If you cannot keep your tee shot straight... you are in for a long day. Narrow fairways are lined with unforgiving woods. The creek side course has a very wonky layout. Not a fan of that...not to mention to don't end up back at the clubhouse at the turn.

That said, the greens are soft and allow you to attack the pin. Difficult slopes make reading the breaks tricky as well. A few times our group disagreed on the break...still not sure how the birdie put leaked to the right.

Ended up getting the creek course rather than the lake course. There is a huge difference and I won't play creek again. The greens are all about the same size regardless of par and super small. The bunkers are full of rocks to the point I didn't even play from them and I didn't like the layout. No one was on the course either - everyone was playing the lake. The lake course rates harder and longer and has pure white sand in the bunkers. Greens were in decent shape for this time of year but not as nice as the lake. Don't waste your time at the creek course.

Had an 8:21 tee time, and arrived early enough where the only person other than some maintenance crew I saw at the course, the Pro Shop attendant, suggested that if I was at the tee by 8:15a I could go off. She described how to get to the tee, and after hitting a few balls (+$4 for a small bucket) departed for the tee. The first tees for both courses are nearby one another but not differentiated, so I mistakenly hit a ball off the #1 of Lake. Then the groups started to arrive at the tee and helped me sort things out. Finally did hit one off Creek #1 and was off. Pace of play was fine, until I ran into a 4some on #8. Couldn't figure out where they came from, but they let me through on the next hole. Course had a lot of standing water, I noticed, surprising given the low rain levels we have experienced. Ran into another twosome that was oblivious to my arrival waiting for them to finish. Clearly local folks, having their own golf carts, just start playing on empty holes, practicing away while paying players wait for them to finish.

My biggest gripe was the close proximity of cart paths to the greens. I knocked three shots OB on three holes off cart paths that were less than 10 yards away from the green. That's poor design and annoying. That, combined with the seemingly endless flow of cart driving members leaving their homes and traversing the golf course paths to get to the club house combined to make this a less than enjoyable round.

My husband and I waited a long time to play this course. We teed off at 2:30. There was nobody in front of us so we played right through with no delays. We just finished the 14th hole. When we got to the 15th hole there was a group of 5 in the middle of the fairway. We sat and waited and didn't know what they were doing. They were just standing there. Finally when we got tired of waiting, we drove past them and then saw two more groups of 4 in front of them. We don't know where they came from. None of them said a word to us. Because of this we didn't finish our round. Very disappointing. All in all the course was beautiful and we will play it again.

There are too many fine courses in the sandhills area to waste your time here. Fairways full of weeds and many greens were diseased. Not enough interesting holes. Played as a twosome stuck behind a foursome of septuagenarians for 5 hours with no course marshall to assist. No water stations anywhere on the course and course doesn't bring you back to the clubhouse until 18, we were dying of thirst. Would never consider playing here again.

The course is beautiful and well maintained even during the winter months. Greens were marvelous. No wait on any of the holes and friendly staff in the club house. Local players were also helpful in offering tips for play throughout the course.

As the title says the course is priced right at $30 through golfnow.com. The course and clubhouse need maintenance and ugrading. Gas carts are beat up and have torn bumpers. The neighborhood surrounds a large lake with small docks for mostly canoes and pontoon boats. 15 to 25 years ago it probably was a first class facility but time has worn the neighborhood course. When checking in the staff was not friendly in fact gave us no instructions about range balls, which course to play, the direction to go the. Trek coirse, and on top it of all our gas card ran out of gas between holes 10 and 11! Somebody's not paying attention! But as I said for 30 bucks it was fine

My son and I enjoyed the round. The course is moderate and good condition.

Very nice golf course they have 36 holes we played the Creek Course i prefer the Lake course but it was not available that day

In short, for the GolfNow cost this was an amazing experience! My friend and I are already planning to return. The course scenery was beautiful, the greens were perfect and the fairways were in very good condition. If I dare say there was a downside it was getting started. There are two courses side by side (creek and lake) and the courses number one tee boxes are side by side as well. The PROBLEM is the course names are marked in small print. And if you aren't careful you can end up on the wrong number one tee box. Other than that, the outing was superb!

Second time playing course. Creek course both times. Facility is good. Brand new carts and they provided a towel as well which came in handy as ended up being very hot. Course was still wet from recent rain so played long and slow although greens dried out mid round and sped up a good bit. First green is little patchy but after that they were solid.

My best advice is to bring bug spray. Lots of it. Got a $27 deal on Golfnow and was able to tee off a little early bc everyone wants to play the Lakes course. We saw a total of 1 twosome the entire round on creek course so we set our own pace the whole time. It's a drive from Durham but for the cost, conditions and pace of play it was worth it.

1960s course that needs updating and considerably more maintenance.

Beautiful and well manicured course. Played at 11:30 on a hot August day. Course was practically empty. Saw several on the Lake Course which I will return to play. Loved the Creek course in every way. Fairways were immaculate as was bermuda around edges. Little weeds or crabgrass. Greens were awesome. Bunkers clean and raked. For a $27 rate, can't go wrong. Carts were new as well. Staff friendly. Definitely play it again when I'm back in Pinehurst area.

Very nice course in very good condition....very challenging on some of the holes...beautiful scenery in the pines