Lake at Carolina Trace Country Club

Thoroughly enjoyed this layout, especially the holes along the lake. Reasonable, but tight fairways. Lots of out of bounds to contend with so focus on accuracy over length. Excellent greens rolled very quick and true -- Champion Bermuda. Will be back.

This is one of the best places if you stay in the Pinehurst area and do not mind the drive of 30 minutes. Excellent layout and some of the best par 3 I have seen.

Course was in really nice condition. Played 18 holes in just over 3 hours. Will go back.

Two of us played here for the first time. Course conditions were so-so, greens were a bit bumby. The driving range is super tiny: heck, I've seen backyards wider. Practice bunker is poor. What struck me were the lack of on-course amenities like signage to get you to next hole, drinking water and restrooms. Hard to take a leak when you're surrounded by houses. Don't think I'll be back to the Creek course but I would like to try the Lake course.

I enjoy this course all though I don't play it all that often. The layouts are good and the conditions have always been good. It had rained very hard the day before we played so we had to keep the carts on the cart path but other than that, things were very nice. This isn't a 5-star track like a handful of the others in the area, but it's always enjoyable.

One of the best golf course I have ever played. Challenging layout and great conditions. A MUST PLAY.

This course was in fantastic shape for the past weeks weather conditions. Fairways green and lush, bunkers were playable and the greens were the best part of the course.

Weather was perfect for a day of golf. It was cart paths only but fairways and greens were in excellent condition. We had a 12:54 tee time and had a walking foursome behind us so we played a leisurely round. Highly recommend.

Looking forward to playing again soon

Second time playing The Lakes course this year. For late fall, the greens were fantastic....faster than they looked. Fairways/rough in good condition. Down side was that many of the sand bunkers hadn't been raked by previous players (yeah, I shouldn't have been in them). Pace of play was really bad....there were too many twosomes playing and several groups were obviously playing from the wrong tees. Trace needs a ranger to help move things along.....we waited at least 20 minutes on each side because of slow play/non-ready golf.

Overall, a great course and will play again.

Great layout and challenging from all tees

This course is fantastic!! Great shape friendly staff, A must play! Very scenic and well worth the drive.

This is a great layout and challenging form any set of tees. The fairways had just been over seeded and the course was extremely wet. We were cart path only. The green are as good as any in the area. The course could use more general maintenance. The fairways and bunkers were covered in debris. This made it more difficult to find your ball, even in the fairway. All that being said, I wouldn't hesitate to play here again.

Got to play the Creek Course , although I had a tee time for the Lakes, after pairing up with a threesome. Was told there was a tournament on the Lakes , although Golfnow didn`t mention it. The Creek Course was fun , but the greens were a bit sandy, from being punched I guess. First time here , and didn`t know you don`t come back the clubhouse at the turn. No water anywhere that I saw, and no beverage cart the whole round. Not sure why. Will probably come back, but will bring my own drinks and snacks next time.

The Course is in good condition. The fairways and tee boxes are plush. The greens roll true but are very small so kind of hard to hit. Fairway bunkers are well placed off the tee. Lots of elevation changes makes club selection difficult. I am going to return to have another go at it.

Course was in great condition considering the recent hurricane that past through, greens were quick making longer putts hard to make if you missed your line. Only issue was never seen beverage cart for the entire round.