Talamore Golf Resort: #18
View from the 18th tee at Talamore Golf Resort
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4.6
721 Reviews (721)
5 Stars
463
4 Stars
188
3 Stars
46
2 Stars
12
1 Stars
12
Conditions
4.6
Value
4.3
Layout
4.7
Friendliness
4.6
Pace
4.3
Amenities
4.3
92.1%
Recommend this course
671 out of 721 reviews
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4.6
18 Reviews (18)
5 Stars
12
4 Stars
5
3 Stars
1
2 Stars
0
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.7
Value
4.4
Layout
4.7
Pace
4.4
Amenities
4.4
StaffFriendliness
4.7
100.0%
Recommend this course
18 out of 18 reviews
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4.6
43 Reviews (43)
5 Stars
29
4 Stars
11
3 Stars
2
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1 Stars
1
Conditions
4.7
Value
4.2
Layout
4.7
Pace
4.2
Amenities
4.3
StaffFriendliness
4.5
90.7%
Recommend this course
39 out of 43 reviews
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Course Highlights
Talamore's course layout and conditions consistently impress, with quick, true-rolling greens and well-maintained fairways from tee to green. Friendly staff, a well-stocked pro shop, and a fun llama pen make this a Pinehurst-area must-play.

About

Holes 18
Type Public/Resort
Par 71
Length 6840 yards
Slope 132
Rating 72.4

Resort Course at Talamore Golf Resort is a Rees Jones masterpiece that was nominated as "Best New Public Course of the Year" when opened and has become a regular stop for annual returnees to Pinehurst.

The centuries-old tradition of using llamas to help humans carry packs has been revived with a new twist at Talamore. These gentle, hardy animals can carry two bags of clubs with ease and sure-footedness. Their soft padded feet are kind to the delicate surfaces of a golf course. Known for their friendly and quiet manners, llamas make the perfect caddies. Now you can treat yourself and your friends to a truly distinctive golf experience.

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Course Details

Year Built 1991
Fairways Champion Bermuda Grass
Greens Champion Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Rees Jones (1991) Greg Muirhead (1991) Shapemasters (2016)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees
GPS No
Pull-carts Yes
Caddies No
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker No
Golf Simulator No
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes
Practice Hole No

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Fivesomes Allowed No
Single Allowed No
Dress code Proper golf attire.

Food & Beverage

Bar

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Banquet Facilities

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Reviews

4.6
721 Reviews (721)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 21
19th Hole Scenic Views 8
Watching the Game 8
Course Challenges Include:
Bunkers 38
Elevation Changes 38
Forced Carries 25
This course/club is great for:
Locals 24
A Weekend Splurge 20
Advanced Golfers 20
This Course's Location is:
Convenient to the City 23
Worth the Drive 23
At a Resort 16

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Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Golf staff was very friendly. Not so much with the bar staff.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Amenities Fair
Response from on 09/26/2017:
Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate your 4-star review.
Played On
Reviews 7
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Big biff

Love this course, green the fasted I have ever been on, they are really hard and run with the lightest of touch making them so hard to get a great read the course is in great condition and it was great when the starter, the course manager remembered both my self and my hubby

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Response from on 09/12/2017:
We're glad you and your husband enjoyed a great round at Talamore! Thank you for sharing your five-star experience, 9Lanark!
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Poor
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Response from on 09/12/2017:
Hi Gary, thank you for playing The New Course at Talamore. We strive to provide a five-star golf experience for every round played at our course. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to boost your rating during your next visit.
Played On
Reviews 36
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Great new greens!

This Champion bermuda grass that is being used on greens is perfect! The greens here are large, undulating, and quick - quite a challenge if you are in the wrong spot on the green. Once they soften up some, they will hold approach shots better, but it is tough to complain about greens this nice. Enjoyed looking at the new pot bunkers, but I managed to stay out of them. Pace of play was on the slow side - no marshall or cart lady on a Sunday?? Course is in great shape. Pricey, but worth it.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Response from on 09/06/2017:
Thank you for your review and feedback, Molly. We're glad you enjoyed your round and took on The New Course at Talamore!
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Awesome!

The greens were the best I've putted. The rest of the course was in excellent shape. My first time playing since the greens and bunkers were updated.

Response from on 09/06/2017:
Thank you for your five-star rating and review! We appreciate you sharing your experience at Talamore!
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Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great course

Well laid out, very picturest. The fairways and greens were in great shape. Very enjoyable.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Response from on 08/28/2017:
Thank you for sharing your five-star experience from The New Course at Talamore! We're glad you enjoyed your round, and hope you'll be back to play us again the next time you are in the area!
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Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

How does it not get more play

This course for the price 30$ is the best deal I have got I drive almost a hour simply off the picture as we are pullin in my buddy in the back seat says"wow good call" green fast and roll good tee box on all but a few flat and well kept. Starter was friendly and told me what I needed to know I don't understand wow this course isn't getting a lot of play it there was about 8 cars in the parking lkt

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Response from on 08/25/2017:
Thank you for coming out to play The New Course at Talamore, Lamoreaux! We're glad you enjoyed a great round of golf! The summers are hot, but it looks like you got an even hotter deal! We hope you will come back and play us again!
Played On
Reviews 52
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Tee boxes need some work

The greens and fairways were awesome, the tee boxes need some work. Pace of play was extremely slow due to us being behind a group of 32 individuals playing in some kind of tournament.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Response from on 08/21/2017:
Thank you for coming out to play Talamore and reviewing your experience, Jim! We appreciate your feedback.
Played On
Reviews 9
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Nothing to complain about

Course is challenging but fair, greens are new and hard but will hold a well struck shot from a good lie, even though they had a fresh coating of sand on them they rolled true and fast. The course has a wonderful mix of diffent types of holes and shots to keep you interested. If you leave here complaining then you're impossible to please..

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Response from on 08/21/2017:
Thank you for sharing your experience, Mmckinney1! We're glad you fully enjoyed your round at Talamore!
Played On
Reviews 5
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Great shape and fast greens

This was my first time playing Talamore with the new greens, even though they are extremely fast they were enjoyable to putt on. In a year or two once the greens mature and hold iron shots this will be a top public course in the area. Fairways and rough are in great shape. Best course I've played for $30 in my 25 years of playing golf. Well worth the drive from the Charlotte area.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Response from on 08/17/2017:
Thank you for your review and feedback, catagolf! We're glad you enjoyed the changes we made to The New Course and appreciate you making the trip out to visit us!
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Course is in great shape

Fun round at Talamore. Course was in great shape. Starter was very friendly and gave me some good advice since I was first there. Bunkers were in great shape...try and stay out of the pot bunkers

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Response from on 08/17/2017:
Thank you for your five-stars, jman4l! We're glad you had an enjoyable round at The New Course at Talamore! Great advice, too!
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Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Talamore enjoyment

The golf course is a great layout different tees giving all players of opportunities to play the course was in great condition and deafly should be on your golf lesson

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Response from on 08/15/2017:
Thank you for your five-star review, Todd! We're glad you enjoyed your round at Talamore!
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Played On
Reviews 3
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great Value

Good course. Excellent staff. Enjoyed our round very much

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Response from on 08/15/2017:
We're glad you enjoyed your round! Thank you for your review!
Played On
Reviews 6
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Response from on 08/15/2017:
Thank you for rating your experience!
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Ancient golfer

Nice course and staff. Course in good condition except greens are hard surface and don't hold iron shots very well. Too slow pace took 5 hours to play. By time we got to10th tee had 6 carts waiting.from there we waited most shots and nobody let us play thru. Needed marshal to make pace speed up.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Response from on 08/09/2017:
Thank you for your review and feedback on your round at The New Course at Talamore.
Played On
Reviews 418
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 25 Contributor
Previously Played

Fun Layout

First time playing Talamore since the redesign. Very fun, fair layout. Generous fairways, greens were not too severe......speed and undulation wise. The sand is very fluffy and heavy......and many of the traps at greenside have very steep faces.....almost look like revetted walls. Overall, well worth the drive from Raleigh.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Response from on 08/01/2017:
Thank you for reviewing our newly redesigned course at Talamore, Morgan. We're glad you enjoyed the layout, and appreciate you sharing your experience! We hope you will make the drive out again soon!
Played On
Reviews 29
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Good course

Greens weren't that great

Not much grass in the fairway

Little river was better

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Response from on 08/01/2017:
Thank you for playing The New Course at Talamore. We have seen great results to our new Bermuda Greens since we did our seasonal maintenance, and hope that you will come give them another shot!
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Terrible Pairing

We scheduled a time to play around 11am, the course staff moved us back to 1120AM and paired us with 2 kids that were playing a practice round for some upcoming tournament. We were on the course for over 5 hours and the last thing we wanted to do was play gold with two middle school aged kids while their parents rode along and watched and coached them.

Great course conditions but truly an awful experience.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Response from on 08/01/2017:
Thank you for your feedback on your experience, djkbogey. We are glad you enjoyed the new redesigned course, and are sorry to hear that you did not have a great experience.
Played On
Reviews 52
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Virginia Advisor
First Time Playing

Solid course

First time playing Talamore and it was very enjoyable. Booked through GolfNow and had no issues. Played with 3 guys down from Minnesota on the last day of their golf vacation. The staff was very friendly from the bag drop through check in and to the starter. The course is overall player friendly from the local rules to the new layout. Yes the greens are new within the last year and still a bit firm but they were in awesome shape. They rolled great and they held approach shots that came in high. The rest of the course was in awesome shape considering it is late July in the Sandhills and hotter than h*ll here this time of year. 5 sets of tee boxes to suit your game. Some forced carries and the new bunkering was challenging and fair. I did like the Links style grass faced bunkers around the greens. I only see this course getting better with time for the greens to soften up. Pace of play was 4 hours and 10 minutes on a Sunday that was fully booked. Plenty of water on the course to help keep you hydrated. Definitely will play here again.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Response from on 07/26/2017:
Thank you, Bombtech! We're glad you enjoyed your first experience at Talamore, and are happy to hear you enjoyed the improvements we've made to the course in the last year! We hope that you will come back and visit us again!
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Enjoyable Experience

Nice course. Fairly wide open and friendly. We were a twosome and pace of play was good. Didn't wait until 15th hole. Port-o-johns on the course but you do go by the clubhouse when making the turn.

I would play again if I was in the area.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Response from on 07/05/2017:
Thank you for your review and feedback! We're glad you enjoyed your experience, and look forward to seeing you again next time you are in the area!
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