Deercroft Golf Club

Very nice people run this course and they have been working on the course. Removed a lot of trees. Fairways fair condition but goes from fairway to waste area without any real rough. Greens the day we played were shaggy and a bit bouncy. Appeared to have been aerated about 2 weeks earlier and filling back in. I know these guys are working hard and I hopee all goes well for them.
The pace of play seemed slow but that seems to be a problem anywhere there are no rangers coming thru once in a while to be sure guys are keeping up.

This is an older course that had almost died, but is on the comeback. Very well maintained, super friendly staff. You can see the work that is being done. A work of love in progress. I only wish that it was closer to my home so i could play it more often.

This course had been going downhill for several years. It is a very nice layout and Ted and his crew are working very hard, with fine resuilts, to make it a top notch play

Living in the area I play a lot of high end courses. A friend suggested we play Deercroft so we gave it a chance. The area around the course is being renovated but doesn't interfere with your game. The greens were the best I have ever played in the entire area. If you give it a try you won't be disappointed. Additional plus. It's owned and run buy the nicest people. You will have a great time here.

Deercroft is far and away the 'best value' for golf in the Pinehurst area and I am confident it will continue to improve and eventually will become worthy of charging even higher fees. When I travel (from New Jersey) to play resort golf, the one thing that can ruin a day is 'poor quality greens' - well rest assured that will not happen here at Deercroft, the greens are beautiful. I played 5 rounds of golf in 4 days (early May 2013) mostly on Midland Road and Deercroft took a back seat to nobody with regard to the condition and speed of the greens, and combined with smaller than average greens, it makes for a great challenge and will get you ready for the rest of your trip. It is the perfect 'opening' round for a golf trip in Pinehurst especially when 8 guys fly in from various destinations and are looking for something 'not too tough' to start the trip and have the real tough ones planned for later in the week. Please do not be fooled by the yardage on the scorecard, the course plays a lot longer than listed because there are very few (if any) straight holes, the course has quite a bit of character. I have been planning trips for 8-12 guys for 20 years and we have been going to Pinehurst at least once every year for the past 16 years. This is the first time I played here but I will definitely use Deercroft as my opening round (straight from the airport) on every trip going forward. We played on a rainy day and since it was not crowded, we had the pleasure of meeting and chatting with the owner who took over less than 2 years ago. He is a very personable gentlemen who seems dedicated to turning this course around and return it to the form it had years ago. He is off to a great start already with fabulous greens and bunkers that were in fine shape despite the prior 2 days of rain. Sorry for the long review, but since Deercroft is the best $25 round of golf I have ever played anywhere, I felt compelled to write my first review at golfnow.com.

Great golf course to play. Weather conditions made the golf course a bit challenging to play. Will play this course again.

This is a great value with a nice friendly challenge but fair.
Greens held the ball on the second or third shot and putted true.
Staff couldn't have been nicer . Great day!

Greens are slow, but true. Bunkers are pristine. Fairways OK. The current staff is trying to rebuild this once beautiful course and bring it back to life.

we found the course typical of nc courses this time of year. we found. the greens to be superb but needed to be cut a little shorter the tees needed some work and there were some areas that needed attention,but overall i enjoyed my experiance. thank you

Wooded and hilly, but not overly difficult. Had a great time. Will be back.

Golf course greens were very good. Course was wet from rain. Back 9 was relatively dry.

This course has as very nice layout and the greens roll very good. Not super long but I enjoyed it very much. This course had gone down hill the last few years but sounds like the owner committed to making it a very good course again. About 30 min drive from Pinehurst and even though I expected more I am glad I made the trip down. Just go there with an open mind and give it a try. You can't beat the price.

Always enjoyed playing Deercroft since the holes are isolated from the others so you don't see anyone playing on other holes. And any time I've played it (always off season) it has not been busy. But the course conditions started going way down hill so it has been several years since last playing there. There is still room for improvement, but over-all the course is in much better shape than the last time I played it, especially the greens. I am not the straightest off the tee, so I find keeping it in play on these tree lined fairways a challenge. For the $15 bucks cart and green fee hot deal, it is definitely worth the trip from Southern Pines/Pinehurst.

The course was in great shape for the winter. The highlight of course conditions were the greens. They were maintained well enough to grab the ball when you hit them but were greased lightning when putting. The greens were a blast to play on!

The greens on this golf course are nothing short of spectacular. They rolled fast and true and were a pleasure to play.
If new management can carry the quality work they've exhibited with the green complex to the rest of the golf course it will be a regular destination for me and my group.
To find as good or better puting surfaces, in our immediate area (Pinehurst vicinity) you would have to spend alot more money, alot more.
Can't wait for the warmer weather to see how the rest of the physical plant fills in.

I played this course back in early August of 2012 and found it in dire need of improvement. On the urging of the on staff PGA professional, I returned to try out the vast improvements they communicated had been made.

And I was pleasantly surprised! The greens could not have been better and it showed that they had put a lot of effort into bringing them "back from the dead". They are smooth, quick and true. A pleasure to putt on.

The entire green "complex" (areas surrounding the green) on almost every hole still needs some work as there are a considerable number of "hard-pan surfaces", rocks and roots that interfere with chip and pitch shots.

They have taken down enough trees so as to open up the course a bit, but not too many so as to detract from giving the course a good "viewing feel". There were many areas planted with sawgrass that greatly improved the aesthetics of the course.

Some areas still showed drainage issues and even with a week's worth of dry weather, were a bit wet and muddy. This was true on some of the aprons of the greens as well.

The tee boxes have been aerated and will most certainly be in tip-top shape when spring arrives and the Bermuda starts growing. The fairways were in as good a shape as they could be in for this time of year without over-seeding.

All in all, I give the course 3 stars out of 5, but am sure with the efforts that are obviously being put into the course, that will most certainly go up another star in the next 12 months.

My advice, is give this great layout another chance if you have written it off in the past, or try it out for a good time on a very playable course.

Last year I played the course with my friend and found that the greens and the overall course was in rough shape. I told myself I would not play here again. A friend of mine played here in september and said the course was under new ,mangement and the has improved. I played here on Nov 2 and the greens were great and the improvements on and off the course were excellent. I WOULD PLAY HERE AGAIN !!!

Fairways are in great shape. Greens were pretty good too - lots of un-repaired divots on the greens, but that's not the courses fault. Newer owners, nice people. Will be back again.

the course has a great layout and very good greens,fairways a little sparse

If you saw my review for Whispering Woods, this could be the same. Great Staff, needs work on the fairways, roughs and carts paths. They are doing a lot of work out there and the greens are in very nice shape. They have some long holes for a short hitter like me. They do not try and take you money at the bar, very nice prices. Every time I have been there we have played the round at a 3 hr pace for two players. I wish more people would go out and support this course. We need local courses like this for a person that likes to have a fun day with the guys. ( and gals )