Effective immediately, the Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) will change their DBA name to Visit Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen. The CVB board of directors approved the name change at their December board meeting.
When Jim Hyler, former president of the United States Golf Association, takes the dais on February 14 to introduce Robert Dedman Sr. and his son, Robert Dedman Jr. as new members of the Carolinas Golf Hall of Fame, he’ll draw on the metaphor he heard often from Dedman Sr. through the 1990s.
One day in July 1984, the Pinehurst Resort shuttle van picked up Robert Dedman Sr. and associate Jim Hinckley at the Moore Regional Airport and drove them down Route 22 to the traffic circle, around to Hwy. 2, past the old PGA World Golf Hall of Fame, past Dornoch Cottage and alongside the second hole of course No. 2.
The Maples Family is renowned in Sandhills and Carolinas golf circles for its imprint on the industry — from Frank Maples being Donald Ross’s right-hand man in the early 1900s to Ellis Maples designing five area courses in the mid-1900s…
For many years when Dan Maples ran his golf design business out of an office in the Village of Pinehurst, the suite of rooms provided a fascinating display of golf history and architecture — and a testament to the largesse of the Maples family.
The board of directors of the Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) has approved 10 grant awards from a $1 million fund for Moore County projects as part of the organization’s One-Time Project Fund (OTPF).
The three dozen golf courses in and around the Sandhills are certainly atop the entertainment option list for visitors this December and Christmas into New Year’s season.
The final day of the 1999 U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 dawned unseasonably cool for the third week in June. The temperature reached only 64 degrees.
Golfers entering the recently redesigned clubhouse at Legacy Golf Links just south of Aberdeen will walk past a life-size wooden statue of a bear.
Thanksgiving No. 68 approaches. As the revolutions around the sun notch upward and upward, it’s natural to pause, reflect and be grateful for what you’ve experienced
