Golf's Greatest Left Their Mark on the Sandhills

To Dornoch and Back

“Our relationship with CCNC is centered around Donald Ross and the Pinehurst area,” Macrae says. “The recently developed relationship between the Royal Burgh of Dornoch and Pinehurst will provide even more opportunities for the two ...

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The Scottish Invasion

This area of south-central North Carolina has deep Scottish roots dating to the 1700s, when droves of Scottish emigrants fled the Highlands to the shores of North Carolina and moved up the Cape Fear River ...

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An Artist in the Dirt

Tom Fazio was working at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio, in the mid-1970s on some course renovations leading up to the 1979 U.S. Open when he noticed an ambitious and talented member of the course ...

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Act Two for Tot Hill Farm

If Mike Strantz hadn’t died from tongue cancer in 2005 at the young age of 50, would he ever have made it to Pinehurst proper to design a golf course? We’ll never know, of course, ...

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Pinehurst Resort Announces New Course to be Designed by Tom Doak

Pinehurst Resort has announced that it will be creating a brand-new golf courses for the first time in 28 years. Pinehurst No. 10 is set to open in 2024 and will be designed by acclaimed ...

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Coore & Crenshaw Roots Run Deep

Golf architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw each have a significant tie to the Sandhills and Pinehurst No. 2 from their respective early days in golf. Coore was born in 1946 and grew up in ...

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The Hanse Touch

Gil Hanse launched his golf design firm in 1993 and for nearly two decades carved a niche doing restoration work on classic courses across the United States, among them Merion, Winged Foot, Fishers Island, The ...

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Jones Family Imprint

Jones Family Imprint Across The Sandhills of North Carolina with favorite courses such as Pinehurst No. 7 and CCNC's Cardinal Course. ...

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The Big Three

It made for a great story in the heady days of the late-1980s golf boom: Arnie and Jack battling it out once again, staking their immense abilities and reputations face-to-face as they’d done so many ...

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Maples Roots Run Deep in Sandhills Golf Design

“For me, Pinehurst is such a special place for golf,” says Fazio, who at 77 is still designing new courses and working on renovations of his earlier works. “Put Donald Ross in the equation and ...

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“For me, Pinehurst is such a special place for golf!”- Tom Fazio

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Donald Ross Could Golf His Ball

Anyone who has ever teed it up in the Pinehurst area knows the name Donald Ross. A transplanted Scot, Donald Ross fused his home course knowledge (Royal Dornoch and its elevated, contoured greens) and his ...

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Franz Part 3: On Sandhills Topography

In part 3 of a multi-part Q&A series with golf writer Brad King, Kyle Franz discusses the unique topography around the Sandhills and what it was like working at Southern Pines Golf Club during one ...

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Franz Part 2: The Legacy Continues

In part 2 of a multi-part Q&A series with golf writer Brad King, Kyle Franz discusses the various eras of Ross’s design work around the Sandhills and how Ross’s golf course design work compares to ...

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Franz Creating Legacy on the Links

With his ongoing improvement project at Southern Pines Golf Club, architect Kyle Franz is coming full circle renovating a variety of Donald Ross-designed golf courses in North Carolina’s Sandhills region. ...

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Donald Ross First of Many Architects to Design U.S. Open-Quality Courses in Sandhills

As the “Home of American Golf,” the Pinehurst, Southern Pines and Aberdeen area has long held close ties with the U.S. Open. This is the final of a three-part series detailing some of our area’s ...

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The Carolina Hotel at Pinehurst Resort

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The Dynamic Decade

Meet Our Architects

Golf’s Greatest Left Their Mark on the Sandhills

To Dornoch and Back

The Scottish Invasion

An Artist in the Dirt

Act Two for Tot Hill Farm

Pinehurst Resort Announces New Course to be Designed by Tom Doak

Coore & Crenshaw Roots Run Deep

The Hanse Touch

Jones Family Imprint

The Big Three

Maples Roots Run Deep in Sandhills Golf Design

“For me, Pinehurst is such a special place for golf!”- Tom Fazio

Donald Ross Could Golf His Ball

Franz Part 3: On Sandhills Topography

Franz Part 2: The Legacy Continues

Franz Creating Legacy on the Links

Donald Ross First of Many Architects to Design U.S. Open-Quality Courses in Sandhills

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