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Pinehurst Resort & Country Club |
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Pinehurst. This resort has hosted more championships than any other venue in America. This area is truly the Mecca of golf in the United States. The entire village just oozes with charm and quaintness. Besides golf there are no shortages of other distractions while you’re in town. There are 24 clay tennis courts, lawn bowling, croquet, and swimming in one of the pools or in Lake Pinehurst where you can also sail, fish or kayak. You will stay at The Manor House in the heart of the village. The inn has 45 guest rooms and houses the ever-popular Mulligan’s Bar & Grill. Package based on double occupancy. Includes breakfast, green fees, cart, resort fees and taxes. |
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Pinehurst No. 2 Designed by Donald Ross, this track has become the foremost golf course in the United States. Ross called it “the fairest test of championship golf I ever designed.” Site of the 1999 & 2005 US Open Championship  .
Not since 1946 has the tournament returned so quickly to the same site.
You can find out why! No. 2 first opened as an 18-hole course in 1907
and Ross constantly fine-tuned it into a superlative test of every facet
of golf. You have to hit the ball well. And hit long irons well and
add a sharp short game. The greens play smaller because they fall off
around the edges. If you did not hit them perfectly, they will roll off
into dips and swales, which in Ross’ view require “short shots that no
other form of hazard can call for.” He wasn’t lying!
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Three Rounds & Three Nights Starting at: $927.00 |
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first course, No. 6, at Pinehurst in 1979. He started the project with
his uncle, George, in 1976 and was delighted by the contrast from No.
2. He states, “It was a very dramatic site with lots of elevation
change. You didn’t have the subtleties and soft flow of No. 2. I
welcomed the change. What I saw was the ability to create a dramatic
golf course on a strong piece of land, a different style of golf
course.” Woods, water and thick vegetation that gobble up errant shots
surround the course. There are also steep fall-offs, and mounds and
swales around the green to test your chipping and putting skills. Its
back nine remains one of the toughest at Pinehurst.
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Jones discovered some ancient bunkers in the woods when he was routing
this course. It turns out they were part of a long abandoned employees
course that Donald Ross built many years ago. He cleaned them up and
made them part of the course. The bunkers sit beside the tee to the
fourth hole. They are just one of the dozens of interesting touched
that make this course fascinating and part of the Pinehurst heritage.
“Devil’s Gut” is an expanse of wetlands on the short, par 4 seventh and
seems typical of this track. Jones reveals, “It’s a rugged site. The
golf course fits very naturally, hitting from elevated tees, down into
the valleys and back up. I think it’s one heck of a golf course.” So
will you!
