TEE TIME (WHAT’S GOING ON IN PINEHURST GOLF)

Welcome to the home of America’s golf, the home to Golf Magazine’s 2008 “Best Golf Resort in America” for the third time, and home to both the Mens and Womens 2014 US Open.  Pinehurst golf has witnessed countless moments in golf history from Hogan’s first professional win to Payne Stewart’s dramatic 18th hole putt to win the 1999 US Open.  Bobby Jones even calls Pinehurst the “St. Andrews of United States Golf”.

In 1996, The Village of Pinehurst and Pinehurst Resort had the distinct pleasure of being given National Landmark status for their historical, significant role in U.S. golf history.  There are currently 43 of the finest North Carolina golf courses within a 15 mile radius of Pinehurst. 

Below is our current Pinehurst 2010 golf calendar.  If you would like to see other area special events, sponsored by Pinehurst Resorts, please click here.

March 12 - 14 - Pinehurst Intercollegiate Golf Tournament (No. 8)
March 22 - 23 - College of Charleston Golf Classic (No. 6)
May 10 - Oakley Sunglasses Pro Am Tournament (No. 6)
June 14 - 17 - 32nd North and South Junior Championship
June 25 - 27 - U.S. Kids Golf Parent Child Tournament
June 28 - July 3 - 110th North and South Men's Amateur Championship
July 19 - 24 - 108th North and South Women's Amateur Championship
July 28 - 31 - U.S. Kids Golf Teen World Championship
August 1 - U.S. Kids Golf Teen World Cup
August 1 - 2 - U.S. Kids Golf World Parent Child
August 4 - 7 - U.S. Kids Golf World Championship
August 8 - U.S. Kids Golf World Cup
August 24 - 26 - 59th North and South Senior Men's Championship
August 24 - 26 - 53rd North and South Senior Women's Championship
November 3 - 7 Acura College Alumni Team Championship
December 28 - 30 - 63rd Donald Ross Junior Championship


PINEHURST NO. 2 TO BE RESTORED TO ROSS' VISION

Ben Crenshaw, recognized as one of golf’s top players and a defender of the game’s tradition and course design partner Bill Coore have begun a restoration project of Pinehurst’s famed No. 2 course. 

The project’s philosophy is to restore (not radically change) the course’s natural aesthetic characteristics and to bring back strategic play originally crafted by Donald Ross, but that have been lost over time.  The changes include returning sandy waste areas, native wiregrass and natural bunker edges; widening the fairways to play as they did in the era from 1935 – 1960; and reducing the amount of manicured rough.

Coore and Crenshaw researched historic photographs at the Tufts Archives, along with documents and drawings of the course’s irrigation plan that mapped the course’s progression from soft fairway lines to the manicured, wall-to-wall grass look synonymous with the modern era.  The new project will return a natural aesthetic to No. 2 that is indicative of its native soil and topography. The desire is to create a more rustic look.  Ross didn’t intend to have manicured Bermuda rough in places like the right side of the second hole. 

Work will be conducted gradually in 2010, and course work is not expected to impact play on No. 2 until the course closes for the winter off-season from November 15 – March2, 2011.  The signature greens of No. 2 will not be touched, nor will significant length be added to the course as a result of the project.

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