Pinehurst Resort-Simply the Best!
Is there really any question that Pinehurst Resort is the best golf resort in the country? If you know of another one, with equivalent golf course quality, history, tradition, and pure unadulterated reverence for golf, please let us know.
The golf courses, numbered 1-8 are among the highest ranked courses anywhere. Venerable Pinehurst No. 2, with its inverted saucer-shaped greens and unbelievable history is worthy of every award in golf and it has won most of them. The impressive list of major championships held at Pinehurst No. 2 will be extended with the recent announcement by the USGA that both the Men’s and Women’s U.S. Open Championships would be held there in 2014, in consecutive weeks, no less.
The actual resort dates back to 1895 when Boston soda fountain magnate James Walker Tufts bought about 5,500 acres of timberland in the middle of North Carolina. Tufts hired Frederick Olmstead to design and plan the resort and accompanying village. Olmstead designed New York City’s Central Park as well as the grounds of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.
As soon as Donald Ross began sculpting great golf courses here, great golfers followed–coming here for tournaments and other events or just for pleasure. You’ll see their names in the clubhouse. Palmer, Nicklaus, Snead, Hogan, Pavin, Love, Bobby Jones, Miller, Watson and Faldo are just a few of the greatest of the greats who have come for the challenge, usually on course no. 2–in Ross’s opinion the greatest test of championship golf he designed. Others must think so too: Pick virtually any golf publication, and Pinehurst no.2 is consistently ranked in the top 10 of all golf courses throughout the country.
Unless you’re a member of Pinehurst Country Club, you need to stay at one of the Pinehurst Hotels to play here. The historical Carolina Hotel is the centerpiece of Pinehurst hospitality, and it’s well worth the price of admission, which fluctuates seasonally. The hotel offers several packages, many of which are good values, especially in the evergreen season (winter).
