Pinehurst Resort

Dr. Leroy Culver built the first nine holes of what would go on to become Pinehurst Resort here before the turn of the 20th Century. John Dunn Tucker added the next nine shortly thereafter.

Then, Donald Ross added his touches, drawing on his Scottish roots to add bunkers across fairways and around the greens. The result is a course that’s a classic not just due to its age, but because of its appeal.

Donald Ross’s masterpiece, No. 2 at Pinehurst has served as the site of more single golf championships than any other course in America. It has also hosted back-to-back U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open Championships in 2014. As the U.S. Open’s anchor site, the future looks bright indeed. The championship returned in 2024 and will be coming back again in 2029, 2035, 2041 and 2047. Come walk in the footsteps of legends and play the holes that will birth a new generation of icons as well.

At just 5,155 yards, No. 3 is the shortest course at Pinehurst, but don’t let that modest distance fool you. The course, originally designed in 1910, was recently renovated to return many of Donald Ross’s original flourishes and characteristics. Miniscule, elevated greens that average just 4,500 sq. ft. each demand precision while challenging bunker placements add to the adventure as you try to best this par-68 course.

Visually stunning from tee to green, Gil Hanse created No. 4 in the timeless tradition of golf in the North Carolina Sandhills. Vast expanses of sand are exposed along the fringes of the course as well as in cross-fairway bunkers. Native wiregrass melds with the area’s rolling topography, making No. 4 one of the most breathtaking golf courses at Pinehurst. Dramatic vistas are everywhere one turns, helping to explain why this impressive course was chosen to host the 2019 U.S. Amateur just one year after it reopened in 2018 following Hanse’s redesign.

In 1961, Ellis Maples, who studied course design at the side of Donald Ross, adopted his mentor’s mentality of finding the course that lies in the landscape as it already exists. The result was a spectacular course we now call No. 5. Typified by the par-3 14th, known as “Cathedral Hole,” this picturesque course is among the most beautiful at Pinehurst. The signature hole's green is fronted by a pond and encircled by a stand of pines resembling a pipe organ, leading to its godly nickname.

PGA professional golfer Tom Fazio and his uncle George, an accomplished course designer in his own right, set out in 1975 to create a course that was located near the heart of Pinehurst, yet distinctly set apart in its style. The result was No. 6, an undulation track that rewards big, bold drives and requires more aggressive approach shots as well. In 2005, Tom returned to carve in new bunkers, soften a few angles and speed up the greens, also adding wiregrass throughout the course to anchor it aesthetically to Pinehurst even as it continues to carve out a reputation of its own.

Back in 1992, before he went on to dominate the world of golf, Tiger Woods claimed his only Pinehurst title to date along this dramatic course designed by Rees Jones. Unfolding over uneven terrain that dips in spots into wetlands, every hole on No. 7 will test a golfer’s skills…whether they’re a soon-to-be legend or just out for a weekend of fun.

To commemorate the North Carolina golf resort’s centennial, Tom Fazio again leant his talents to Pinehurst in 1996 by designing No. 8. Coalescing all of the elements that make golf at Pinehurst unmistakable into one 18-hole layout, Fazio fashioned a course that’s at once stunning and simple, and equal parts challenge and celebration.

Jack Nicklaus has long stated that Pinehurst’s No. 2 is his favorite course from a design standpoint, so it’s no surprise that his own masterpiece here draws influence from it. In fact, No. 9 offers meticulous design set amongst stands of longleaf pines that many believe rivals the very course that inspired it, both in terms of play quality and overall composition. The only way to truly know is to visit and play all 7,122 yards of this magnificent course for yourself.

No. 10 is Pinehurst’s first new course in nearly three decades, but in truth it’s been centuries, even millennia, in the making. The landscape underlying Tom Doak’s new design features native wiregrass, sweeping landscape and rolling hills formed by geology. Midway through the course, it also takes advantage of rugged dunes carved out by mining operations around the turn of the 20th Century. The result is a spectacular course with 75 feet of elevation change that winds its way through the Sandhills on a path toward delivering a golf experience like no other.