The Cradle of American golf.
Donald Ross arrived in the Carolina Sandhills in 1900, and Pinehurst has been central to the American game ever since. No. 2 has hosted four U.S. Opens, most recently in 2024, along with the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open in the week that followed the men’s. As the USGA’s anchor site, it hosts the U.S. Open again in 2029. Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw restored it to Ross’s sandy, scrubby original character in 2011.
The Sandhills keep growing. Tom Doak’s No. 10 opened in 2024 on the old Sandmines site south of the village, Pinehurst’s first new 18-hole course in nearly three decades. Next door, Coore and Crenshaw have built a course entirely their own: No. 11, which opens in spring 2027. This Pursuit plays both, along with No. 2, Gil Hanse’s No. 4 and The Cradle.