Carolina Lakes Golf Club

Spring Lake, NC · 4.6 mi away

Anderson Creek Golf Club is a public course in Spring Lake, near Fort Liberty. The par-72 layout plays to about 7,000 yards over rolling, wooded terrain, a full-length test that serves the Fayetteville area and the military community.

Sanford, NC · 9.1 mi away

The Lake Course at Carolina Trace Country Club is an 18-hole layout in Sanford, North Carolina, part of a private golf community built around the 315-acre Lake Trace. Designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., it opened for play in 1971, with a companion course completed later to form the club's 36 holes. Several holes run along the lake, including a par-3 13th with the water as a backdrop and two risk-reward par-5s bordered by water on the back nine. In 2015 architect David Whelchel led a renovation that rebuilt bunkers, adjusted some fairway contours and lengthened the course while preserving Jones's original routing. The club operates on a semi-private membership model with tee time access for members and guests.

Sanford, NC · 9.1 mi away

The Creek Course is one of two 18-hole layouts at Carolina Trace Country Club in Sanford, North Carolina, within a gated residential community around Lake Trace in the Sandhills region. Designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and opened in 1979, the course features dramatic elevation changes and rolling terrain uncommon for the area, along with a meandering creek that affects play on several holes, including the closing stretch. Fairways are narrow and lined with tall pines, and greens are smaller than on the club's companion Lake Course. The 18th green sits on a point of land surrounded by water on three sides. The club is part of a private residential development, though tee times have at times been available to outside players through arrangement.

Fort Bragg, NC · 11 mi away

Ryder Golf Course is located on the grounds of Fort Bragg (also known during a period as Fort Liberty), a U.S. Army installation in North Carolina. It was built in 1930 as the Fort Bragg Officer's Golf Course within what is now the base's Old Post Historic District, and it is one of two golf courses operated on post alongside Stryker Golf Course. Originally laid out with 27 holes, the course lost nine holes in the 1960s to make way for military housing. A major renovation completed around 2000 rebuilt the irrigation system and bunkers, and further playing-surface work was done in the early 2020s. Ryder is a rolling, pine-lined course with several water holes and small, undulating greens, open to military personnel, authorized patrons and the visiting public through Fort Bragg's MWR golf program.

Sanford, NC · 12 mi away

Tobacco Road Golf Club is a public, 18-hole course in Sanford, North Carolina. Mike Strantz designed it on a former sand-quarry site, and the course opened in 1998. The routing uses the quarry's sand formations rather than disguising them. Blind shots, large sandy waste areas and strongly contoured greens are central to the design. Published back-tee yardages vary between sources, but both Golf Digest and GOLF.com list the course below 6,600 yards.

Last verified 2026-10-25

Sanford, NC · 12 mi away

The Matchbox is a short course built alongside the famed Tobacco Road Golf Club in Sanford, North Carolina. It opened in August 2026 near the 12th and 13th fairways of the original Mike Strantz-designed course, on ground that once held spoils from the quarry excavation used to build Tobacco Road in the 1990s. The 12-hole course was designed by Carlton/Marshall Golf Design with Mark White, one of the original shapers who worked under Strantz. Holes range from roughly 40 to 105 yards and wind through trees and around a pond, using synthetic turf blended into the natural ground to avoid clearing trees or installing irrigation. The Matchbox is open to the public alongside Tobacco Road's regular tee-time system, offering a quick round for guests already playing or staying at the property.