Legacy Golf Links

Southern Pines, NC · 5.0 mi away

Donald Ross classic in the Sandhills: one of the region's oldest courses

Southern Pines, NC · 6.0 mi away

Mid Pines in Southern Pines, North Carolina, opened in 1921 as a Donald Ross design and sits across the road from Pine Needles under the same ownership. The routing has never been altered, so the course still plays the way Ross laid it out. Kyle Franz completed a restoration in 2013, removing decades of tree growth and irrigated rough, widening the sandy edges and recovering the original green shapes. The result is firm, fast turf, waste-sand bunkering with native wire grass, and approach shots that can be run into the greens. It plays as a par 72 at a modest yardage, is comfortably walkable, and is open to public and resort play through the Pine Needles and Mid Pines operation.

Pinehurst, NC · 6.4 mi away

Pinehurst No. 1 is where golf at Pinehurst began. The course opened in 1898, originally designed and built by Dr. Leroy Culver, and was later enhanced by John Dunn Tucker and by Donald Ross after Ross arrived in the Sandhills. It predates No. 2 and gave the young resort its first real golf identity. At 6,089 yards and par 70, No. 1 is the most approachable of the resort's full-length courses. The fairways are wide, the routing walks gently over the sandy ground, and the green complexes carry Ross's influence without the severity found next door. More than a century of resort golf has passed over this ground, and the course still serves its original purpose: a welcoming first taste of Pinehurst for the thousands of golfers who arrive each year.