Golf courses in Pinehurst, NC.

Pinehurst, NC

The most famous course in America

Pinehurst, NC

A modern Hanse masterpiece at Pinehurst

Pinehurst, NC

The Cradle at Pinehurst is a nine-hole short course designed by Gil Hanse and opened in 2017. The compact routing rolls across sandy ground, wiregrass and pines near the main clubhouse, with varied par threes that reward imagination rather than length. Music, quick rounds and the option to loop it again make the atmosphere deliberately social, but the contours and recoveries still feel tied to Pinehurst's broader golf character. Cradle Crossing is the open-air bar overlooking The Cradle, with seating and fire pits above the third green and fourth tee. The nearby Pinecone bar cart and its Transfusions add to a short-course scene built around music, sunsets and another loop.

Pinehurst, NC

Pinehurst Resort No. 8, also known as the Centennial Course, is an 18-hole, par-72 resort course in Pinehurst, North Carolina, designed by Tom Fazio and opened in 1996 to mark Pinehurst's 100th anniversary. The course plays to 7,099 yards, is designated an Audubon Signature Sanctuary, and routes through rolling pine forest and wetlands with a Cape-style par-4 14th hole. A 2022 renovation reworked bunkers, greens and irrigation while leaving Fazio's original architecture unchanged; the course has ranked among GOLF Magazine's Top 100 Courses You Can Play.

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Pinehurst, NC

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.

Pinehurst, NC

Pinehurst No. 7 is an 18-hole, par-72 course at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina. Rees Jones designed the course, which opened in 1986 and was renovated in 2002. The layout plays 7,216 yards from the back tees and is routed over wetland terrain about a mile from the resort's main clubhouse. It has roughly 75 bunkers and 25 acres of wetlands in play, and 13 of the 18 greens sit on elevated sites. No. 7 has its own range, putting green and short-game area. Play is open to resort guests and outside visitors through Pinehurst Resort tee times.

Pinehurst, NC

Pinehurst No. 6 is an 18-hole, par-72 resort course at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina, designed by George and Tom Fazio and opened in 1979. Tom Fazio renovated the course in 2005, adding bunkers and native wiregrass. It measures 7,053 yards from the back tees, with a course rating of 74.7 and a slope of 139. The layout is more open and links-influenced than Pinehurst's tree-lined courses, set on rolling terrain with views across the property. It was the first Pinehurst course not designed by Donald Ross.

Pinehurst, NC

Classic Donald Ross at Pinehurst: walk-on welcome

Pinehurst, NC

Pinehurst No. 9 is a resort course located about three miles from the main Pinehurst clubhouse in the North Carolina Sandhills, set among longleaf pines near Southern Pines. It opened in 1989 as the privately owned National Golf Club, designed by Jack Nicklaus, and was purchased by Pinehurst Resort in 2014 and renamed. It is the only Nicklaus design among Pinehurst's course lineup. The layout features wide, tree-lined fairways, undulating bentgrass greens, and water hazards rather than the sand waste areas common on other Sandhills courses, playing to a par of 72 over roughly 7,100 yards from the back tees with five sets of tees for varying abilities. Guests reach the course via a complimentary resort shuttle or by driving themselves, and it is generally recommended as a second or third round on a Pinehurst trip rather than a first. As of this writing the course is closed for renovation, with reopening planned for August 2026.