Pinehurst Number 2:
This Donald Ross masterpiece is the pinnacle of golf in North Carolina, and the highlight of our time here at the resort.
It has served as the site of more single golf championships than any course in America and, in 2014, hosted 14 days of championship play with back to back U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open Championships for the first time in their history.
Donald Ross called it “the fairest test of championship golf I have ever designed.” Ross was associated with the course for nearly a half-century, improving the course continually until his death in 1948.
No. 2 is best known for its crowned, undulating greens, which are some of the most complex and widely hailed in the world. Ross believed in providing golfers with strategic choices, and Pinehurst No. 2 was intended to epitomize that philosophy.
Number 2 was the site of Payne Stewart's famous victory ahead of Phil Mickelson in 1999, sadly only a short few months before his untimely death in an aeroplane crash.
The course has undergone a massive transformation since then, with Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw assigned the restoration task in 2010.
And what a magnificent job they did. Not only has it been returned to a sandbelt type feel, but the course is much more environmentally sound.
To view more information on the restoration process, click HERE.
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