For many years, Tot Hill Farm Golf Club was a designer course with a budget maintenance budget. That changed when Charleston golf course owner Pat Barber bought the Asheboro course in December 2022 and closed the course for repairs. Tot Hill Farm reopened in September 22023 with new greens, upgraded cart paths and a new…
Five years ago, Forest Oaks Country Club teetered on the brink of extinction. Today, it stands rejuvenated, boasting a golf course and amenities befitting a venue that once proudly hosted a PGA Tour event for three decades, from 1977 to 2007. Under the stewardship of former members Terry Lee and Eddie Stephens, the Forest Oaks…
The new 10th course at Pinehurst Resort will have a distinctive name reflecting its unique setting and local history. The resort announced the course would be known as Pinehurst Sandmines, though it is still also referred to as Pinehurst No. 10. The course, scheduled to open in May, is routed on more than 900 acres,…
The sizes of the undulating greens, gradually reduced over the past three decades, have been restored with new TifEagle Bermuda at one of the Triad’s elite golf courses. The bunkers have been rebuilt, with some moved and a few added, to compensate for distance gains due to improved golf equipment. A few hundred encroaching trees…
Kris Spence couldn’t see much when he first visited the Maples Course at Woodlake Country Club, a residential community in Moore County about 14 miles northeast of Southern Pines. In 2021, when the Greensboro golf architect first looked over the remnants of a course designed in 1971 by Ellis Maples and Ed Seay, he said…
If you want a play a course that’s hosted a major United States Golf Association tournament, the best place to go is Pinehurst. It’s probably no coincidence that the USGA is building its second headquarters adjacent to Pinehurst Resort. And the USGA’s arrival with memorabilia, testing facilities and more is only one of the region’s…
Tot Hill Farm Golf Club has reopened with new greens, upgraded cart paths and a new clubhouse, fittingly in a restored old farmhouse. Since opening in 2000, Tot Hill Farm has received acclaim. Golf Digest has named its third hole the best No. 3 hole in the nation, and just last year, referred to its…
The highly acclaimed Winston-Salem course closed April 16 to make several structural improvements, including the change of the surfaces of the undulating greens from bentgrass to bermudagrass Tif-Eagle. The club will also complete installation of the Better Billy Bunker system in its 80 sand bunkers, improve cart paths and complete other updates around the course…
Brown said that GreatLife and Sapona club members wanted to begin the relationship with GreatLife managing the course as “sort of a dry run” toward ownership. GreatLife intends on purchasing the club and investing around $500,000 in the property in 2024, CEO John M. Brown told Triad Business Journal on Monday, January 30, 2023. Sapona…