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Designed by Donald Ross in 1927, Pine Needles
measures more than 7,000 yards in length and has
been the site of multiple tournaments including
three U.S. Women’s Open Championships. The
course will welcome the U.S. Senior Women’s Open
Championship in 2019 and the U.S. Women’s Open
Championship in 2022. Recently renovated by
Kyle Franz, the course is ranked in the top 25 of
Golfweek’s “Top 100 Resort Courses in the U.S.A.”
“Having pursued for a number of years the delightful occupation of visiting the best golf
courses in this country and Europe, it is a real pleasure to find here in my old running
ground an ideal golf course. The design of the holes, the construction work and the
natural contours combine to produce at Pine Needles – I do not hesitate to say it – one
of the finest golf courses. I doubt if he has done anything better than this.”
- Robert Hunter (Alister MacKenzie’s design partner at Cypress Point) on the opening of Pine Needles in 1927