Field guide
Our field-guide reviews of the best public and accessible golf courses in North Carolina — what they cost, how they play, and how to get on.
Resort · Pinehurst · 9.7
Donald Ross's masterpiece and America's new permanent U.S. Open home — a deceptively open parkland defended entirely by the most fiendish set of crowned greens in golf. The crown jewel of the Sandhills, and you can actually get on.
Public · Sanford · 9.0
Mike Strantz's fever dream in the Carolina sandhills — blind shots, canyon-sized waste areas, and greens drawn by a cartoonist. You'll love it or hate it. There's no third option.
