No. 10 | Pinehurst Resort (2024)

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Pinehurst No. 3 poses the strongest challenge to the notion of the par-72, 7,000-yard standard of any golf course I have encountered.

The rating of Pinehurst Resort & Country Club - No. 10 is 74.1. The slope of Pinehurst Resort & Country Club - No. 10 is 142.

Tom Watson's 62 at Pinehurst No. 2 back in 1973 at the World Open still remains the course record.

An 18-Hole Homage To Mother Nature & Father Time. No. 10 is Pinehurst's first new course in nearly three decades, but in truth it's been centuries, even millennia, in the making. The landscape underlying Tom Doak's new design features native wiregrass, sweeping landscape and rolling hills formed by geology.

The Pounding Heartof Pinehurst Resort. Donald Ross's masterpiece, No. 2 at Pinehurst has served as the site of more single golf championships than any other course in America. It has also hosted back-to-back U.S. Open and U.S. Women's Open Championships in 2014, and recently the 2024 U.S. Open.

One of the most severe greens on the course is at the par-5 fifth. The putting surface is approximately 7,000 square feet but plays much smaller since the perimeter is un-pinnable and curves off into troughs of short grass on the right and long.

Often known as 'turtlebacks', almost all of the 18 greens on No. 2 have a very small middle of the green, with the rest sloping downwards in every direction. The greens themselves are firm and fast, meaning more punishment for those who get the velocity or spin of their iron play wrong.

If you want to play a second round on No. 2, it's $595 peak season and $360 in the off-season, caddie not included. Bottom line: what you pay for No. 2 depends on the type of package and the time of year.

The first golf course was laid out in 1897-98, and the first championship held at Pinehurst was the United North and South Amateur Championship of 1901. Pinehurst's best known course, "Pinehurst No. 2," was completed in 1907 to designs by Donald Ross, who became associated with Pinehurst for nearly half a century.

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Forest Creek Golf Club: North Course

Tom Fazio did the first 18 at Pinehurst's ultra-private Forest Creek G.C., the South Course, in 1996, carving it from a rolling pine forest, with most tee shots playing downhill and most greens amenable to low, running shots.

No. 10 is the first step in the development of the 900-acre Pinehurst Sandmines property five miles south of the resort's century-old nerve center. It's located not in the village of Pinehurst but in the town of Aberdeen (how Scottish!).

Strategically, what always strikes me about No. 2 is that you have to play the course backwards, knowing where the hole is that day, then plotting where you want your approach angle to be from, which then dictates where you need to position your drive.

In these spots, the fairway will often run at an awkward angle to the line of play or swerve around a hazard. This combination of topographical movement and fairway orientation makes the tee shots at Pinehurst No. 2 uniquely challenging.

The seventh hole had the most significant amount of work of any hole on No. 2 with an expanded fairway, new back tee and sandy rough all down the right side. It will be about a 280- to 300-yard carry the dogleg right. A par-5 for regular play, this will continue to play as a par-4 during the championship.