After 5 awesome days at Myrtle Beach, I headed to the last destination of this road trip, Pinehurst, NC. Seeing that I'll be heading back to California soon, I wanted to do something special to end the trip and there is no better place than Pinehurst. There is just so much history at this place with all the different US Opens and famous designers that has made their mark here. In fact, the 2014 US Open will be played at Pinehurst No.2!
Pinehurst Resort consist of 8 different golf courses designed by the likes of Rees Jones (#7), Tom Fazio (#6), and of course Donald Ross (#2.) The resort was founded in 1895 when the Holly Inn (where I'm staying at) was build. I can definitely tell the age of the building by the layout and warmness of the Inn. The Carolina was built in 1901 as the main hotel to accommodate the growing number of resort guests. The package I booked included golf, breakfast, and two fine dinners at the fine dining restaurants. Not a bad deal!
I started my experience yesterday at Pinehurst with a 7:51am tee time on Pinehurst #6. I got there about 1hr early to hit balls after not sleeping the night before do to sheer excitement of this week. Since I'll be playing 3 rounds at Pinehurst, I wanted to walk at least two of the rounds. So I carried my bag (no push carts allowed) and walked #6. I was out as a single since trucking along with my bag and had a 3-some in carts behind me. These guys were in a rush to catch a flight so I let them play through. Good thing since I don't like to be pushed, especially when I'm playing a 3.5hr round. Well, I scored my personal best of 83 at Pinehurst #6. All I wanted since I played last week was to break 90 at Pinehurst and I did it. Goal Accomplished!
Today, I decided to take a cart since I'll be walking again tomorrow. I arrived at the Pinehurst #7, a Rees Jones (Robert Trent Jone's Son) designed course from 1986. This course is much different from #6 with all the doglegs and elevation changes. Many of the holes were designed with a elevated tee box tempting the player to bomb the drives. However, the approach shots had elevated greens so club selection was key since it plays longer than it actually is. We played from the white tees today at 6324 yards but the starter says it really plays closer to about 6700 from the whites. I was paired with a couple from Boston, Mark and Janet and the funny thing is we are paired up again tomorrow at Pinehurst #2. There were great playing partners and I'm looking to finish my final round of my trip with a such a fun couple.
Here are the pics from Pinehurst #6 and #7. I'll give a report of Pinehurst #2 tomorrow.
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