Southern Pines Golf Club
Southern Pines Golf Club, a vintage Donald Ross-designed course dating to the early 1900s, is now under management of the company that owns and operates Pine Needles and Mid Pines in Southern Pines, North Carolina. The course has undergone an 18-month improvement plan that included design tweaks from architect Kyle Franz, who has supervised restorations at Mid Pines (2013) and Pine Needles (2018.) The restoration started with tree removal and bunker work in December 2020, before moving on to work on the greens, cart paths, and other areas of the course to restore Donald Ross’ original design.
On every hole of the course, we widened the fairways to make them more inviting for the beginning level players, but also allow more advanced players to strategize. Removing the maintained rough around the greens and making it all clean fairway height will encourage players to be creative and have more fun. To improve the course’s irrigation, we installed all new piping around the greens with new wiring in the fairways, and tackled a great deal of bunkers. Our goal was to make the golf course feel as much like a Ross original, staying true to the well preserved routing and trying to remove the superfluous elements that have been added over the decades.
Course Details
Course Architect: Donald Ross
Location: Southern Pines, NC
Minutes from Talamore: 5
Other Partner Courses
Talamore Golf Club
Designed by the U.S. Open Doctor, Rees Jones, Talamore Golf Club is known as one of the most fun and playable course in the Sandhills area. The sister course of Mid South Club, Talamore never disappoints. “Scotland and the NC Sandhills Collide” with the addition of 12 strategically placed, old-world style sod wall bunkers. Talamore is the only course in the Village of Pinehurst/Southern Pines area with multiple sod wall bunkers.
Mid South Club
Designed by the U.S. Open Doctor, Rees Jones, Talamore Golf Club is known as one of the most fun and playable course in the Sandhills area. The sister course of Mid South Club, Talamore never disappoints. “Scotland and the NC Sandhills Collide” with the addition of 12 strategically placed, old-world style sod wall bunkers. Talamore is the only course in the Village of Pinehurst/Southern Pines area with multiple sod wall bunkers.
