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Doak updates progress on Pinehurst’s 10th golf course

By Staff Report, posted 3 years ago
Aerial view of the progress of the golf course courtesy of Pinehurst Resort

Back in January, Pinehurst Resort staff announced plans to break ground on its first new golf course in nearly 30 years. Fast forward to present day, and the construction of the course is progressing rapidly. 

Tom Doak, a well respected golf course architect and the designer of this new course, explained why the progress of Pinehurst’s 10th Course is moving so quickly, and what he’s excited about regarding what’s to come next in the design.

“It’s going pretty fast. And we’re pretty quick on shaping greens… I’ll come in for a week at a time and we’re working on five or six greens every time I’m here, but the rest of it, it doesn’t have to be up to that speed really. And here because, either because of the contractor’s schedule and our schedule it’s like all those other parts are zooming right behind and keeping up with the greens,” remarked Doak in a press video. 

“Construction is like a three ring circus. You shape stuff and then you do all the infrastructure, the irrigation, the drainage underneath, and then you rake it all down and you plant the grass, and all three rings of the three ring circus are going, so in the middle of this project, you get to the point where you’re still shaping holes that really not much has happened, and at the same time this is going to have grass growing on this green in a couple of weeks,” said Doak in a press video.

Doak gave a rundown of how the course is laid out.

“It starts out pretty gentle then it goes into some of the old quarry works from the pit and it gets downright crazy for a little bit and then it gets up on the hill and there is a big view. And then really all the holes coming back are fairly dramatic even when you get even when you get down into the gentler terrain you’ve got water in play on 15 and 17. It’s a pretty dramatic golf course, more than I thought,” shared Doak in a press video. 

Doak’s 18-hole routing is expected to open late spring of 2024.

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