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10 Most beautiful Golf Courses in North Carolina

 It is better than golfing in Carolina this is because the place has lush fairways, year-round sun, and also acres of beautiful pine. When visiting North Carolina you can visit the coast, mountains at elevation, high desert plateaus, and the rich soil of wine country.  The ocean isle beach of the North Carolina golf community has 72 holes of golf, the oceanfront beach club, a fitness center, and a four-acre fishing pound. Some of the beautiful golf courses in North Carolina include;

1. Carolina National  Golf Club

Carolina National Golf Club is a 27-hole Fred Couples signature golf course. It is winding through rich low country terrain. The course features several dramatic views of the Lockwood Folly River. It has been recognized by Golf Digest as one of the finest North Carolina golf courses on the eastern seaboard.

The golf club has  100 acres of wetlands that take pride in upholding the principles of environmental stewardship such as maintaining a refuge for wildlife and a healthy environment.

It is located in Brunswick County between Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina.  Carolina national golf club has a semi-private club that offers great value membership options and is also open to the public every day with advance tee-time booking options.

2. Old town club

Rizal Park Intramuros GolfClub, photo by Ramon

The Old town club was Created by architect Perry Maxwell. It was unique, and  Maxwell鈥檚 only surviving double green. When Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw were hired to address the bunkering at Old Town, they opted not to reproduce the original bunkers. But they emulated their gnarly shapes, edges, and vegetation in places where bunkers naturally fit.

Lots of trees had already been removed, but the architects convinced the club to get rid of even more. Now, a single swath of fairway connects the seventh, eighth, ninth, 17th, and 18th holes. Very unique.

it’s mostly the lovely setting of pines that will keep your attention. If you want 36 holes, just head across the street to its sister course though it is very pricey at peak times ($200) and the season is short.

3. Mountaintop Golf and Lake Club

Mountaintop was blasted from solid rock. Some holes were forged through slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains, like the par-4 sixth, edged by a 30-foot-high wall of granite on the right. Conservative estimates are that all that rock removal raised the cost of construction of this continuous-18 layout to $1 million per hole.

The opening tee shot drops 100 feet, and six holes also play over a deep gorge formed by Hurricane Creek. Mountaintop proves there is no property too rugged for Tom Fazio.

4. Charlotte Country Club

Country Club golf, photo by Philips Academy-

 Ross expanded the Charlotte country club’s original nine-hole course in 1915, remodeled it while adding grass greens in 1925, and further tinkered with it in the 1940s. In the 1960s, Robert Trent Jones rearranged holes to create a practice range and redesigned the others. Still, it was until 2007 that the club felt it should restore its Ross design.  Ross-expert Ron Prichard convinced them it wasn鈥檛 smart to simply replicate holes from a 70-year-old aerial photograph because golf technology has changed.

Prichard rebuilt all greens and bunkers in the style of Ross but improvised the green contours based on what he鈥檚 observed at other Ross layouts. He also installed SubAir cooling systems beneath the greens, one example of how times have certainly changed since Ross鈥檚 day.

5. The Currituck Club

 The Currituck Club is on the Outer Banks in Corolla. It is most famous for its wild horses roaming the beaches north of town. While on the southern end of town there鈥檚 a fantastic golf course right along the Currituck.

Golf is best played near the ocean. There鈥檚 something about playing golf with the smell of saltwater in the air, and that鈥檚 what you鈥檒l find at the Currituck Club.  The club is known to be a private club, has membership, and is also open for the public to play. It was designed by Rees Jones. The course can provide a perfect golf day during your Outer Banks vacation.

6. Grove Park Golf Course

Galloway public golf course, photo by Thomas  

 The famous Grove Park Inn in Asheville Grove Park Inn is an Omni hotel and resort that is treated in its own right  The massive stone hotel has an iconic red roof that looms above the course while you play.

Asheville is in the far western part of North Carolina that is nestled into the Blue Ridge Mountains. The Grove Park Golf Course was designed by Donald Ross like the way Frank Lloyd Wright designed the best structure in many cities. Donald Ross designed nearly every great golf course in North Carolina.

7. Pine Needles Golf Course

Pine Needles is often viewed as the most important golf course in the women鈥檚 game. It has hosted three U.S. Women鈥檚 Opens and will host a fourth in 2022. The course was purchased in 1954 by Peggy Kirk Bell and is one of the LPGA鈥檚 founding members. She led the restoration of the course and then became the head golf instructor.

Both Mid Pines and Pine Needles were refurbished in the 2010s by Kyle Franz. He didn鈥檛 change any of the layouts but restored the 鈥渆dges鈥� of the courses to their original Ross designs with sand waste areas and beds of pine needles everywhere. This has led to a resurgence of both courses and will make for a gorgeous U.S. Women鈥檚 Open in 2022.

8. Wilmington Municipal Golf Course

 The municipal golf course was designed by Donald Ross. the southern Pines was a course where you could play a Ross design for, at most, $85. Wilmington Municipal Golf Course is a Ross track you can walk during the week for $37. And residents of Wilmington pay only $27.

9. Quail Hollow Club

Justin Thomas (golfer) after winning the 2017 PGA Champions at Quail Hollow Club, photo by PGA of America

Quail Hollow has mainly the front nine that was redesigned just a year before it hosted the 2017 PGA Championship, won by Justin Thomas. The par-4 first and par-3 second holes were completely torn up, replaced by a new long dogleg-right par-4 opening hole.

It has several acres of pines to the left of the fifth tee that was removed to make room for a new par-3 fourth. (With its knobby green fronted by three traps, it proved to be the most frustrating hole for pros in the 2017 PGA.) More pines were removed to the left of the par-4 11th, replaced by bunkers, and even more, trees were chopped down on a hill left of the par-4 18th to make room for money-making hospitality boxes.

Though the latest remodeling was rushed it improved the course. Look for Fazio to change the awkward par-4 second before Quail Hollow鈥檚 next big event

10. Pinehurst 

Pinehurst, photo by Dan Perry

Pinehurst has always been something of a Mulligan Stew. It was created in the 1950s using parts from other resort courses. It鈥檚 undergone a succession of renovations over the years by Robert Trent Jones, Rees Jones, and Tom Fazio. The most recent version attempted to differentiate the design from the other Pinehurst offerings with a garden-like presentation studded with pot bunkers.

Hanse and Wagner鈥檚 new iteration ties the resort鈥檚 long-established genetics with exposed sand, provocative green contours, broad fairways, and contiguous short grass recovery areas. While it looks at home in the Pinehurst sandhills, it functions as an extroverted counterpoint to the No. 2 course鈥檚 subtler stateliness.