In 2010, Pinehurst Resort acquired 900 acres in Aberdeen, North Carolina, about five miles south of its main resort complex. The hilly site, formerly a sand-mining operation and later occupied by a Dan Maples-designed golf course called The Pit Golf Links, is now home to Pinehurst No. 10, a striking 18-hole course designed by Tom Doak. Under the supervision of longtime Doak associate Angela Moser, No. 10 was built with remarkable speed and opened in April 2024. Soon, it will be joined by a No. 11 course designed by Coore & Crenshaw, a practice center, and lodging. This satellite facility, named Pinehurst Sandmines, represents Pinehurst’s first original golf development since the debut of Tom Fazio’s No. 8 course in 1996.
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Phursty for more. After Coore & Crenshaw’s restoration of Donald Ross’s No. 2 course in 2011, Pinehurst embarked on a series of capital-improvement projects, including the construction of Gil Hanse’s Cradle short course, overhauls of the No. 1, No. 3, and No. 4 courses, and a renovation of the iconic Carolina Hotel. Pinehurst Sandmines is less the beginning of a new era for the resort and more a continuation of a 15-year-long effort to keep up with upstart competitors like Dream Golf and Cabot.
Teamwork makes the greens work. As is customary on Doak projects, several skillful architects from the Renaissance Golf Design Extended Universe helped to shape greens at Pinehurst No. 10. Eric Iverson, Brian Slawnik, Brian Schneider, Blake Conant, Parker Anderson, and Joe Wandro all lent their expertise to specific greens, as did Doak and Moser themselves. In the Course Tour section of this profile, I’ve listed the primary shaper (or shapers) responsible for each green.
Persuading the boss. In our member video from November 2023, Moser revealed that Doak was initially hesitant about keeping the enormous mining mounds in the middle of the eighth fairway intact. Moser worked to convince him that the existing landscape would work, citing the mogul-strewn 10th hole at Harry Colt’s Utrechtse Golf Club “De Pan” in the Netherlands as a precedent. Ultimately, Doak came around.
