Having pursued for a number of years the delightful occupation of visiting the best golf courses in this country and Europe, it is a real pleasure to find here in my old running ground an ideal golf course. The design of the holes, the construction work and the natural contours combine to produce at Pine Needles — I do not hesitate to say it — one of the finest golf courses. I doubt if he has done anything better than this.

Robert Hunter (Alister MacKenzie’s design partner at Cypress Point, upon the opening of Pine Needles)

One of the keys to Pinehurst golf’s early success was Donald Ross’s variations within a common theme. In Ross’s day, being overly repetitive was not the optimal path. This remains the case today. Maintaining fidelity to this aspect of Ross’s approach to design has been a cornerstone of our restorations here.

The most important part of describing the restoration work we have undertaken at Pine Needles, is that we have tried to make all three projects — Pinehurst No. 2, Mid Pines, and Pine Needles — slightly different from each other. It has always been my goal to exhibit different periods of Ross’s evolving Pinehurst style, between the 1910’s and 1940’s, on each course.