GOLF VACATIONS AT THE CARDINAL COURSE
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GOLF VACATIONS 1600 Morganton Rd Pinehurst, NC 28374-6838
In a breakdown of regions, the Sandhills Top 10 are: Pinehurst No. 2, Pine Needles, Country Club of North Carolina (Dogwood), Forest Creek (South), Pinehurst No. 8, Pinehurst No. 4, National Golf Club, Country Club of North Carolina (Cardinal), Forest Creek (North) and Mid South Club.
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The Cardinal Golf & Country Club is home to one of North Carolina's finest golf courses, The Cardinal has more than just golf vacations ,it is a community of people who enjoy the finer things in life. People who possess an uncompromising desire to live a lifestyle that others only dream about. Visit the Cardinal Golf Club, and see for yourself why we believe it's the best kept secret in all the Carolinas. The History of CCNC Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst lies nestled in the Sandhills, formed when the sea had finished with this land millions of years ago and had left the wind to sift the sand for untold millennia. It is now a unique world of gleaming sand, gently rolling hills and clear water.
Five hundred feet above sea level; it has a temperate climate, being protected by the Appalachians on one side and the Atlantic on the other. The Club lies on some 2000 acres of land which include three lakes (the largest, Lake Watson, has sixty acres) and two eighteen-golf courses of world-class caliber. The lordly longleaf pines dominate its deciduous sisters on the landscape. These trees-over, 100 feet high, harbor the endangered Red Cockaded Woodpecker. These birds refuse to nest in any other tree and experts speculated that this colony's ancestry dates to the maturity of these trees some 250 years ago. Two miles away, the village of Pinehurst was laid out by James W. Tufts in 1895. Tufts, a highly successful Boston businessman had retired, was in frail health and thought the salubrious climate of the Sandhills would benefit him and others wishing to escape New England winters. He bought 5000 acres of land for $1.00 an acre; a member of the selling Page family (Walter Hines Page was Ambassador to the Court of St. James during World War I) commented that, "...as much as I dislike Yankees it is inexcusable to have gouged them this way."Tufts constructed a nine hole golf course in 1898. Then, in 1900 he hired Donald Ross, a native Dornoch, Scotland, who had just completed his apprenticeship at St. Andrews, to come to Pinehurst. Bringing young Ross to America would profoundly affect American golf vacations. Ross designed over 600 golf courses across the country (eight in the Sandhills including Number 2 at Pinehurst-Home of the 1999 U.S. Open. Ross died in Pinehurst in 1948. golf vacations back to homepage
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SOUTHERN PINES, NC – Out of nearly 600 golf vacations throughout North Carolina, the Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen area garnered 20 spots in the list of Top 100 courses in the state, this month in Business North Carolina magazine. The rankings are compiled based on votes cast by the North Carolina Golf Panel, which consists of media members, club professionals and general managers, industry executives, notable amateurs and business executives.
The rankings are designed to be appreciated by a broad spectrum of golfers.
