Private Clubs & Country Clubs in Pinehurst

Forest Creek Golf Club is a 36-hole private club set in the historic sandhills of Pinehurst, North Carolina, designed and founded by Hall of Fame architect Tom Fazio in 1996. The club's North Course earned recognition as Golf Digest's third Best New Private Course in the country upon its 2005 opening, while both courses showcase Fazio's signature use of the natural sandhills terrain with challenging bunkering and meticulously maintained greens.

Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina is the most celebrated golf destination in America, founded in 1895 and known worldwide as the "Cradle of American Golf." The legendary No. 2 course, a Donald Ross masterpiece completed in 1907 and later restored by Coore & Crenshaw, has hosted multiple U.S. Opens and is renowned for its distinctive crowned "turtleback" greens. Across nine courses totaling 162 holes, Pinehurst remains an unrivaled concentration of championship golf history on American soil.

Pinewild Country Club of Pinehurst is a private 45-hole golf facility established in 1989 in the heart of North Carolina's renowned Pinehurst golf corridor. The club features two championship 18-hole courses — the Azalea course designed by Gary Player and the Magnolia course by Gene Hamm — along with a nine-hole par-3 course called Holly, and has hosted the 1995 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship.

The Country Club of North Carolina is a premier private club founded in 1963 in the heart of the Pinehurst sandhills, offering 36 holes across two championship layouts. The Dogwood Course, originally designed by Ellis Maples and renovated by Kris Spence in 2016, carries a formidable slope rating of 144, while Willard Byrd's Cardinal Course rounds out a facility consistently ranked among North Carolina's finest. The club has hosted three USGA championships, including the U.S. Junior Amateur in 1980 and 2021, cementing its standing as one of the Carolinas' most accomplished private golf destinations.