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The best golf courses in North Carolina

North Carolina is one of the country's richest, deepest golf states. It's also a microcosm of our biennial America's 100 Greatest and Second 100 Greatest Courses ranking. Contemporary architect Tom Fazio has dominated those lists for more than two decades and in 2023-'24 placed 31 courses among the top 200. Though far behind, there are 13 courses by Golden Age great Donald Ross. Both designers dominate the North Carolina ranking as well, each having primary offices here with Fazio working parts of the year out of Hendesonville and Ross taking up residence in Pinehurst for over four decades. Fazio still gets the better with a total of 13 courses among North Carolina's fist 40 as well as five of the top seven, but Ross closes the gap with 10 Best in State designs of his own, including the top spot, Pinehurst No. 2.

Below you'll find our 2023-'24 ranking of the Best Golf Courses in North Carolina.

We urge you to click through to each individual course page for bonus photography, drone footage and reviews from our course panelists. Plus, you can now leave your own ratings on the courses you’ve played … to make your case why your favorite should be ranked higher. 

1. (2) Pinehurst No. 2

Pinehurst, nc, united states.

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2. (1) Wade Hampton Golf Club

Cashiers, nc, united states.

3. (4) Old Town Club

Winston salem, nc, united states.

Created by architect Perry Maxwell on the heels of his work at Prairie Dunes and Southern Hills, Old Town Club was surprisingly unique, and included perhaps Maxwell’s 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 (some of which were enormous) but rather emulate 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. The course has jumped 45 places in the rankings since it debuted in 2019.

4. (3) Diamond Creek

Banner elk, nc, united states.

5. (7) Mountaintop Golf & Lake Club

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Unlike nearby Wade Hampton G.C., a Tom Fazio design that was routed through natural valleys to forego the need for dynamite, 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.

6. (6) Eagle Point Golf Club

Wilmington, nc, united states.

From Golf Digest Architecture Editor emeritus Ron Whitten:

I played Eagle Point Golf Club, a Tom Fazio design, soon after it became ranked on Golf Digest's 100 Greatest but before it hosted the 2017 Wells Fargo Championship as a one-time substitute for Quail Hollow Club, which hosted the PGA Championship that summer. I walked it with caddies, Director of Golf Billy Anderson and one of the club's founders (and later president) Bobby Long (who was also green chairman at Seminole and a member of Augusta National.) Just before we teed off, golf architect Andrew Green came over and introduced himself. We'd never met. He was designing a short-game facility for the club. Though it may seem strange that Fazio's firm wasn’t retained to do that, it helps to know that Andrew’s brother, Sam, was Eagle Point’s course superintendent at the time. Eagle Point is a beautifully rolling, pine-lined Augusta National clone with huge immaculate greens (bentgrass back then, Champion G12 Bermudagrass now) and gorgeously shaped bunkers which, like at many Tom Fazio designs, seemed to have fully interchangeable parts. I didn’t dislike the look, but I didn’t go head over heels over it, either. Mainly because I’ve seen it all before. The ninth had a wind-blown Wild Dunes vibe to it, the 10th had the long-range view of a Galloway National hole, and the par-5 18th seemed patterned after the seventh at Quail Hollow. When we got to the 13th hole, I remarked to Bobby Long that I liked how Fazio’s people had dug this huge irrigation lake, piled up all the soil into a massive hillside and planted mature pines all over it to make it look like it’s been there forever. “Oh, no, you’re wrong,” Long said. “That hill has been there forever.” Billy then corrected him. “Mr. Long, this was a pasture. They did create that.” Long was surprised, then asked me how I could possibly know that when I’d never been on the property before. (I was tempted to ask him how he, as a club founder, had never found his way back to that corner of the property during construction, but I resisted.) Walking up the last hole, Long asked me if I’d played Fazio's Alotian in Little Rock, and I remarked that I had with Warren Stephens, who was nice enough to then sponsor me at Augusta National. “You’re a member at Augusta National?” Long gasped. (I wish I could recreate in print the tone of astonishment in his voice.) No, no, no, I said. He sponsored me for a weekend of golf there back in 2005. “Oh,” Long said, as he looked at my Dockers khakis and mis-matched socks. Clearly, he was temporarily stricken by the fear that Augusta National had suddenly and drastically lowered its membership qualifications.

7. (5) Quail Hollow Club

Charlotte, nc, united states.

8. (8) Grandfather Golf & Country Club

Linville, nc, united states.

9. (9) Pinehurst No. 4

10. (10) Charlotte Country Club

11. (12) Biltmore Forest Country Club

Asheville, nc, united states.

12. (13) Tobacco Road Golf Club

Sanford, nc, united states.

13. (14) Roaring Gap Club

Roaring gap, nc, united states.

14. (11) Forest Creek Golf Club: North Course

15. (20) Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club

Southern pines, nc, united states.

16. (NR) Linville Golf Club

17. (NR) Southern Pines Golf Club

18. (29) Elk River Club

19. (15) Dormie Club

West end, nc, united states.

20. (23) Linville Ridge

Linville, nc.

21. (NR) High Hampton Resort: High Hampton

Cashiers, nc.

22. (22) Champion Hills Club

Hendersonville, nc, united states.

23. (16) The Country Club of North Carolina: Dogwood

24. (25) Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club

25. (19) Balsam Mountain Preserve

Sylva, nc, united states.

26. (21) Pinehurst No. 8

27. (NR) Raleigh Country Club: Raleigh

Raleigh, nc.

28. (18) Sedgefield Country Club

Greensboro, nc, united states.

29. (24) Old North State Club

New london, nc, united states.

30. (17) Forest Creek Golf Club: South Course

31. (26) Old Chatham Golf Club

32. (27) The Cliffs At Walnut Cove

33. The Cardinal By Pete Dye

Greensboro, nc.

34. (NR) Cape Fear Country Club

35. (NR) Trump National Golf Club Charlotte

Mooresville, nc, united states.

36. (NR) Greensboro Country Club Farm Course

37. (NR) Bright's Creek

Mill spring, nc, united states.

38. (28) The Country Club of North Carolina: Cardinal

39. (30) Treyburn Country Club

Durham, nc, united states.

40. (NR) Duke University Golf Club

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2022 Wyndham Championship: Live stream, watch online, TV schedule, channel, tee times, radio, golf coverage

The final event of the pga tour regular season is set to take place this week in north carolina.

The regular season of the PGA Tour finishes up at the 2022 Wyndham Championship which began Thursday at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. With several players vying for FedEx Cup Playoff spots and PGA Tour playing privileges on the line, every shot will be magnified around this Donald Ross design.

Though play has concluded on Saturday, the third-round action still needs to be completed as inclement weather wreaked havoc over Greensboro. Round 3 was halted on Saturday with Sungjae Im and Brandon Wu sharing the top spot on the leaderboard at 12 under. The third-round action will tee off at 7:30 a.m. ET on Sunday with the final round to immediately follow. 

All times Eastern; streaming start times approximated

Rounds 3 & 4 - Sunday

Round starts:  7:30 a.m.

PGA Tour Live:  7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. --  PGA Tour Live Early TV coverage:  1-3 p.m. on Golf Channel

Live TV coverage:  3-6 p.m. on CBS Live simulcast:  3-6 p.m. on  CBSSports.com  and the  CBS Sports App

Radio:  1-6 p.m. --  PGA Tour Radio

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Ryan Gerard had a taste of the PGA TOUR a season ago. He liked it so much, he earned a return trip.

Gerard finished tied for seventh at last week's Albertsons Boise Open, his 10th top-25 finish of the season, to solidify his top-30 spot on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List for a PGA TOUR card. Gerard, 25, earned his first Korn Ferry Tour title at the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX in June, which vaulted him from No. 69 to No. 10 on the season-long standings, and he hasn't fallen outside the top 15 since.

The University of North Carolina alum ranks No. 13 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List with three events remaining; the top 30 after the Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance will earn 2025 PGA TOUR status. Gerard cannot fall outside the top 30 and is hence #TOURBound.

"It has really just been a dream as long as I could possibly remember, to play on the PGA TOUR, and just to have that opportunity again, it's really special and it means a lot," Gerard said. "There are hundreds of really good players that aren't on the PGA TOUR, and a lot of them are on the Korn Ferry (Tour), and guys are really, really, really good at golf ... It's an achievement, because it's that hard to do, and it's really special when you get it done."

Gerard has taken a circuitous route to this point. The 2022 UNC-Chapel Hill graduate competed on PGA TOUR Canada that summer and finished No. 5 on the season-long standings to earn Korn Ferry Tour membership. After just four early-season Korn Ferry Tour starts in 2023, he Monday qualified into the TOUR's Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches and finished fourth, then placed 11th at the next week's Puerto Rico Open en route to securing TOUR Special Temporary Membership at the Valero Texas Open. Roughly nine months after completing his college education, he suddenly had a full slate of TOUR starts.

Gerard couldn't quite retain that form, notching just one further TOUR top-25 in 2023 (he made 22 starts overall), and he failed to match the top-125 on the FedExCup (after the FedExCup Fall) required to earn 2024 TOUR membership. He tied for 71st at Q-School's Final Stage and returned to the Korn Ferry Tour in 2024, but he did so with a spark and determination to return to the game's highest level.

The North Carolina native remembers putting out on his final hole of the 2023 PGA TOUR season, missing the cut at The RSM Classic, and thinking to himself that he hoped it wasn't his final moment on TOUR. He can now refrain from such worries.

About Ryan Gerard

Age: 25 Hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina Alma mater: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill PGA TOUR starts: 23 Cuts made: 12 Best PGA TOUR finish: Fourth, 2023 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches

Notes: Finished No. 20 on 2022 PGA TOUR University Ranking ... Was a college teammate of TOUR pro Ben Griffin at UNC-Chapel Hill ... His dad Robert played collegiate golf at Florida Atlantic ... First broke par at a 2006 U.S. Kids World Championship qualifier, when he didn't realize he was even playing a competitive round ... One of his family dogs is named Stevie, after Steve Stricker, one of his mom Judy's favorite golfers ... Avid fan of Carolina Panthers.

Ryan Gerard's interview after clinching PGA TOUR card at Albertsons

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