Anthony:
Are you sure you are talking about #2 and not the other courses at the Pinehurst Resort? There are not very many houses adjacent to #2, and I have rarely (if ever) seen a live human being it the back yards of any of those houses while playing the course. I know most of the people who own those houses on #2. I doubt if many of them have a grill in the back yard, and none of the ones I know would be caught dead in their yards in boxers. In fact, most of them probably don't know how to fire up a grill. I think you are putting out bad info, but that's not uncommon on this site. Many seem to confuse Pinehurst with Southern Pines and Aberdeen. Someone recently posted that Pinehurst was plastic with lots of chain restaurants and retail stores. There are NO chain restaurants in Pinehurst. There is one Exxon station, a Jos A. Banks store, and a Lowe's grocery store on the edge of town, but I believe those are actually in Taylor Town. Almost all of the commercial crap and most of the golf courses (other than the 8 Resort courses) are outside of Pinehurst. There may be many fair criticisms of Pinehurst, but "plastic" is not one of them. BTW, I'm happy to report that Tobacco Road is 25 miles from Pinehurst in a neighboring county!
Jim Lewis