First, I need to emphasize that I have no FIRST HAND knowledge. However, when we hosted the Carolinas Fourball in early May, I talked about the Dormie Club with one of the CGA officials who had played there a couple of weeks prior.
He told me:
1) It's a GREAT course. Very different from anything else in Pinehurst, and very challenging but a blast to play.
2) Having just opened, it's far from mature and there're some rough spots in the conditioning but fewer than one might expect in a new course.
3) Very private, but possibly (he was speculating) not impossible to access with an appropriate request.
In this conversation we discussed several relatively new courses in the Carolinas and Virginia, and we agreed that his description of the golfing experience at the Dormie Club was similar to my feelings from Ballyhack (this is not to imply that the courses are even remotely similar). In my view this is high praise indeed, and only raises my hopes that I'll someday be able to play the course.
I know nothing of management/staff structure.
Jamey