Golf Digest's Matt Ginella reports that Bill Coore is designing Pinehurst No. 9, which will be on the site of the Pit course. Interesting that it's only Coore -- and not Crenshaw. At least the Q&A doesn't mention Ben in regards to No. 9.
The link to Matt's extensive interview about Pinehurst with the resort president Don Padgett Jr about No. 2, the US Open, No. 9, etc.
http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/blogs/wheres-matty-g/2012/05/bill-coores-latest-pinehurst-n.html#entry-moreThe excerpt on No. 9...
The last time we spoke (February 2011), you had just bought the Pit. You went on to close the course and focus on the reopening of No. 2. Is there any update on what was the Pit? "Bill Coore was assigned to do a routing, which I think he’s close to completing. I have not seen it, but he has told me that he is almost there. We’re not going to pull the trigger anytime in the immediate future, but [Pinehurst owner] Bob Dedman would love to build that golf course. Bill [Coore] feels like it will be a very, very good golf course. He would be excited to build it. A lot of the land he’d use would be in the 150 acres east of what was the Pit golf course. That’s the parcel that Bill likes the best. At some point there will be a No. 9 at Pinehurst."
You’re back to 2008 numbers and you almost have a routing, so you’re probably closer to pulling the trigger now than you were a year ago."We’re a lot closer than we were six months ago."
As long as you’re sharing the news of a No. 9, is there going to be a No. 10?"I’d say we’re more likely to have nine. Unless we were to acquire something, there’s no land in the vicinity to do the 10th golf course. If we were going to do it, we’d want to make sure it was as significant as Bill assures us No. 9 will be."