[Alex Podlogar_Pinehurst Resort]

Bill Coore looks at Pinehurst No. 2, five years later. By Lee Pace:

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[Scott Weersing]

Brown is still beautiful. Or painted light green is a good way to go with dormant bermuda.


I still want to get down to Pinehurst play no. 2.

[Carl Rogers]

Last December on a warm day, I ponied up, drove the 4 hours and played.  The television make the green complexes seem very pedestrian.  Untrue, to say the least!!!!  The 18th hole is a lot more uphill than it looks.
For a player of modest abilities off the more forward tees, it was quite, quite, quite a handful.  If another warm December comes around I might do it again.

[Joe Bausch]

I wish I had better lighting on my only visit to No 2 a little over a year ago:

http://xchem.villanova.edu/~bausch/images/albums/PinehurstNo2/


Still a good album, IMO.

[Ryan Farrow]

Just to follow up Lee Pace's article. Just around that same time he interviewed Bill, I was in town and had a chance to see and play #2 for the first time. Below are some photos that show what Bill is talking about in the interview. As he said, the transitions from fairway to native are just about as perfect as one could hope. The management of the sandy scrub area is a thing of beauty, a perfect balance of pine straw, sand, & wire grass that is immensely playable.   


One thing I have come to realize is that golf is meant to be played in Spring here in Pinehurst (among other southern states). The weeds and growth during the summer months are hard to manage and you could see that during the US Open and on other courses around Pinehurst like Tobacco Road.


Anyways, here are some of my photos from early March:

[Terry Lavin]

On the Course On Canvas card it's really great. Having played it before the redo and having watched the US Open played thereafter, I can't say I'm dying to play it again. Those greens are way too hard to hit and hold, for any level of player.

[Philip Hensley]

On the Course On Canvas card it's really great. Having played it before the redo and having watched the US Open played thereafter, I can't say I'm dying to play it again. Those greens are way too hard to hit and hold, for any level of player.

I have played it 4 times in the last month, 3 times from the white tees and once from blues. Did not play or see well struck shots that were not held by the greens. I think the player psychs himself out about potential trouble and hits a bad shot more often than the greens actually don't hold.

In fact, when the greens were still dormant in February they were very sticky, many bad shots were holding the greens.

[Terry Lavin]

Well that's good to hear.  It looked like Ping-Pong at the US Open, and those guys know how to hit their irons!

[Ryan Taylor]

It was certainly ping-pong for a 10 person group of single digits last weekend! Flighting the ball with spin and hitting it left to right into the greens was your only chance. (I can do one but not the ither) Perfect, perfect conditions last Thurs and Fri!

Two adjustments I would make to your future rounds (caddy suggestion): 1) Play Hole 3 from 300 or so yards and 2) Play Hole 17 from 205+ yards

[Philip Hensley]

Well that's good to hear.  It looked like Ping-Pong at the US Open, and those guys know how to hit their irons!

US Open is a cute little tourney, and I don't want to brag, but I was 2016 Fly & Drive Champion 

[Andrew Buck]

On the Course On Canvas card it's really great. Having played it before the redo and having watched the US Open played thereafter, I can't say I'm dying to play it again. Those greens are way too hard to hit and hold, for any level of player.

I have played it 4 times in the last month, 3 times from the white tees and once from blues. Did not play or see well struck shots that were not held by the greens. I think the player psychs himself out about potential trouble and hits a bad shot more often than the greens actually don't hold.

In fact, when the greens were still dormant in February they were very sticky, many bad shots were holding the greens.

Yep, I thought they held just fine last summer and I can't wait to get back this summer.  Putting was extremely difficult for me, as they broke and rolled out more than I anticipated, but I believe I hit more greens than any round in the area that week.

[Philip Hensley]

I would not be able to read the greens without a caddie

[Carl Rogers]

I would not be able to read the greens without a caddie

See my response above.  Yes, agreed.  My Caddy at P#2, the only time I ever had one in my life, was responsible for me making at least 4 putts I would not have made and avoiding making some bad approach putts.

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