Restoration/renovation of Asheville Muni continues. Big chunk of $2.9 million budget addressing drainage problems, most notably age-old issues on 10th and 11th holes (shown). Bunkers, playing surfaces, facility accessories all major upgrades at 1927 Donald Ross design.

The grandeur of low tech. Please, Biltmore Forest Country 'Club, don't ever change. Lock & key, push button light switches, blueberry white chocolate chip cookies.

Amazing story ... Michael McGowan (Michael McGowan), son of former PGA Tour player Pat and grandson of Peggy Kirk Bell and former UNC Men's Golf player, qualifies for U.S. Open at Pinehurst Resort. McGowan shot 68-71 at Dallas Athletic Club on Monday to earn spot in final field.

Says Mack Brown upon seeing Rucker five years ago: 'He was costing people scholarships left and right. No one could block him. I walked over and asked our coaches, 'Who is THAT?''

The new USGA Experience and World Golf Hall of Fame opened last week at Pinehurst. Open Wed-Sunday thru June 9 and US Open, no charge through then. Interesting display of Pinehurst history, and HOF anchored around lockers with inductee memorabilia.

At the age of 12, Akshay Bhatia said he wanted to become the first person to shoot a 59 at The Masters. The Wake Forest wunderkind hasn't quite hit that benchmark, but he will tee it up on The Deuce Pinehurst Resort for the 2024 U.S. Open.

On this day 100 years ago, Charles Ronald Justice was born in Asheville. He carried a football and ran, someone said, “like a runaway train, we should call him Choo Choo.” Justice amassed 4,883 yards from 1946-49 and defined the post-World War II era and beyond in Chapel Hill.

... And one of the coolest touches is this new walkway from the interior of the club onto the first tee of The Deuce.

Amid the hammers and nails of building a mini-city Pinehurst Resort for the 2024 U.S. Open is a quiet but classy renovation of the Members Club. Contestants will take over the Men's Locker Room. Exceptional design and details ...

Max is the perfect write-in candidate for President.

Congrats to UNC Men's Golf for qualifying for national finals in Carlsbad, Calif., May 24-29. Golfstat

Notice what's covered up? The Payne Stewart statue. Creative move to temporarily relocate statue to main entrance for U.S. Open so more people can see it and take photos. Statue, by the way, on temporary hiatus to studio of sculptor Zenos Frudakis for polishing.

Before there was 'basketball on grass,' there was Chris Kupec, who nailed an NCAA record 69.3% of his passes in 1974 for Carolina Football in winning All-ACC honors. Kupec went on to a distinguished legal career. Saddened to hear of his passing on May 8th. Memorials c/o The Rams Club

... and the Myrtle Beach Classic at The Dunes Club in Myrtle Beach, the historic Robert Trent Jones design from the late 1940s that was once featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post (10th hole shown).

Big week in the Carolinas for PGA TOUR golf with the Wells Fargo in Charlotte at Quail Hollow, where club president Johnny Harris and architect Tom Fazio have engineered a total overhaul the last 25 years (17th hole shown) ...

Only differences in setup of The Deuce Pinehurst Resort between 2014 and '24 U.S. Open will be greens are now Bermuda, some 100k wire grass plants have been planted and 13 fairway (shown here) narrowed to 28 yards. This ball before would have been fairway, now you get pot luck.

Imagine condos in the triangle of woods between the 1st, 17th and 18th holes on The Deuce Pinehurst Resort . It could have happened. That it did not is one of the most important but under-told stories in the history of the club and village.

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The architect himself and his classic MacKenzie Golf Bags walker prior to golf on his design for the No. 10 course Pinehurst Resort.

Nourishment en route to No. 10 course Pinehurst Resort … The Track, Tom Doak and The Golfer's Journal.

The very essence of the Coore & Crenshaw restoration of The Deuce Pinehurst Resort from 2010-11: No more uniform Bermuda rough. Maybe you get a clean lie. Maybe you're screwed. And that's not a hotel to the right of 10th green. Just an entertainment venue for U.S. Open.