Pinehurst Resort is a golf resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina in the United States.
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14 Facts About Pinehurst Resort
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Pinehurst Resort is still home to the annual North and South Amateur Golf Championships, a series of tournaments which includes a Men's Championship, inaugurated in 1901, and the Women's Championship that began two years later.
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In 1999, Pinehurst staged its second major, the U S Open, won by Payne Stewart at the No 2 course.
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Pinehurst Resort now has nine golf courses, three hotels, a spa and extensive sports and leisure facilities.
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Pinehurst Resort was owned by the Tufts family until 1970, when it was sold to Malcom McLean.
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In June 1999, National Public Radio reported that the Pinehurst Resort was using threats of trademark infringement lawsuits to prevent any businesses located in the area of Pinehurst village from using the term "Pinehurst" in their business names.
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Pinehurst Resort operates nine golf courses; the best known, Course No 2, opened in 1907.
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Pinehurst No 2, the most famous course at Pinehurst Resort, was first opened in 1907 and designed by Donald Ross.
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Pinehurst Resort is considered to be Ross' best work and he continued to perfect it until his death in 1948.
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Pinehurst No 4, debatable as the second best course at the Resort was originally laid out by Donald Ross in 1919 but has undergone many significant changes in the years since, so significant that Ross is not credited by the Resort as the course's architect.
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The course has the least amount of housing bordering it of any course at the Pinehurst Resort and as such is a more tranquil round, winding through wetlands and forests, earning it a Signature Sanctuary designation from the Audubon Society in 1996.
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Pinehurst Resort is the home of three championship croquet courts and a lawn bowling court.
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In May 2015 Pinehurst Resort hosted the Solomon Trophy, the international match between teams representing the USA and Great Britain.
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