Welcome to our new Where to Play newsletter, where we’ll highlight the latest in the travel and courses world. I’m Steve Hennessey, and I oversee Golf Digest’s course content, which includes our rankings like America’s 100 Greatest Courses. My job takes me to golf’s best places—and I’d like to share an exclusive look at one of the most exciting new courses being built.
Pinehurst #11 will open next spring on a site that Bill Coore described as “the most uniquely interesting landforms Ben [Crenshaw] and I have ever encountered.” I got to walk the site with Coore and a group from the American Society of Golf Course Architects a few months ago. We were all blown away. Pinehurst #11 sits within the resort’s Sandmines development just down the road from Tom Doak’s #10. Here’s a first look at the dramatic site: