This is truly your first look.
When Bill Coore first described the design of Pinehurst No. 11, he marveled at how different the landscape in front of him was than the finished Tom Doak design of Pinehurst No. 10.
“It’s this choppy, ridgey ground,” says Coore. “It’s not as much elevation change, but it’s so quirky with the ridges and the piles and the trees and the angles. This is going to be so intimate in scale. You’re winding your way through trees and over old piles and across ridges. We’re far, far from the sea, but we have these contours and features and landforms that remind you of spots in Ireland or Scotland. And yet here it is, in Pinehurst.”
What words Bill Coore used about this newest of Coore & Crenshaw designs can now be seen. The video above gives us all a very first look at how this golf course will be carved into Pinehurst Sandmines, and, already, how much different it will be from No. 10.
Enjoy this first vision. There will be much more to come.
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