Pinehurst Resort has announced an opening date for the latest addition to its world-renowned course lineup: Pinehurst No. 11 will welcome play on March 29, 2027. Tee times will be available exclusively to resort guests, and bookings open today.
Like most big happenings at Pinehurst, this one is a big deal in destination golf, with some suitably big names attached. Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw designed No. 11, with their associate Ryan Farrow handling the shaping. Coore and Crenshaw are no strangers to this swath of the Sandhills; they have been visiting since the 1970s and orchestrated the celebrated restoration of Pinehurst No. 2 more than a decade ago.
No. 11, though, sits on very different ground, along the eastern portion of Pinehurst’s 900-acre Sandmines property, about four miles south of the main resort and next door to Tom Doak’s Pinehurst No. 10. Here, the terrain was scarred by decades of sand mining starting in the 1930s. Wild spoil piles and excavated ridges have long since been reclaimed by pines and native vegetation, creating a strange, choppy landscape of jagged ridges and unruly mounds, ornamented with pockets of trees.
The site’s “totally blessed by its character,” Crenshaw said in a prepared statement accompanying the news.
Coore had another phrase for it: “I call it weirdly wonderful,” he said, adding that the otherworldly land forms make the setting feel “mysterious.”
Rather than smooth away those eccentricities, Coore and Crenshaw made them central to the design, routing holes through the trees and over, around and between the rumpled landforms. No. 11 occupies the eastern side of the former mining site, while No. 10 stretches across the west, with the two courses touching at several points.
Like No. 10, which opened in 2024, No. 11 is intended to complement the expansive course menu at a resort known as the Cradle of American Golf. Pinehurst dates to 1895 and has a deep association with Donald Ross, who arrived at the turn of that century as head professional and was later hired to redesign the resort’s first course. He went on to create Pinehurst No. 2, then made Pinehurst his winter home, maintaining his ties to the resort through the Golden Age of golf.
More than a century after Ross laid eyes on Pinehurst, the restoration of No. 2 by Coore and Crenshaw, completed in 2011, ushered in a modern renaissance at the resort, even as it helped spark a broader restoration movement around the country. Pinehurst has continued to build on that legacy, tapping Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner for a 2018 redesign of Pinehurst No. 4 and, more recently, expanding its footprint across the Sandmines property with No. 10 and No. 11.
Along the way, the resort’s already prominent place in the game has grown as well. Designated as the first U.S. Open anchor site, No. 2 hosted the championship in 2024. That was the fourth time it had welcomed the event. It will do so four more times through 2047 (in 2029, it will host the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open in back-to-back-weeks).
Crenshaw competed in the 1999 U.S. Open at Pinehurst, but his connection to the resort has since extended beyond competition into high-profile commissions.
“It’s special any time you get to Pinehurst,” Crenshaw says. “It’s been a great subject of our learning, and some of the greatest golf architecture in the world is right here. The chance to do a golf course here with No. 11 is such an honor.”
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