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    Woodlake Country Club: Maples Course

    Vass, NC Public

    Overview

    The courses at Pinehurst Resort and in Southern Pines garner most of the hype in the North Carolina Sandhills, but the soils, climate and pines add a unique character to all the golf here. One newly polished, under-the-radar example is the Maples Course at Woodlake Country Club, east of Pinehurst. Pre-pandemic economic trouble forced the club to shutter the course for several years, but in 2021 it embarked on a multi-year revival program of its 1971 Ellis Maples/Ed Seay design (Seay would shortly after go on to become Arnold Palmer’s lead architect). Designer Kris Spence, a Donald Ross specialist, oversaw the reconstruction of the course, slowly nurturing it back to life, honoring the original design while updating the infrastructure and making allowances for modern equipment and agronomical advances. Reopened in 2023, the course plays along and over a chain of lakes and wetlands with expanded fairways and playing corridors and a new 18th hole that runs the opposite direction of the old.

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    Holes 18
    Facility Type Public
    Designer Ellis Maples, ASGCA/Kris Spence (2023)

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