Rankings:
The Takeaway: Grade B-
Quick Facts
Designer: Tom Fazio in 1996
Cost: Private
Phone Number: (910) 693-1996
Course Website: Official Website - Visit Forest Creek Golf Club (South)'s official website by clicking on the link provided.
Directions: Get here! - 200 Meyer Farm Drive, Pinehurst, North Carolina 28374 – UNITED STATES
Photos: See additional photos of Forest Creek Golf Club (South)
What to Expect: Forest Creek is a 36 hole residential development complex that features Tom Fazio’s work. The courses were installed six years apart, one named North and the other South. The newer North course has enjoyed more accolades and the Gurus concur with the North’s superiority. Conditioning at Forest Creek is top notch with the North track displaying exceptional turf conditions and beautifully rolling greens. Gently moving ground provides ideal golf course terrain while the lake on the back nine of the North course provides a beautiful feature in which three holes play around. Trees line all the fairways and provide a comfortable seclusion hole to hole. The South course provides some water features near the clubhouse that come into play on the downhill finishing holes of each nine. The South course also boasts a “hog hole” where bets can be settled as players tee it up on a par three over a large pond. All in all, Forest Creek is a first class facility that features solid hole after solid hole all day long. The North course is rather underrated and makes an argument as the elite course of the Sandhills and one of North Carolina’s finest.
By the Numbers
Tees | Par | Yardage | Rating | Slope |
---|---|---|---|---|
Championship | 72 | 7095 | 73.7 | 139 |
Long | 72 | 6603 | 71.1 | 133 |
Intermediate | 72 | 6292 | 70.0 | 130 |
Medium | 72 | 5909 | 68.8 | 121 |
Short (Women) | 72 | 5047 | 69.8 | 120 |
Individual Hole Analysis
Signature Hole: 18th Hole – 458 Yard Par 4
Best Par 3: 17th Hole – 195 Yards
Best Par 4: 16th Hole – 419 Yards
Best Par 5: 14th Hole – 525 Yards
Birdie Time: 8th Hole – 352 Yard Par 4
Bogey Beware: 9th Hole – 429 Yard Par 4