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Pinehurst No. 11, designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, is scheduled to open in autumn 2027 at the Pinehurst Sandmines site in North Carolina — a 900-acre former sand-mining landscape three miles south of the Village of Pinehurst, adjacent to Tom Doak's acclaimed Pinehurst No. 10.
Pinehurst No. 11, designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, is scheduled to open in autumn 2027 at the Pinehurst Sandmines site in North Carolina — a 900-acre former sand-mining landscape three miles south of the Village of Pinehurst, adjacent to Tom Doak's acclaimed Pinehurst No. 10.
Pinehurst (No. 11)
Coore & Crenshaw envision a routing that winds and twists through jutting ridges and massive mounds formed by decades of sand-mining operations, creating a landscape unlike anything else at Pinehurst Resort. The course will complete the golf offering at Pinehurst Sandmines, a satellite facility that will eventually feature its own clubhouse, restaurant, practice centre, and lodging.
Pinehurst No. 11 will be the resort's first new course in almost three decades when it opens in autumn 2027, built on a 900-acre parcel adjacent to Tom Doak's No. 10 at the Pinehurst Sandmines site.
The land was mined for sand from the 1930s onwards. Those operations left a contoured, scarred landscape subsequently reclaimed by nature — a mixture of man-made spoil piles and native vegetation that Coore has described as extraordinarily interesting for golf course design.
The site was formerly home to The Pit Golf Links, a Dan Maples design that ceased operations in 2010. No part of that original layout carried through into either Doak's No. 10 or Coore & Crenshaw's new routing.
Bill Coore brings both personal and professional history to this commission. In 2011, Coore & Crenshaw completed a restoration of Pinehurst No. 2, returning Donald Ross's masterpiece to its pre-rough sandy character ahead of the 2014 US Open — one of the most significant architectural interventions in the resort's modern history.
Pinehurst No. 11 is currently under construction. The following is based on design intent communicated by Coore & Crenshaw before opening.
Coore describes the terrain as defined not by dramatic elevation change but by quirky ridges, old spoil piles, angular landforms, and the trees that have grown up through them over decades. The routing is designed to wind intimately through this landscape rather than sit atop it.
While Tom Doak's No. 10 commands attention for its elevation changes and expansive vistas, Coore & Crenshaw envision No. 11 as a contrasting experience — more enclosed, more intimate in scale, threading through trees and over old mining piles and across ridges.
Coore has noted that the contours and landforms carry an unexpected resemblance to courses in Ireland and Scotland, despite the site sitting well inland in North Carolina. The spoil piles and excavated ground from the mining era form the raw material for the design's most distinctive features.
Pinehurst No. 11 arrives with significant architectural pedigree. Coore grew up in North Carolina and made youthful pilgrimages to Pinehurst during his formative years, making this commission a homecoming as much as a professional appointment.
Together with Doak's No. 10, No. 11 will give Pinehurst Resort its first purpose-built, standalone golf facility. Full editorial content will be published following the course's autumn 2027 opening.
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