One of more than a dozen private clubs owned and operated by McConnell Golf in the Carolinas and Tennessee, Porters Neck Country Club has a Tom Fazio design as the golfing component of its multi-sport recreational facility.
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One of more than a dozen private clubs owned and operated by McConnell Golf in the Carolinas and Tennessee, Porters Neck Country Club has a Tom Fazio design as the golfing component of its multi-sport recreational facility.

Porters Neck
The Porters Neck Country Club serves as the golf haven of choice for residents of the community with the same name. The course winds its way around an expansive property north of the city of Wilmington, only slightly inland from the Topsail Sound.
Although the course is surrounded by real estate, Tom Fazio worked to keep the course at Porters Neck as insulated as possible. In fact, there are few instances where you can even see golfers on another hole, due to the shield of trees that line every fairway (perhaps Fazio took inspiration from Pine Valley, where he is famously the consulting architect).
Porters Neck is hardly Fazio’s most extreme challenge in North Carolina, however its far tees, at 7,100 yards, offer ample challenge for the scratch player. The aforementioned trees also enforce accuracy, suggesting to many that driver may not be the best option from the tee.
Although water is hardly the most prominent hazard at Porters Neck, it comes into play quite dramatically at No. 9, where the 412-yard par four’s green wraps around a pond near to the clubhouse.
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