Marketing and PR flacks are truly a unique and special breed. They can take the ordinary and have you convinced it is extraordinary.

Pinehurst No. 2 in Pinehurst, North Carolina, is a very average golf course with few memorable holes. It is indeed a splendid golf course worthy of many accolades, but not worth of its $300-plus price tag.

Pinehurst No. 2, my friends, is more bun than burger.

Chris Wallace of GolfCarolina.com hits the nail on the head when he wrote, “Pinehust
Number 2 doesn’t warrant the hype”.

Pinehurst Resort Management has accomplished a marketing ploy that is amazing: These days even criticizing Pinehurst Number 2 is blasphemous on its own.

People get nostalgic about courses like this based on Payne Stewart and the U.S. Open. They get nostalgic about this course just like baseball fans get teary-eyed about Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium. Any baseball fan can tell you there are far better parks than those two. It is the history and traditions of those parks that are special - not their actual architectures.

The Pinehurst and Sandhills area offers fantastic golf that is a great value. Pinehurst Number 2 is not a good value for the dollar. Pinehurst No. 2 is a great “belt notcher” course, but nothing more.

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