{"id":742,"date":"2019-11-24T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2023-10-18T09:53:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T13:53:17","slug":"pinehurst-resort-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/24\/pinehurst-resort-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinehurst Resort (#2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My last day in Pinehurst was spent playing the world famous #2. I can now understand why people have said Donald Ross is a sadistic architect. There are so many places where you can hit what you think is a good shot\/putt, only to have the ball roll 25 yards in the wrong direction. This happened to me on one hole – I hit a putt that should have rolled maybe 6 inches past the hole but instead it rolled all the way off the green and into a bunker. Architecturally, it is a magnificent course, but I’m not sure it is ideal for the average golfer like me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a shot looking down the 1st hole from the tee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ok, so how in the heck am I supposed to play this one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View from the 18th<\/sup> tee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Approach to the 18th green with the clubhouse in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And of course, the famous Payne Stewart statue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Final thoughts: I realize that #2 is the most famous of the courses at Pinehurst, but I don’t think it is suited for the average golfer. It is too penal in places and the greens are incredibly difficult. I am certainly glad I had the opportunity to play it, but not sure I will be in a hurry to play it again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My last day in Pinehurst was spent playing the world famous #2. I can now understand why people have said Donald Ross is a sadistic architect. There are so many places where you can hit what you think is a good shot\/putt, only to have the ball roll 25 yards in the wrong direction. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-golf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wallydennis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}