The Resort Course at Talamore
A Case of Beauty and "The Beasts".
Opened in 1991, Talamore Resort Course is a hub for travelling golfers. The challenging Rees Jones design combined with the beautiful villas make this facility a home base for many coming to enjoy a golf package in the Sandhills/Pinehurst area. Routed through thick woods with sharp elevation changes and nasty bunkers, the course requires a variety of shots and creativity to make your way safely around the layout. Interrupted fairways are present on many of the holes, so careful club selection is a must. One of the original features at the club was a llama caddie program. Since retired, but still on-site at Hole 14, these creatures lead us to uncover “The Beast’s of Talamore.”
Course Stats: Talamore Resort Course
Par 71 | Yardage |
Rating/Slope-M |
Rating/Slope-F |
Gold | 6840 |
73.2 / 140 |
- |
Blue | 6534 |
71.2 / 131 |
- |
White | 6007 |
68.7 / 128 |
75.0 / 141 |
Green | 5470 |
66.3 / 118 |
71.9 / 131 |
Red | 4997 |
64.5 / 109 |
69.2 / 123 |
Course Stats: Mid South: [View Course Review]
Par 71/72, 4773 - 7003 yards, rated 63.5 -73.8, slope rating 111 -144
Access: through golf packages at Talamore Golf Resort
Location:
Pinehurst, North Carolina
Editor's Shot Makers Picks:
Featured Holes |
Hole 1 |
Hole 15 |
Hole 16 |
Hole 18 |
Par |
Par 5 |
Par 3 |
Par 4 |
Par 4 |
Gold | 623 |
238 |
444 |
426 |
Blue | 609 |
221 |
428 |
400 |
White | 564 |
191 |
398 |
368 |
Green | 437 |
156 |
370 |
362 |
Red | 432 |
151 |
362 |
268 |
HCP-Men |
4 |
13 |
1 |
3 |
HCP-Women |
4 |
15 |
1 |
9 |
Feature Holes Descriptions:
Many courses open with the customary “handshake” hole to welcome you and get you going. Not here! Hole one is a beastly dogleg right Par 5 that forces you to carefully consider the interrupted fairway in the landing area and then climbs past a series of bunkers guarding the right side of the fairway. The Par 3 15th is beastly long with a green home to a series of ridges. Rated as the most difficult hole on the course number 16 features mounds right and a fall-off left and anything long is dead and anything short and off target will find the massive guarding bunkers. The final tee shot must carry a large pond on this dogleg left finish. A bail out right will leave you with a very lengthy approach to a green protected by a huge bunker front left.
Contact:
Talamore Golf Resort,
48 Talamore Drive
Southern Pines, NC 28387
(800) 552-6292
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