THE CAROLINA HOTEL

Donald Ross's 1901 masterpiece demands precision over power, with crowned greens that shed wayward approaches and strategic bunkering that punishes the impatient. The sandy soil drains beautifully year-round, while the rolling terrain and mature longleaf pines frame heroic risk-reward decisions on nearly every hole. This is old-school architecture at its finest—where course management trumps distance and every putt breaks toward the village.