The 18-hole "Cardinal" course at the The Country Club of North Carolina facility in Pinehurst, North Carolina features 7,000 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 74.2 and it has a slope rating of 138 on Bermuda grass. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, ASGCA/Willard C. Byrd, ASGCA, the Cardinal golf course opened in 1970.