The 18-hole "Pine Needles" course at the Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club facility in Southern Pines, North Carolina features 7,015 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 71. The course rating is 72.2 and it has a slope rating of 131 on Bermuda grass. Designed by Donald J. Ross, ASGCA/(R) John Fought, ASGCA, the Pine Needles golf course opened in 2004.