Mid Pines Golf Club

Set amid the longleaf pines and sandy soils of Southern Pines, Mid Pines Golf Club anchors a compact resort that includes the 1921 Mid Pines Inn, dining spaces overlooking the 18th green, and practice facilities suited to both members and guests. The club operates today as a semi-private/resort property: members share access with visiting golfers staying on site or booking tee times, and play alternates easily with sister venues across Midland Road at Pine Needles and nearby Southern Pines Golf Club. On the ground, Mid Pines presents a walking-friendly routing that moves in and out of a broad valley and up surrounding ridgelines, so lies are frequently canted and approach shots are often played from side-hill stances. After a 2013 restoration by architect Kyle Franz, the course emphasizes firm surfaces, revived sandscape and wiregrass in the rough margins, and restored green and fairway perimeters that recapture original hole locations and angles. The Inn’s Georgian-style façade frames the downhill home hole, and the presentation—bermudagrass throughout with ultradwarf bermudagrass on the greens—aims for year-round firmness in the Sandhills’ climate. While the feel is that of a classic private club, Mid Pines hosts USGA qualifiers and regional championships, and its low-profile features, smallish green pads, and naturalized bunkering ask for thoughtful placement rather than brute power.