PINEHURST, N.C. – The facelift for Pinehurst’s renowned No. 2 course is complete.
The course that has hosted a pair of U.S. Opens and will host two more has reopened following a yearlong restoration led by two-time Masters winner Ben Crenshaw.
The course was designed by Donald Ross, who wanted it to be a “stern test.” Crenshaw said during Monday’s reopening that he and design partner Bill Coore tried to keep that in mind.
The $2.5 million renovation removed all rough, widened fairways by an average of 50 percent and adjusted bunkers based on aerial photographs from the 1940s.
The 104-year-old course will host the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s open in consecutive weeks in 2014.