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A Best Kept Secret…
Filed Under (General Interest, Pinehurst, The Area) by admin on 14-09-2010
It shouldn’t be surprising, but it seems that people don’t know about Woodlake when they come to Pinehurst for golf and decide to stay. The area has been renowned as a golf mecca attracting world class golf to the sand and the pines for over a hundred years. But nowhere else do you find a third element, water in the form of a 1200 acre lake, enhancing the golf experience. Both courses at Woodlake Country Club, Maples and Palmer designs, weave the links and water together around the shoreline to create an unmatched setting. Twenty minutes closer to Raleigh and Fayetteville, it is easy to slip by the quiet lake on the way to the resort villages of Southern Pines and Pinehurst.
In particularly lovely touch, the Clubhouse at Woodlake is the historic Oates House built in 1700 that once occupied a prominent downtown setting in nearby Fayetteville. The historic restoration welcomes members as the hub of the gated community offering tennis, swimming and dining.
Enjoy the sunset from the dock of 720 Azalea Drive, a waterfront home at Woodlake that is modeled after the Clubhouse at Augusta National. Now you can’t say that no one told you about a best kept secret.
There is a fascinating story in this week’s New Yorker about getting “rid of the lush and plush” on golf courses and going “back to the lyrical imprecision of playing over natural country.” While John McPhee is writing about the British Open, his points relate directly to the effort to get back to the original intent on Pinehurst No. 2. The golf world will get a good look at the results of Ben Crenshaw’s leadership in this trend at the 2014 men’s and women’s Opens to be played in 
