Country Club of North Carolina - Cardinal is an 18-hole private golf course in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Designed by Robert Trent Jones, ASGCA/Willard C. Byrd, ASGCA. It plays 7,215 yards from the Black tees, rated 75.2/140 (checked 2026-08-14).

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holes

par

7,215

yards (tips)

140

slope (black)

The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only

The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer: Robert Trent Jones, ASGCA/Willard C. Byrd, ASGCA reported
access: private
address: 1600 Morganton Road, Pinehurst, NC, 28374
phone: 910-692-6565
website: course site →
elevation: 438 ft derived
opened: 1970
on site: restaurant

35.16799, -79.45081 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes.

203 traced features across 7 layers for Country Club of North Carolina - Cardinal, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

7,215yds

Black tees

609yds

Longest hole

185yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-05-30

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 10 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Black	M	72	7215	75.2	140	3489	3726
Gold	M	72	6756	73.0	138	3269	3487
Blue	M	72	6336	71.1	132	3087	3264
Blue/White	M	72	6023	69.2	127
White	F	72	5756	73.9	135	2838	2918
White	M	72	5756	68.0	123	2838	2918
Green	F	72	5114	70.4	121	2542	2572
Green	M	72	5114	65.4	113	2542	2572
Green/Red	F	72	4524	66.7	115
Red	F	72	4281	65.4	113	2171	2110

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	5	3	4	4	4	3	4	5	4	5	3	4	4	5	4	3	4	72
Black	324	525	192	418	398	481	185	381	585	403	549	201	441	408	609	467	217	431	7,215
Gold	294	514	175	373	380	454	168	362	549	382	511	179	419	378	559	445	204	410	6,756
Blue	282	483	155	360	367	403	156	346	535	361	499	162	405	351	521	403	178	384	6,336
White	248	475	130	300	352	387	139	310	497	333	462	147	344	322	497	348	148	317	5,756
Green	214	434	98	271	289	348	116	303	469	301	421	110	322	304	441	287	112	274	5,114
Red	192	355	92	218	254	303	91	271	395	253	317	100	245	249	373	262	84	227	4,281
Handicap	17	13	5	11	1	7	15	3	9	6	14	16	10	2	18	4	12	8

No per-hole yardages are published for Blue/White and Green/Red, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Country Club of North Carolina - Cardinal hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Book nearby

Country Club of North Carolina - Cardinal states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Pinehurst Course No.1 (1.0 mi, resort) · Pinehurst No. 4 (1.4 mi, resort) · Pinehurst Resort Country Club No 5 (1.5 mi, resort) · Pinehurst Course No.7 (1.6 mi, resort)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

Figure	This course	In North Carolina	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	7,215 yds	27th of 541	=588th of 12,025	6th of 33 in the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro area · =223rd of 2,954 private courses · =587th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 140	=58th of 356	=932nd of 8,710	7th of 31 in the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro area · =418th of 2,300 private courses · =912th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 75.2	=15th of 333	=404th of 7,615	3rd of 29 in the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro area · =178th of 2,143 private courses · =401st of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,934 yds between tees	23rd of 528	368th of 11,523	4th of 32 in the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro area · 112th of 2,885 private courses · 362nd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1970	=152nd of 395	=4,455th of 9,368	15th of 34 in the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro area · =1,404th of 2,418 private courses · =3,157th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	438 ft derived	=310th of 554	=7,537th of 12,437	21st of 35 in the Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metro area · =1,562nd of 3,026 private courses · =5,365th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 8 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 10 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
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Course details, partly built.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

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Sources

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