No place in America concentrates great public golf like the North Carolina Sandhills. Pinehurst alone supplies six of these ten — Donald Ross's revered No. 2, host to more championships than any course in the country; Tom Doak's No. 10, carved through the old Sandmines south of the village; Gil Hanse's reimagined No. 4; and the Fazio, Rees Jones, and Nicklaus layouts at No. 8, No. 7, and No. 9. Four miles east in Southern Pines stand the Ross gems Pine Needles and Mid Pines, alongside his restored Southern Pines Golf Club. And near Sanford, Mike Strantz's Tobacco Road erupts from an old sand quarry — golf's wildest ride. Ten ways into the Home of American Golf.