"Moore On The Menu" Restaurant Week:

From August 30th - September 5, 2010, "Moore on the Menu" invites the public to try the diverse culinary options in the Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen area at a special price. Local independently-owned restaurants (including Ashten's) will offer a four-course Prix Fixe dinner for $35 per person. Several will also offer a three-course Prix Fixe lunch to include an appetizer OR dessert, entree and beverage. Reservations are required. Please call each restaurant for more information. For a list of participating restuarants click here.

Menues:

Chef Warren's

Elliott's On Linden

Italian Table

Magnolia Inn

Ashten's Wins Best Dish in North Carolina Competition:

An anonymous panel of judges spent the summer traveling to 20 restaurants to find the best fine dining and casual dining dishes that use North Carolina products. Ashten's in Southern Pines was the winner in the Fine Dining category.

Ashten's winning dishes — Asparagus strudel, NC mountain trout salad, Council Farms egg drop soup, braised rainbow farm lamb shoulder, and pecan polenta cake with strawberries.

The Best Dish in NC competition is an annual statewide contest that recognizes and rewards the efforts of restaurants and chefs who use North Carolina products regularly in their menus.

Golf Magazine Releases 2010 List of Top 100 Courses You Can Play:

In 2010 only five golf courses in North Carolina made the list (released August 4) of the Best Public Golf Courses in America, and four of them are located right here in the Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen Area. To see the complete list click here.

  7. Pinehurst No. 2, Pinehurst
52. Pine Needles, Southern Pines
97. Tobacco Road, Sanford (NEW in 2010!)
100. Pinehurst No. 8, Pinehurst

As part of Golf Magazine's 2010 Top 100 Courses You Can Play package, GOLF.com compiled the best golf courses you can play in every state. In North Carolina 20 courses in all were listed, and seven of them are found right here in The Home of American Golf —
1. Pinehurst No.2

2. Pine Needles

4. Tobacco Road

5. Pinehurst No.8

6. Pinehurst No.4

12. Mid Pines

19. Pinehurst No.7

Pinehurst/Southern Pines/Aberdeen NC Golf Packages:

It's not too late to take advantage of our Summer Specials - most run until September and offer a variety of affordable golf packages and weekend getaways. Or are you planning your golf getaway for after the kids are in school? Then check out our Fall Golf Packages beginning in September!

Pinehurst's 2010 Food and Wine Festival:

Have Your Cake And Eat It Too: Chef of Food Network's "Cupcake Wars" featured at Pinehurst Food and Wine Festival Sept. 2-6, 2010.

Florian Bellanger wears a stern face as judge of Food Network's current season of "Cupcake Wars." Over Labor Day Weekend, guests of Pinehurst's 22nd annual Food and Wine Festival will have a chance to judge him. Bellanger is one of a dozen featured chefs who promise to delight a crowd of nearly 1,000 attendees with the 2010 theme: "Old World vs. New, Modern vs. Traditional." Read more...

In The News:

Check out Joe Zuckerman's article "The Glories of Pinehurst". In his words, "...an avid player can swing to their heart's content (and to their spine's detriment) and not once trod the grounds of the esteemed Resort itself. Here are a half-dozen of the more noteworthy courses to be found in and around Pinehurst, but not at the Pinehurst Resort." http://bit.ly/9m8SZA

Nice article on great golf getaways in Atlanta Journal-Constitution, including Sandhills, NC. That's us! Visit http://www.ajc.com/travel/southeast/southeastern-roundup-3-golf-524441.html for the complete story.

Pinehurst, NC ranked in "Top 20 Best Golf Cities" by Links magazine. http://bit.ly/adtcBX

Village of Pinehurst: An Historic Walking Tour:

Tufts Archives and the Convention & Visitor Bureau - Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen Area have teamed up to develop and publish "Village of Pinehurst: An Historic Walking Tour". This compact book describes four easily accessible walking tours of the Village of Pinehurst as well as a slightly longer driving tour. This book is available at the Visitors Center on US Hwy 15-501 for $18. For more information, please use the link below:
Walking Tour Book Information

Golfweek Releases 2010 "Best" Lists:

Golfweek's 2010 list of Best Public Access Golf Courses in North Carolina includes seven courses in the Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen area. Only ten courses in all were listed for North Carolina. To qualify a golf course must make itself available to the general public.

1. Pinehurst No. 2

2. Pine Needles

4. Tobacco Road Golf Club

6. Mid Pines

7. Pinehurst No. 4

8. Pinehurst No. 8

10. Southern Pines Golf Club (Elks)

The 2010 list of Best Classic Courses (before 1960) includes:

15. Pinehurst No. 2

69. Pine Needles

Only one golf course in our area made the 2010 list of Best Modern Courses (1960-Present) — Forest Creek Golf Club (North).

Click here for more information on Golfweek's Best.

Pinehurst No. 2 Again Ranks as NC's Best Golf Course:

The North Carolina Golf Panel released their 2010 list of Top 100 Golf Courses in North Carolina in the March 2010 issue of BUSINESS NORTH CAROLINA. Among the Top 10 in the state were five Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen area golf courses:

1. Pinehurst No. 2
5. Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club
6. Country Club of North Carolina (Dogwood)
8. Forest Creek Golf Club (South)
10. Pinehurst No. 4

Hidden Gems, Sandhills Region:
1. Southern Pines Golf Club (Elks)
2. Mid South Club
4. Legacy Golf Links
5. Talamore Golf Resort

In all, 20 golf courses in our area were ranked in NC's Top 100 for 2010. For the complete list please visit Top 100 NC Golf Courses.

Golf Magazine Releases List of 2010 Premier Resorts:

In the 11th edition of Golf Magazine's Premier Resorts ranking, the Platinum category showcases the properties at the pinnacle, followed closely by the Gold and Silver medalists. Two golf resorts in our area made the list.

  •  Platinum - Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, NC

  •  Silver - Pine Needles, Southern Pines, NC

In the "Best in Your Area" rankings for the Southeast, Pinehurst Resort was #2 and Pine Needles was #5. Congratulations!

Golf Digest's 2009 Ranking of 75 Best Golf Resorts in North America:

The 2009 list of Best Golf Resorts was created with the help of Golf Digest's 900-plus course-rating panelists. Pinehurst Resort and Pine Needles-Mid Pines are both ranked among the best resorts. Click here for the complete list.

  10. Pinehurst Resort

  53. Pine Needles-Mid Pines

2010 Golf World Readers' Choice Awards:

Besides being a "populist" list, the Readers' Choice Awards are more than just another ranking of courses - they are an assessment of the overall golf experience. More than 46,000 votes and 600,000 criteria evaluations led to Golf World's 2010 Readers' Choice selections.

Top 50 Public Courses - #4 Tobacco Road

Top 50 Resort Courses - #8 Pinehurst Resort and #30 Pine Needles

Tobacco Road also ranked in the Top 10 in the following criteria:

Quality of course, Course condition, Reputation/prestige, Speed of play, Pro shop, Service, and Overall value.

To see the complete list of 2010 Readers' Choice Awards, click here.

USGA Announces U.S. Women’s and Men’s Opens Both at Pinehurst in 2014:

In an unprecedented move, the United States Golf Association announced that in 2014 the U.S. Women’s Open, for the first time, will immediately follow the U.S. Open Championship on the same venue, Pinehurst No. 2, from June 12 to June 22. The venerable Donald Ross course will become the only golf venue to host the Men’s and Women’s Opens, the U.S. Amateurs (Men’s and Women’s), and the U.S. Senior Open Championships.

For more information view the following links:

Golf.com

Golfweek.com

USGA

Upcoming Major Events

For more information on these and other events, please visit our Events Calendar.

August 30 - September 5
"MOORE ON THE MENU" RESTAURANT WEEK. Come and enjoy some of North Carolina's best local independently-owned restaurants. Select restaurants in the Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aberdeen Area will be offering prix fixe menus starting at $35 per person for a four-course dinner. Reservations are required. For a list of participating restaurants click here.

September 2-6
22nd ANNUAL LABOR DAY WINE FESTIVAL. A celebration of fine wine, gourmet food and pure southern hospitality. Pinehurst Resort, Village of Pinehurst. Please call Pinehurst's Wine Fest hotline at (910)235-8708 for schedule of activities and details, or visit www.pinehurst.com.