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Golf
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GOLF
Golf is one of North Carolina's main attractions, and the Wilmington area is home to numerous world-class golf courses and golf communities. Whether you're in the market for golf real estate or just want to have access to great golf all the time, Wilmington can meet your golfing needs. Thanks to its picturesque scenery, beautifully temperate weather, accessibility, relatively low cost of living, and courses designed by the likes of George Cobb, Pete Dye, Tom Fazio, Jack Nicklaus, and Donald Ross, to name a few, Wilmington has even been ranked in the top ten of cities for golf in the entire United States
Bald Head Island Golf Club
Here golf is more than a game. It's also a sightseeing excursion.
Enhancing nature's abundance, the Bald Head Island Club's 18-hole championship golf course winds its way over dunes, around lagoons, along the ocean, and through a maritime forest. Designer George Cobb, who for 20 years was the lead consultant at Augusta National, left much of the terrain the way he found it, creating a course of almost unparalleled wild beauty. Many of the holes are so undisturbed; in fact, they are bordered by the still lively natural habitats of herons, egrets, ibises, foxes and alligators. This George Cobb designed course is only reachable by ferry. Round trip ferry ride is $15.00, and the car parking fee is $5.00. It will be a golfing trip you will not forget!
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Beau Rivage Plantation
This affordable 18-hole championship course was designed by Eddie Lewis in 1988 features naturally contoured Bermuda fairways and elevations of 70 feet.. Experience the signature hole #4. It is a par 3 over a large pond. It plays from 90 yards from the forward tees to a distance of over 200 yards from the back tees with 2 tee boxes in between. Relax southern style in the comfort of one of the spacious one bedroom villas or take a drive to Carolina Beach which is only minutes away.
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Belvedere Plantation
Located in the town of Hampstead and built in 1970, this traditional course was designed by Russell Burney. The small greens are fast, and the fairways are lined with tall pine trees. Water hazards come into play on eleven holes. The greens are bent with 419 Bermuda fairways and both No. 3 and No. 8 are considered the course's signature holes
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The Cape Golf & Racquet Club
A Coastal Classic, The Cape as its commonly known by the locals is known for one of the best layouts on the Carolina coast with champions Bermuda greens. The challenge of the course design is complemented by the breathtaking natural beauty. It meanders thru scenic woods and natural marshlands which are trademarks for this beautiful coastal area. Sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and Cape Fear River this ecologically diverse area provides not only a golfers dream but a photographers delight. Located only minutes from Historic Wilmington.
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The Cape Fear Country Club
This hilly coastal course challenges players with several inland lakes that come into play on many holes. The signature hole is #15, a 187-yard, par 3, requiring a tee shot over a lake. Golf architect and restoration specialist, Kris Spence, has been selected by the members of Cape Fear Country Club to restore the club's historic Donald Ross-designed course which started in November and is due to be finished summer 2006.
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Carolina National at Winding River
The first Fred Couples-designed course in the Carolinas. Carolina National is located at Winding River Plantation, halfway between Wilmington and Myrtle Beach. Carved from pristine Carolina landscape using the scenic Lockwood Folly River as its backdrop this 27-hole facility features three nines named Egret, Heron, and Ibis after the native water birds that make the course their home. An Audubon certified tract.
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Castle Bay
This is a true Scottish links style golf course. Acres of rolling hills stretch in all directions. You'll wind your way past scenic vistas, cross dozens of massive wooden arch-trestles and enjoy a wide panorama of wild birds. Beauty abounds here, but this course will demand your respect. Lakes, wetlands, sandtraps and a variety of bunkers will test you at each hole. Located in Hampstead.
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Echo Farms Golf Club
The Club Facilities includes an eighteen-hole championship golf course designed by Gene Hamm and opened in 1974. A later re-design in 1998 by re-nowned British architect Ian Scott Taylor, changed the course giving it a more Scottish-links feel. The course offers challenge and enjoyment for all levels of golfing skill with four sets of tee placements providing play from approximately 5000 to a little over 7000 yards. The newly renovated greens to Tiff-Eagle Bermuda grass, are among the finest in the Cape Fear region. The course lies adjacent to the Cape Fear River and has been designed to utilize the natural features of the coastal terrain. Echo is set on an old dairy farm amid a residential community and a large nature preserve.
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Landfall Country Club
With over 2200 acres bordering the Intercoastal waterway and 1700 homes, this private gated golf and tennis community is one of the most popular golf courses around which to own homes. Landfall has two championship golf courses designed by golf legends Pete Dye and Jack Nicklaus. Each has its own clubhouse and pro shop with extensive practice areas that include a driving range, sand bunkers, and putting and chipping greens. The Dye Course has hosted the NCAA Women's Collegiate Championship, and each fall the 27-hole Nicklaus Course hosts the Landfall Tradition, a three day tournament featuring 24 of the nation's top men's and women's college teams. Besides golf Landfall also offers a tennis/sports complex which was designed by tennis legend Cliff Drysdale. It contains 14 multi-surfaced tennis courts, an Olympic size swimming pool, and a state-of-the-art fitness complex.
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Magnolia Greens
Designed by Tom Jackson and located just south of Wilmington is a popular stop for golfers on their way to and from Myrtle Beach. With 27-holes, a varied selection of golf villas, and a location just 10 minutes from downtown historic Wilmington, Magnolia Greens easily shines brightly as one of the area's premier golfing destinations. Host course for the 1998 & 1999 PGA Tour first stage Q-School.
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North Shore Country Club
One of two courses located on the city's northern part, but the trip to North Shore is always a favorite year after year for our golfers who travel to the Wilmington area. Located 35 minutes north of Wilmington, and only 2 minutes from Topsail Island Beach. The bentgrass greens and 419 Bermuda fairways provide ideal playing conditions year round. North Shore features a plenty of mounding, and an abundance of water and wind off the nearby ocean.
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Oak Island Country Club
Built in 1962 by world-renowned architect George Cobb, Oak Island Golf Club meanders through Yaupon Beach and Caswell Beach. This Oceanside course offers golfers many of Mother Nature's most beautiful amenities; waterfowl, ocean dwelling birds, alligators, and all kinds of maritime plants and trees. The course, which features Bermuda grass greens, tees, fairways and roughs, 53 bunkers and water in play on nine different holes presents a true golfing test to the most avid golfers. Wind, our golfers most formidable challenge is almost always present, as evident by the wind shaped Live Oaks and Yaupon trees throughout the course Oak Island features two of the best finishing holes on the coast.
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Olde Point Golf Club
Without doubt one of the prettiest courses anywhere. The grounds are immaculate, the landscaping superb. You are surrounded by tall and stately old pines and massive, drooping, moss covered live oaks and dogwoods, crape myrtles and native plants.
The new 419 Bermuda fairways complement the large bentgrass greens. Olde Point requires well-placed shots from the championship tees to a more relaxed round from the other 3 tees.
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Porters Neck Plantation
Porters Neck Plantation and Country Club's golf course has been named the "#1 Coastal Course" in North Carolina by Golf Digest magazine, and has been included in their exclusive list of "Top 500 Courses". Designed by world-renowned golf architect Tom Fazio, the course meanders through gently rolling terrain and offers both the amateur and professional golfer an enjoyable challenge. A true championship course, Porters Neck hosted the 1995 North Carolina Open. Home course for LPGA Touring Pro Cathy Johnston Forbes. Hosted Round 1 of the 1997 PGA Tour Q-School.
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River Landing Golf Club
River landing is a private 1,400 acre gated golf community near Wilmington, N.C. which boasts championship golf course designed by nationally acclaimed architect Clyde Johnston of Hilton Head, S.C. The stunning 36-hole layout challenges the experienced golfer, while its clever yet classic design and five sets of tees make the course enjoyable for all players, scratch to novice. Bent grass greens and Bermuda grass fairways and roughs offer superb play. The beautiful Northeast Cape Fear River creates a spectacular backdrop for the golf course.
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Topsail Greens Golf Club
Designed by Russell Breeden, Topsail Greens is what you might expect from an oceanside layout: tight and windy. From the island green on hole No. 8 to the tough par five that follows. Known for its elevated greens and many water holes including a signature #17 island green, Topsail Greens offers a challenge to golfers of all abilities.
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