Excellent food. A comfortable room. Courteous and efficient service.
A variety of rooms and packages are available at Pine Needles. The Donald Ross Package is one of the resortıs most popular and is geared toward the serious golfer. The package includes 36 holes of golf per day. Guests can play Pine Needles and its sister resort located directly across Midland Road, Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club. Mid Pines, like Pine Needles, was built in the 1920s and features another outstanding Donald Ross course. The package includes three meals daily and guaranteed morning and afternoon tee times. Bag handling, club storage and transportation between both facilities is included as well. As time goes on, Donald Rossıs name will become more and more famous, says Pat McGowan, former PGA touring pro and instructor at Pine Needles. People are recognizing the history, tradition and subtleties of his courses, how he used the lay of the land with a team of mules to design courses that were great then and still are today. As enjoyable as each golf course is, if someone comes in for three or four or five days, they like some variety. This gives them two great courses under the same package. Theyıre fun for the high handicapper and you go to the tips and give the scratch player all he wants. Other packages include a Bed & Breakfast package and Full American Plan. Meeting and banquet facilities are available as well. Nearly all guest rooms at Pine Needles have undergone some degree of renovation over the last three years. Complimentary newspapers and in-room coffee service are among the small touches that make your visit so satisfying. The dining room is presided over by Chris Currier, an award-winning chef who's done with the food and beverage service what Director of Golf Chip King has done with the golf product combined the best of the old and new. If you're a meat-and-potatoes man, the menu will address your tastes at all times. If you'd like a filling lunch between rounds of golf, don't miss the resort's signature fried chicken. But if youıre fond of lighter fare, including fresh seafood, pasta creations and fresh vegetables, you'll be delighted as well. Another favorite among guests is the omelette/waffle/pancake station set up every morning. Pecans, chocolate chips, blueberries, butter and strawberry butter are available to whip into waffles and pancakes, and the chef will custom prepare an omelette from among a dozen items. There's also a comfortable lounge overlooking the first and 18th holes at Pine Needles for post-round libations, and you'll aways find a ball game, golf tournament or golf history tape playing on the wide-screen television in the lodge's plush lobby. There's a swimming pool and grass tennis courts as well. The total of this quality and wide array of amenities is why the nation's two largest golf publications, Golf Digest and GOLF Magazine, have bestowed impressive honors on Pine Needles in the last year. Golf Digest awarded Pine Needles with its Four-Star rating in the 1996-97 Places to Play guide, defining four stars as, Outstanding. Plan your next vacation around it. GOLF presented the resort with its coveted Silver Medal award in its 1996 rankings. The magazine's reviewer noted that Pine Needles reeks of golf the way it ought to be.
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