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Organizers of the 1999 U.S. Open at Pinehurst counted seven million people living within a hundred-mile radius - stretching well into the urban environs of Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Raleigh that help make up North Carolina's Piedmont region. That's a lot of people, and their passion for golf has spurred the birth of dozens of outstanding golf venues in the central and most populated area of North Carolina.
There are classics like Southern Pines' Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club with its 1921 Donald Ross classic. There are do-overs like Chapel Hill's UNC Finley Golf Course, where Tom Fazio took an existing course in 1999 and built an entirely new layout on the site. There are multi-use urban facilities like Grandover Resort in Greensboro, where there are 36 holes of golf and 45,000 square feet of meeting space. And there are daily fee courses with membership programs like Arnold Palmer's Birkdale Golf Club in Huntersville, 30 minutes north of Charlotte.
Wherever you turn in the Piedmont, there is outstanding golf.
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