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Tobacco Road Golf Club442 Tobacco Rd
Sanford, NC 27330
Phone: (919)775-1940Fax: (919)775-1985
This course is not a typical links-style, but it leans more to a links feel than a traditional style course. The fairways are generous, some as wide as ninety-nine yards, and the greens are also ample. The quote "Its bark is more intimidating than its bite" aptly describes this course that contains some blind and restricted tee shots. A staff consensus is that the course does not have a signature hole, rather it is in essence a "signature golf course."
| Holes: 18 | Greens: Bent Grass | Fairways: Bermuda Grass |
| Tee Information: | | Tee | Par | Yardage | Course Rating | Slope | | Ripper | 71 | 6554 | 73.2 | 150 | | Disc | 71 | 6304 | 70.8 | 142 | | Plow | 71 | 5886 | 70.4 | 128 | | Cultivator | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Greens Fees: | $50-$79 | | Course Type: | public | | Dress Code: | No denim, collared shirt required | | Season: | Open all year | | Guest Policy: | |
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unforgettable, Mar 26, 2006
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reviewer: Dean
from greensboro, nc
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| great course that is visually exciting. will not forget this course. can't wait to go back. greens r huge and lots of fun. |
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Bring your A game, Aug 24, 2005
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reviewer: Steve Bouxman
from Fort Worth Tx.
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| This course has you thinking all the time. You must be able to hit the ball to an area to set up your next shot. The elevation on the greens can at times make the ball come back to your feet. I have now played the course 6 times and everytime I fall deeper in love with the course. There is a treat for you at the 16th hole. A large wooden bucket with iced apples are yours for the taking, perfect after the course has you thinking for the first 15 holes. Must play at less twice to start to see the pure genius of golf architect. |
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A golf course cured to perfection, Jun 15, 2004
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reviewer: Oscar C
from Encino, CA
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| This is one of the best courses that I have played and the course has a special beauty, style and texture that make for a great golf experience. I have played two other Maverick Trail courses in Virginia, Royal New Kent and Stonehouse, and Tobacco Road does them one better.
Having played the other two courses, I was well prepared for the forced carries, blind shots to fairways or greens, hidden bunkers and fast greens that are usual to Mike Strantz courses. Tobacco Road takes those characteristics and adds more generous waste areas to the mix as you meander through the grounds of an old quarry site.
The course is more than fairways and greens. Tobacco Road is high mounds of gnarly grass, seas of sand and stone, and rolling fairways and sloped greens sometimes just large enough to catch the well-driven golf ball.
The first hole of Tobacco Road could be more than enough for timid golfers to endure. The golfer must hit two accurate shots through or over mounds just to be able to make a par five on the hole. The second and third holes are relaxing par four and three, respectively, as long as the tee shots find the fairway and the green without an intervening misdirection to a waste area. The fourth hole is a par five that is reachable for an eagle putt as it bends the left. The score here will provide the player with a model how to play the eleventh hole, which is another par five, but this one bends to the right. Also, this par five has an elevated tee area, low landing area and elevated green. The thirteenth hole is a delicate par five that requires accurate placement of the approach shot to the green as the green is surrounded like a castle by the grassy mounds which would resemble a fortress if hit into them.
While there is a definite beauty to number 14, a par three that has watered bordering on the right, the par three 17 is a stellar hole that doesn't measure over 150 yards, has an elevated tee box and a crooked finger green that stretches beside a vast waste area.
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