Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club
Southern Pines, Moore County, North Carolina · Pinehurst / Southern Pines / Aberdeen golf market
- Access
- mixed
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Donald Ross
- Gated
- No
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Pine Needles is one of the two or three most nationally significant golf addresses in the Sandhills outside the Pinehurst Resort brand itself. Peggy Kirk Bell and her husband bought the Donald Ross course in 1954 and Bell ran it for over 60 years until her death in 2016; the club has hosted four U.S. Women's Opens.
Golf & Course
A Donald Ross design that has hosted the U.S. Women's Open in 1996 (Annika Sorenstam), 2001 (Karrie Webb), 2007 (Cristie Kerr) and 2022. Now operated under the same ownership group as Mid Pines and Southern Pines Golf Club (branded in some 2026 sources as "Ross Resorts"), led by Kelly Miller, Peggy Kirk Bell's son-in-law.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Resort-guest lodging/play is the primary access model; a separate, real membership program (Full Golf, Social, Junior Executive, Family, Single) exists with no member assessments or food-and-beverage minimums per the club's own marketing copy, but exact current pricing was not obtainable from an official source this session.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.
Initiation (range low)
Historical$10,001
Aggregator-style range found via search; not the club's own published rate sheet (pineneedleslodge.com/membership could not be fetched this session).
Initiation (range high)
Historical$25,000
See initiation_fee_min notes.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current membership fee schedule directly with the club -- no official current figure was found this session.
- Confirm whether any residential community anywhere markets bundled or preferential Pine Needles access; none was found this session.
Notable
- Pine Needles has hosted four U.S. Women's Opens: 1996, 2001, 2007 and 2022.
- Owner/operator Peggy Kirk Bell (1954-2016) was an LPGA Tour founding member and 2019 World Golf Hall of Fame inductee.
- As of July 2025, the Pine Needles/Mid Pines ownership group (led by Kelly Miller) also acquired Country Club of Whispering Pines and Foxfire Resort & Golf -- two anchors in this platform's neighboring West End/Whispering Pines/Foxfire market.
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