Pinehurst No. 2

Donald Ross built this course to be walked. 7,588 yards through North Carolina sandhills means something. Sandy soil. Firm playing surfaces. Inverted-saucer greens that punish anything but a precise approach. A cart obscures all of it. Walk it. The caddie program here is what every other course should copy. The loop from the clubhouse reads like the sentence American golf started writing a century ago. At $595, this isn't a casual afternoon. It's a pilgrimage. Treat it that way.