Saturday 4/5/2014
We came to the Pinehurst area, because one of the bloggers I follow blogged, "On The Road To Retirement" at http://zeetraveler.blogspot.com/2013/04/southern-pines-north-carolina.html about this area and it looked like an interesting place to visit. Plus we needed to spend some time for at least another month before moving further north. I also follow another RV blogger, Dawn at http://dawnandjeffsblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/here-we-are.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DawnsBloggyBlog+%28Dawns+bloggy+blog%29I knew her sister lived in Carthage, and they come to this area a lot, but the last I knew they were still in Texas when we decided to visit this area. A few days before we arrived in Carthage, I saw that they had left Texas. After a few days in the area, I saw on FB that Dawn and Jeff drove long day and night hours and were in Carthage a few days after we arrived. What takes a couple weeks for us, took days for them.
I FB Dawn, and told her we were only a couple miles away, and hoped we could get together before we left. I had told Dawn, We were planning on going to Weymouth Woods, so we decided to go together. |
The preserve is a 900- acre longleaf pine forest. It is home to the rare and endangered red cockaded woodpecker, but we didn't see one. |
After lunch Jeff drove us over to the Pinhurest Country Club. Here we saw people playing bocce ball. |
As we walked the halls of the Country Club, we saw many exhibits of US Open trophies. |
This is a picture of the 1999 US Open winner Payne Stewart. |
Arnold Palmer said Pinehurst is the Golf Capitol of the World. |
The US Open is held on Golf Course #2 at the Country Club. This is a picture of hole #1 of Course #2. |
From that picture, you can look down the wall and see a picture of every hole of Course #2 if you are a golfer! |
The last US Open that was held at Pinehurst was in 2005. |
We walked out to the back deck of the Pinehurst Country Club, and I took this picture of the flower bed and the golfer statues off in the distance. |
Joe and Jeff standing in front of the statue of Payne Stewart. |
A look back at the Pinehurst Country Club back patio decks. |
Payne Stewart was killed a few years later after winning the US Open in a plane crash. |
The statue on the left is of Donald Ross the "American father of Golf Course Architecture". |
Jeff goofing off with the statue's |
As we walked around the Country Club, we saw some of the other courses as well as the outside cafe . |
We finally see a bird in a tree at the Pinehurst Country Club. Dawn told me what it was, but I have forgot the name. I looked through my bird book, but I couldn't figure it out. Help! |
Before leaving Dawn and Jeff, I got a picture of them in front of Homey, that is parked at her sister's home in the side yard. |
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