Bald Head Island Country Club

Here golf is more than a game. It’s also a sightseeing excursion.

Enhancing nature’s abundance, the Bald Head Island Club’s 18-hole championship golf course winds its way over dunes, around lagoons, along the ocean, and through a maritime forest. Designer George Cobb, who for 20 years was the lead consultant at Augusta National, left much of the terrain the way he found it, creating a course of almost unparalleled wild beauty. Many of the holes are so undisturbed... [more]

Here golf is more than a game. It’s also a sightseeing excursion.

Enhancing nature’s abundance, the Bald Head Island Club’s 18-hole championship golf course winds its way over dunes, around lagoons, along the ocean, and through a maritime forest. Designer George Cobb, who for 20 years was the lead consultant at Augusta National, left much of the terrain the way he found it, creating a course of almost unparalleled wild beauty. Many of the holes are so undisturbed, in fact, they are bordered by the still lively natural habitats of herons, egrets, ibises, foxes and alligators.

Awarded a coveted 4.5 stars from Golf Digest’s Places to Play, the Bald Head Island Club Course has a slope rating of 139 and course rating of 74.3, putting it in the top 20 percent of courses in difficulty. Weekend warriors need not be discouraged, though. The Bald Head Island Club Course is known to play on several levels, and average golfers find it very playable from the forward tees.

  Mark Laird - 8/8/08
The course is beautiful, lots of nature and gators! Don't worry though, you are safe on this course. This is the way golf is supposed to be played, in a great scenic route, that leads you hitting the golf ball into the hole almost making you disapointed because you wanted to stay on the course longer.

  sandkat - 10/11/06