And don’t be fooled by the yardage on the scorecard: it reads the course will play 6,543 yards from the tips, but many holes will play at least one club longer. ![]() Each hole presents a unique challenge that can vary daily depending on weather, season or pin position. There is no signature hole here and there doesn’t need to be. And it’s all framed by rocks and outcroppings of all sizes, streams, thick forest and ponds that come along with being situated on the edge of Uwharrie National Forest. What resulted is an 18-hole track with momentous elevation changes, sharp angles and undulations from the first tee to the final green. That was likely a good idea, as every effort was made to leverage the natural terrain as much as possible. Strantz, who died of cancer in 2005, lived onsite during construction in order to oversee the project start-to-finish. This course made the list on the purest of criteria – strictly for its design. That’s wasn’t the case with Tot Hill Farm, which has bounced around the list during the past six years. Those courses have been deservedly awarded major championship tournaments or, in the case of TPC-Sawgrass, other prestigious events that surely aided their chances of making that top-50 list. Each of those courses has a style and unique image: Whistling Straits with its waist-high rough and massive dunes, Winged Foot’s tight fairways and punishing greens, and TPC-Sawgrass’ plethora of bunkers and, of course, its notorious par-3 17th hole with the famed island green. 7, ahead of big-name tracks such as Whistling Straits (No. And, as Little will attest, those teeth are sharp. Not only had his previous rounds kept his ego in check, but you don’t make Golf Digest’s list of America’s Toughest Golf Courses without having some legitimate teeth, as it first did in 2007. He knew what he was getting into when he prepared to make the 45-minute drive from his home in Concord, to play this Mike Strantz-designed course in Asheboro. Little’s words dripped of frustration, though his tone indicated otherwise. ![]() “But If I don’t turn it around it’s going to get worse than that.” “I’m playing terrible today, just trying to get loose,” Little said. But he’s never posted better than an 81 in three visits to Tot Hill Farm and wasn’t considering taking bets on if he could match or best that score on this day. The manager of the new Golfsmith store opening in Charlotte, Little plays to an 8.4 handicap and knows his way around a golf course. Instead it was to better position himself for a third shot to an elevated green while also keeping his ball confined within the boundaries of a course that can be as unforgiving as it as beautiful. The low liner he smacked on that par-5 hole wasn’t a sign of him giving up. Having hit a slight bump-and-run to advance his ball up the fourth fairway at Tot Farm Hill Golf Club – he was already planning his next shot. ![]() Little was too focused on playing target golf. The sun was shining, but a raw breeze cut across Jeremy Little has he strolled to his golf cart.
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