03 Feb

Posted at 13:07h in News

This article originally appeared in The Fayetteville Observer on February 1, 2018. By Bill Kirby, Jr. SOUTHERN PINES – There’s something inviting about this place with the circular drive, and all the more in the evening when you can see the soft lamps emitting a yellow hue from the Georgian-style hotel windows. There’s a warmth. “Mid Pines has history and rich traditions,” Haresh Tharani says about Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club that has been a part of the Sandhills since 1921. “It has the right bones.” Read More....

18 Jan

Posted at 13:10h in News

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C.—David Orr, who went from teaching golf at Pine Needles from 2000-04 to coaching some of the top players in professional golf a decade later, is returning to the venerable Sandhills-area resort and relocating his putting and short-game teaching business and on-line Flatstick Academy there. Orr credits his years at Pine Needles working under the late Peggy Kirk Bell as the foundation to a career that evolved into teaching Professional Golf Management at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C., and then embarking on cutting-edge putting research. He then took his putting and short-game expertise to professional golf, where his...

15 Jan

Posted at 13:11h in News

The Tharani Family through its investment company has joined the Bell Family as a new partner in owning and operating Mid Pines. SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. – Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club, a hallmark in the Sandhills area golf and travel industry for nearly a century, is under a new ownership partnership following the purchase on Dec. 1 by the Tharani family of the shares previously owned by three Triad area individuals. The Tharani Family through its investment company has joined the Bell Family as a new partner in owning and operating Mid Pines, which opened in 1921 with Donald Ross-designed golf...

17 Nov

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124 hickory enthusiasts from across the U.S. and Canada participate in the tournament using wooden clubs and wearing period attire SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. – November 17, 2017 – A full field of 124 hickory golfers from 23 states and Canada teed off this past weekend in the 14thAnnual Mid Pines Hickory Open Championship at Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club. The Hickory Open requires participants to use pre-1935 golf equipment, including wooden-shafted clubs. Players typically don period clothing including plus fours and ties. The event is played over three days on the Donald Ross-designed course, one that is valued among the best in North Carolina. Craig...