Pinehurst pedigree

Pinehurst Resort’s No. 2 course has been home to more single golf championships than any site in America. It is one reason why Pinehurst has long been hailed as the “Cradle of American Golf.”
But of all those championships, only one is most emblematic of not just Pinehurst’s storied and lengthy history in the game but its continued relevance today.
No, it is not the U.S. Open. Not even for what the USGA has dubbed an “anchor site” for the national championship.

And it is not the North & South Amateur, which is considered the longest consecutively running national amateur championship in the United States and boasts such notable past champions as Francis Ouimet and Jack Nicklaus, among many others over its 123 straight years of competitions.
It is the Women’s North & South Amateur.
At no point in any era of its 121 consecutive years has the Women’s North & South not been a snapshot of the world’s best female golfers. Before there was even a notion of a professional women’s tour, there was the Women’s North & South, a t...