ABERDEEN, NORTH CAROLINA | Bill Coore, bundled into a layered all-black outfit to hold off the Carolina cold, grabbed himself a cup of coffee on this chilly January morning and walked out to the crest of a hill to look across the golf course he is bringing to life from the remnants of a long-ago sand mine.
What will be Pinehurst No. 11, sitting shoulder to shoulder with Tom Doak’s No. 10 course, is still being roughed in and the heavy equipment, most of it a muted shade of yellow, is scattered down the slope as another day of shaping and debris removal comes to life.