Conferences, trade shows, incentive retreats, board meetings, gala dinners and weddings can be organized here for groups from 12 to 1,000 guests. Pinehurst Resort is a golf resort in the Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina, with three historic hotels, clubhouses, a lake and a long list of indoor and outdoor event spaces.
Seminars and company events
The resort sells events at every scale, from a small executive meeting around one table to a retreat for an entire company of 1,000 people. The Carolina Hotel is the main conference base, with the Grand Ballroom and Carolina Hall below it. Smaller groups can use the Holly Inn, which has five meeting rooms, The Manor, the Resort Clubhouse, and the clubhouses of courses No. 8 and No. 9. A sales team and a separate conference services team plan the program, and group activities can be added between sessions. Golf is the obvious one: the resort runs ten numbered courses, including No. 2 by Donald Ross, an anchor site of the U.S. Open, plus the new No. 11, The Cradle short course and the Thistle Dhu putting course. An evening at Dornoch Cottage, the former home of Donald Ross, can be booked as a private event.
Weddings and receptions
Ceremonies and receptions take place indoors or outdoors, and the team also handles the events around them: engagement parties, rehearsal dinners, welcome parties, bridal luncheons, golf outings for the groom's party and farewell brunches. Wedding packages are available to download. Outdoor settings include the West Lawn under longleaf pines, the Lake Pavilion on Lake Pinehurst and the pool deck at the Holly Inn, shaded by old magnolias.
Rooms and capacities
The Grand Ballroom takes up to 1,000 guests and can be divided into as many as five rooms, among them the Callaway and Oakley rooms (24 to 240 each) and the Tufts Room (120). Carolina Hall offers 14,000 sq. ft. of open floor for conferences and trade shows. The Cardinal Ballroom seats 320 theater style and has a raised stage. The Outlook Ballroom at Pinehurst Country Club takes 260 with views of course No. 2. The West Lawn holds 600, the Carolina Terrace 350 and the Centennial Veranda 250. The Donald Ross Room seats 150 for dinner or 175 for a reception, and the Centennial Boardroom seats 18 with built-in audiovisual equipment.
Accommodation
Guests can be split between three historic hotels: the Holly Inn, open since 1895, the Carolina Hotel, built in 1901, and The Manor, renovated over a year and reopened in 2019. The Magnolia Inn adds eight rooms renovated in 2022. Larger parties can also use the Carolina Villas, each with four separately keyed guest rooms beside the Carolina's west lawn, the Cottages at No. 8 and two or three bedroom condos.
Catering
Pinehurst Catering runs all event food. Planners can pick from set banquet menus or have the culinary team build a custom menu, from an hors d'oeuvre party for 20 to a full banquet. The Executive Chef can also cater outdoor events on the lawns.
History and setting
Pinehurst began receiving guests in 1895. The village layout is credited to Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect of Central Park, and several meeting rooms are named after the people who shaped the resort, including the hotel architects Edward F. Stevens and Bertram E. Taylor, Henry R. Kendall and Annie Oakley, who ran the Pinehurst Gun Club. Course No. 8 opened in 1996 for the resort's centennial and is an Audubon Certified Signature Sanctuary.
