Pinehurst No. 2 in GSPro

Finding Pinehurst No. 2 in GSPro

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Pinehurst No. 2 is in the directory as Pinehurst 2, built by Cintigolfer and Tekbud. Course names get changed for licensing, so this is inspired by the Ross original rather than an official recreation, but the crowned greens and sandy edges that define the place are all here.

It's free to download, with no Patreon subscription. Search for “Pinehurst” in the GSPro course browser, or open its page on The Course View to check the scorecard and yardages first.

Recommended Settings

Almost every course defends itself with rough, water, or wind. Pinehurst No. 2 does it with the greens. Ross crowned them so they shed anything that isn't struck cleanly, and a ball that lands two feet off line trickles into a collection area and leaves an awful little chip. To get that on the simulator, firm greens are everything:

Firm and fast is the whole point here. On soft greens the turtleback shapes barely register and the course plays like any other parkland layout; at stimp 12 with firm surfaces, a slightly long approach rolls off the back exactly as it does in a US Open. Leave the wind moderate and let the greens do the work. For the hardware that runs GSPro, our launch monitor buyer's guide compares every option.

Holes to Know

There's no water and little rough, so the drama is in the approaches and the chips off those green surrounds:

• Hole 3. A short par 4 where the green rejects anything but a precise wedge. A reminder early in the round that length isn't the defense here.
• Hole 5. A long, uphill par 4 that plays as one of the hardest on the course, with a green that repels a running approach.
• Hole 16. A par 4 down the stretch where the crowned green has decided plenty of championships in the closing holes.
• Hole 18. The closing par 4, where Payne Stewart holed the winning putt in the 1999 US Open. An uphill approach to a green that gives nothing away.

About the Real Pinehurst No. 2

Pinehurst No. 2 sits in the village of Pinehurst in the North Carolina sandhills. Donald Ross opened it in 1907 and kept refining it until his death in 1948, and it is regarded as his masterpiece. A 2011 restoration by Coore and Crenshaw stripped out decades of added rough and returned the sandy, wiregrass-edged look Ross intended. It has hosted the US Open four times, including Payne Stewart in 1999 and Bryson DeChambeau in 2024, and is now a permanent anchor site for the championship, booked to return through the middle of the century.

See which upcoming tour events have matching courses in GSPro on the full 2026 tournament schedule.

More Famous Courses in GSPro

Pinehurst is one of many major venues the directory carries under alternate names. A few others worth a round:

• Oakmont CC, inspired by the hardest US Open venue in the rotation
• Pebble Beach, the clifftop US Open venue (see our Pebble Beach guide)
• TPC Sawgrass, home of the island green (see our Sawgrass guide)

Browse the full list of courses inspired by real courses or the major tournament courses.

Setting up at home

If Pinehurst has you eyeing a sim room, start with the launch monitor buyer’s guide, which compares every unit that works with GSPro. A few other things earn their place:

• Hitting mats (Amazon): Pinehurst is all about crisp contact off firm turf; a good mat rehearses it.
• Chipping mats (Amazon): you’ll be chipping off those green surrounds constantly, so short-game practice pays off.
• Impact screens (Amazon): the sandhills look far better projected wall-size than on a laptop.

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