The Cardinal by Pete Dye

Too wet to enjoy. Drainage is horrible, played out of mud most of the day. Lost a couple balls to plugs.

One of the best courses in NC. Great value and beautiful course!

Well manicured course! Even in the winter time! This Houstonian will be back.

Pete Dye won again. I came back out to @cardinalbydye for a redemption round, only to fail once again. The conditions were great and the staff here is very helpful. The thing I am most appreciative of is the greens card. It definitely cut a lot of time with me standing there looking at the greens dumbfounded. I'll be back in 2022, to give The Cardinal another go. This is one of the very few @mcconnellgolf courses, that the public can get on. I highly recommend purchasing a round here ($51 is a steal).

Hit in the rough the round is tough! I absolutely loved playing this course, greens were fast and a great way to practice reading putts better. We started our round and I couldn’t believe the fairways, it’s like velvet! We ended up getting a little rain at the turn, and still with the rain, the fairway was still the one of the best I’ve played on!

I haven’t been playing too long, and haven’t gotten around to many courses, but so far this is the best all around course I’ve ever played. The fairways were like velvet. Greens are fast just the way I like them! Also it rained on us and after the rain stopped you couldn’t even tell it had rained. The scenery was absolutely beautiful and was definitely one of the tougher course to play on in the area.

Had a great day. The group ahead was crazy slow but let us through at the turn. Course was the best I have ever seen it.

One of the nicest and more challenging courses in the area and worth the money. I played 18 hot deal for 28$ and other times 35$. Well worth over 50$ to play there. With courses in area costing 60-80$ to play it, it is definitely a gem in the area. Course is nicer and more of a challenge than the higher costing courses in the area. Would definitely recommend to anyone, especially the higher level players. And try it from the tips, a good challenge then.

December has been a month with sunny, cold and wet weather. I finally found the chance to play this Pete Dye gem. Located in Greensboro, The Cardinal is one of the few McConnell Group courses that isn't completely private.

The layout is tough, the greens are tough, no question about that. This par 71 course can play upto 7,000 yards. Of course I would do no such thing, so we played the white tees at 6,000 yards. This Pete Dye track has a great variation in hole placement. Based on the handicap it goes: (front) 7,17,9,13,1,11,5,15,3 (back) 12 16,10, 18, 8,2,14,4,6.

My favorite hole had to be #11, a 325 yard, downhill par 4. If you have ever played Oak Hollow GC, there is a hole that has a similar layout. The approach is very intimidating as you have water on left, right and behind, as well as sand encasing all sides.

All the the greens sit up. If you landed you ball short or on the edge, it was surely going to roll back. There is a lot of sand on this course. Be prepared to play out of it. There is a green side bunker at the practice facilities. Be sure to get a feel for it, before you get on the course.

Pros: This is an awesome course. The price is very reasonable, especially for a course of its magnitude. The practice area is nice and they use high quality range balls. The staff there was very friendly and accommodating.

Con: When it's wet, it is really wet. A portion of the course sits down in a flood plain, so whenever there is alot of rain in a short amount of time, the course feels it hard.

I have really lost my game during the month of December. It was never anything great to start with, but I've been playing bad bad. I shot well over 100 and I only had 1 par on the day and 1 bogey.

Fun course with difficult raised greens. Great condition for this time if year and the greens were smooth. Couldn't get around one slow group likely due to a language barrier but still able to finish before dark and didn't start until 150. Staff at club house were great as were the tacos!

Great round in beautiful conditions. Loved hitting a 6 iron just past the flag on the difficult par 3 12th? Only downside was cart path only!

Weather conditions were what caused me to give it a 4 star.
We played 18 in under 3 1/2 hours.
Greens were quick for a wet day.. I would play the course again

Staff was rude He though He was above the World! I made the mistake of wearing jeans but I had a nice shirt! There was very few people playing and nothing special going on and He commenced to inform me that I could not play in jeans . They were nice jeans not old and worn out! I So I really wanted to play and so I went home and changed and came back. I got tthere and had about 45 minutes until my tee time and I asked him could he just let me have a bag of balls to hit on the range on the house for my mistake of wearing jeans and He told me that if I hadn’t ask He might have . Rude!! My tee time was at 12:10 so I payed for my range balls and then he told me that He had to move my tee time to-12:20 and that I would be playing by myself!! I really should have left at that point and now I sitting at home stewing and I see several more bad reviews about the rude staff!!! I wish that place luck! Times are tough!!

It was my first time out and I made the mistake of wearing a pair jeans! My bad but it was not busy and The Guy wouldn’t let me play no if and or butts. I was wearing a nice shirt. It was a Tuesday for crying out loud!! Nobody was there! I understand rules but really!!! $ 4 for a soda on top of that. The place is overpriced forsure!