The greens undulate into the distance at Tobacco Road Golf Club, a dazzling course that occupies an abandoned quarry in Sanford, N.C. The Carolinas are one of the world's great golf meccas, with more than 700 courses from bargain local layouts to ultra-pricey manicured trophy tracks. Tobacco Road is designer Mike Strantz's masterpiece. Many courses have one especially dramatic signature hole, but here, every hole is spectacular, with blind carries, improbable angles and unexpected hazards. From the air, Strantz's characteristic elongated greens are on full display at Tobacco Road. Many have the odd, elliptical shapes of those iconic Salvador Dali clocks.(Glenn Dickerson)
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