South of the resort, in Aberdeen, there is a piece of ground that spent years being mined for sand. What it left behind was rough and scarred, a place of cuts and heaps that no one would have called beautiful. Then nature got to work. The excavations slumped and softened, the wounds grew over, and the land began to resemble something it had never been: a crumpled seaside links, all dunes and hollows, set down in the Carolina pines. Pinehurst No. 10 is the course Tom Doak found waiting there, closer to the Country Club of North Carolina than to the famous No. 2. The site had known golf before. Dan Maples built a course called The Pit here in 1985, and it ceased to exist in 2010. That same year Pinehurst Resort acquired the 900 acres that had once been Pleasants Sand & Supply. No part of The Pit survives. Doak started clean, and under the supervision of his longtime associate Angela Moser the course went up with remarkable speed, opening on April 3, 2024. It was the resort's first original golf development since Tom Fazio's No. 8 in 1996. No. 10 takes up about 250 acres, leaving plenty of room beyond it. Coore & Crenshaw once drew a routing for this ground, back in 2012, and it was never built. Now they are set to return with a No. 11 of their own, alongside a practice center and lodging. The most famous thing out here is a hill. On the 8th hole a 25-foot sand mound rises up, and they call it the Matterhorn. Doak was hesitant at first about leaving the enormous mining mounds in the middle of the eighth fairway, and it was Moser who worked to convince him. She pointed to the mogul-strewn 10th at Harry Colt's De Pan in the Netherlands as proof that such ground could work. He came around, and the 8th has become the hole people talk about. At first glance No. 10 looks like kin to No. 2: short grass running from native edge to native edge, open sand scrapes, wiregrass. Doak said he wanted it to feel like a cousin or a sister to the old course. But the likeness lives in the raw ingredients more than in the substance, and No. 10 has an identity all its own. Where No. 2 is known for upturned saucers and turtlebacks, the greens here, and many of the fairways, gather rather than repel. The ground leans toward you. Those greens were shaped by many hands, among them Eric Iverson, Brian Slawnik, Brian Schneider, Blake Conant, Parker Anderson and Joe Wandro, alongside Doak and Moser themselves. It is a par 70, 35 on each side, stretching from just under 5,000 yards to just over 7,000 across four sets of tees. The outward nine has a single par 5 and two par 3s; the inward nine has two par 5s and three par 3s. The short holes run from a wedge of 150 yards at the 7th to a monster of 264 at the 14th, where a lay-up short and right leaves a deft touch to secure par. The par 5s have plenty of meat on the bones, from 544 yards up to the 10th at 634. That hole plays downhill from the tee, so the longest hitters will still go for it in two, but for mere mortals it keeps the old thrill of a proper three-shotter, a rarer pleasure than it used to be. Doak calls the 7th and 8th pretty gettable. From the 9th through the 15th, he says, this is a hard golf course. Better to meet that stretch on foot. No. 10 was designed as a walking course, best taken with a caddie, and push carts are there free for anyone who would rather go it alone. Walking is the right way to feel how this old wound of a place has healed.