We do get a lot of repeat customers and there s no real social life around here. Old Mill Resort has long been a favorite of mountain visitors from the Triad. It is barely over an hour s drive from Winston-Salem off Route 631. Designed by Ellis Maples, known best for the Dogwood course at Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst, the Old Mill golf course features great scenery, fast, undulating bent grass greens and dramatic elevation changes. The course measures more than 6,800 from the blue tees, but distance is rarely as important as elevation when making club selections.
Elevated greens make several of the holes play longer.
The par-3 eighth hole is an excellent example with players hitting over a valley from hilltop to hilltop. At the par-3 14th, measuring 178 from the back tees, players hit an approach entirely over a lake to a green surrounded by four bunkers. Accuracy is important. The fairways are lined by difficult bluegrass rough and steep sidehill drop-offs. If you get it out of the fairway, you re in the water or the woods.