Those holes aside, you'd be hard-pressed to stand in one spot on the course and figure out where you'd have been on the old one. It's hard to visualize what used to be here. The new Finley has five sets of tees, par 72. The back tees stretch to 7,187 yards and are accessible only to players granted permission from the pro shop. There's a good variety of lengths to the holes, and of requirements for playing draws and fades.
Hazards take the form of bunkers, creeks, wetlands, and two new lakes.
Walking is allowed, and the relatively tight positioning of one hole to the next makes playing Finley on foot a pleasure. Finley is Fazio's 11th course in the state he's called home since the late 1980s. It's one he'll put against anything else he's done in North Carolina. A lot of former clients were on the planning committee for Finley. The pressure was on to meet their expectations, which are pretty high.