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Pinehurst Resort and Spa: Health resort for patients until…
May 18, 2017
The history of Pinehurst began in 1895, when Bostonian James Walker Tufts, wealthy owner of the American Soda Fountain Company, purchased 5,800 acres of ravaged timberland in the sand- hills of central North Carolina. This land once held a flourishing pine forest that had been cut and deforested for its turpentine and building supplies. Tufts originally developed Pinehurst as a health resort for patients recovering from tuberculosis. After much of the construction had been completed, Tufts learned that tuberculosis was contagious and was forced to turn his new community into a leisure resort instead.
Written By: Steve Eubanks jseubanks
Steve Eubanks is a New York Times bestselling author and managing editor for the LPGA.
For the casual fan, it looks like she came out of nowhere. Matilda Castren finished a shot behind Jin Young Ko on Sunday at the Volunteers of America Classic, shooting four rounds in the 60s and putting pressure on the former world No. 1 right up until the final putt, a 4-footer that Ko had to make to seal the win. But for a misread 2-footer that dove left on the 15th green, Castren might have won the VOA just three weeks after she captured her first win, the Mediheal Championship, in just her 15th LPGA Tour start. As rises go, this one appears to be meteoric.
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