Almost everyone in golf knows about Pinehurst No. 2. But who would have ever labeled it as a freak course, or suggested converting it to an employee's course? According to author Richard Mandell, if you think you know the story of Pinehurst, think again.

In celebration of the 100-year anniversary of Pinehurst No. 2, golf course architect Mandell has written a definitive history of North Carolina Sandhills golf, "Pinehurst ~ Home of American Golf (The Evolution of a Legend)."

Mandell spent four years researching and revealing the story of one of the three most popular golfing destinations in the world, and have produced a detailed account of the evolution of the playing fields of sandhills golf and how it directly affected the game of golf in America.

The book also includes The Pinehurst Resort, Pine Needles, Mid Pines Golf Club, Southern Pines Country Club, The Country Club of North Carolina, Tobacco Road, and countless other golf courses of the sandhills. Rare photographs of the early days of sandhills golf include construction scenes of one of the most famous golf courses in the world as well as the only known construction drawings of Pinehurst No. 2. Mandell has also created overlays of historic golf course routings of Pinehurst on top of an aerial photograph from today. The book can be ordered at http://www.golf-architecture.com/.