Finley Golf Course
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UNC Finley Golf Course in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC Health Care...

, is the home of the North Carolina Tar Heels
North Carolina Tar Heels
The North Carolina Tar Heels are the athletic teams for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The name Tar Heel is a nickname used to refer to individuals from the state of North Carolina, the Tar Heel State...

 men's and women's golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 teams. It was originally built by Raleigh
Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...

 businessman A. E. Finley in 1949 to a design by George Cobb
George Cobb (golf)
George W. Cobb, ASGCA is a notable and prolific golf course designer who created the Par-3 Course at Augusta National Golf Club among more than one hundred courses and renovated many, including his own early work...

. Further holes were added in the 1980s along with renovation of the clubhouse. In 1999, renowned designer Tom Fazio
Tom Fazio
Thomas Fazio, ASGCA is a golf course architect.Fazio graduated in 1962 from Lansdale Catholic High School and was inducted into its "Hall of Fame" in 2007. He began his career in golf course design with his family's firm in suburban Philadelphia, which he left in the 1960s; he established his own...

remolded the course into its current par 72 layout with five sets of tees ranging from 4,981 to 7,220 yards in length.

Scorecard

# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out
Par     4         4         5         4         3         5         4         3         4         36    
    Yds     430 355 560 412 224 533 358 169 458 3,499
SI 6 14 2 16 12 10 8 18 4

# 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In
Par     4         4         3         5         3         4         4         5         4         36    
    Yds     444 425 211 564 165 469 449 560 434 3721
SI 5 7 13 11 17 3 1 15 9
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