If you like playing golf, 4 of the best 20 ranked courses from the Raleigh Durham Triangle to the Coast are located in or near Wilmington, which is a short drive (28 miles) from Topsail Island.
Here is the listing from Metro Magazine:
The Top 20 Courses: From the Triangle to the Coast
If you’re a golfer in the Metro readership region from the Triangle to the Coast, consider yourself blessed. There are so many great clubs and outstanding courses that compiling a definitive Top 20 list leaves too much for argument.
The selections are in alphabetical order, but three courses stand indisputably at the top nationally — Donald Ross’ masterpiece, Pinehurst No. 2 and Tom Fazio’s Eagle Point near Wilmington and Forest Creek in Pinehurst.
1. Bald Head Island – Southport; George Cobb, 1974.
2. Cape Fear Country Club – Wilmington; Donald Ross, 1924 & 1947.
3. Country Club of North Carolina – (Dogwood) – Pinehurst; Ellis Maples, 1973.
4. Croasdaile – Durham; George Cobb, 1961.
5. Currituck Club – Corolla; Rees Jones, 1996.
6. Eagle Point – near Wilmington; Tom Fazio, 2000.
7. Forest Creek – Southern Pines; Tom Fazio, 1996.
8. Governors Club – Chapel Hill; Jack Nicklaus, 1990.
9. Hasentree – Raleigh; Tom Fazio, 2007.
10. Hope Valley Country Club – Durham; Donald Ross, 1926.
11. Landfall Dye Course – Wilmington; Pete Dye, 1988.
12. North River – Beaufort; Bob Moore, 2007.
13. Old Chatham – Chapel Hill; Rees Jones, 2001.
14. Pinehurst Resort & Country Club – Pinehurst No. 2 (Donald Ross, 1907); No. 4 & No. 8 (Tom Fazio, 2000 & 1996); No. 7 (Rees Jones, 1986).
15. Pine Needles – Southern Pines; Donald Ross, 1927.
16. Prestonwood – Cary; Tom Jackson, 1988.
17. Raleigh Country Club – Raleigh; Donald Ross, 1948.
18. Tobacco Road – Sanford; Mike Strantz, 1998.
19. TPC at Wakefield Plantation – Raleigh; Hale Irwin, 1996.
20. Treyburn Country Club – Durham; Tom Fazio, 1988.
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