Four days. Four courses. Twelve men. One trophy.
Tournament History
2022
Point Clear, AL
Lakewood Golf Club
Year I · Inaugural2024
Rising Fawn, GA
McLemore Golf Club
Year II2025
Verona, NY
Turning Stone Resort & Casino
Year III2026
Southern Pines, NC
Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club
Year IV · Final2027
To be decided
Being planned
Year V · Up NextThe Quail Run Invitational returns for Year V. Twelve friends, two captains, two sides of six — the format that has carried the trip since Point Clear: best ball, scramble, and match play, capped by a final scramble for the closer. The where and when are still being settled.
Year IV is in the books — four days across the Donald Ross country of Southern Pines. Relive the 2026 scores, standings, and schedule in the archive. Then head to the off-season room to help lock in the dates and courses for Year V.
The Courses
Par 71 · 6,554 yds
Tobacco Road is Mike Strantz's wild, boundary-pushing design, carved in 1998 from a former tobacco farm and sand quarry in North Carolina's Sandhills. The par-71 layout plays roughly 6,554 yards from the back 'Ripper' tees and is famous for dramatic blind tee shots, towering sandy waste areas, severe contours, and bold risk-reward decisions on nearly every hole — widely regarded as one of America's most thrilling and unconventional public courses.
Par 71 · 6,695 yds
Southern Pines Golf Club is a Donald Ross design dating to 1906 in the heart of the Village of Southern Pines, now under the same ownership as neighboring Pine Needles and Mid Pines. Kyle Franz led an 18-month restoration completed in 2021 that removed roughly 700 trees, expanded the greens, rebuilt the bunkers with rugged Sandhills sand, widened fairways, and recreated Ross's original short par-3 'Lost Hole.' The result is a walkable, strategic, mid-length Ross course celebrated for its bold green complexes and rolling terrain.
