Cape Fear National Golf Club

Overview: Cape Fear National is a private-access Tim Cate course in Leland. The course uses the wooded and coastal landscape of the Lower Cape Fear region, with a championship layout designed as part of a residential golf community. Its private-access status should be made clear because the surrounding Brunswick and Wilmington market has many public resort courses.

History: The course was developed in the late 2000s and opened around 2010 as a Tim Cate design. The current operator identifies Cate as both golf-course architect and landscape architect and presents Cape Fear National as the centerpiece of the Leland community.

Did You Know? Cape Fear National is in Leland, while Cape Fear Country Club is in Wilmington and dates back to 1896. The shared Cape Fear name is a common source of ranking, address and history errors, so the city is part of the identity lock.