MacGregor Downs Country Club

Overview: MacGregor Downs Country Club is a private Willard Byrd design in Cary, arranged around the Lake MacGregor setting. The club's 18-hole course uses wooded corridors, water and rolling ground, with a traditional private-club character rather than a resort-style visitor operation.

History: The club opened in 1967 with Byrd's golf course. MacGregor Downs's own history records later updates to greens and tees in 2015 and bunker work in 2021, showing how the club has modernized the course without changing its central architectural identity.

Did You Know? The club hosted the Liggett & Myers PGA Tour Match Play in the early 1970s and later became a regular collegiate venue for the Stitch Intercollegiate. Those events belong to MacGregor Downs in Cary, not to similarly named courses elsewhere in the Carolinas.