Wilmington Municipal Golf Course

Overview: Wilmington Municipal Golf Course is a public Donald Ross course in Wilmington. The city describes it as an 18-hole public championship course, and the routing remains one of the region's accessible links to early twentieth-century golf architecture. Its municipal role is as important as its Ross attribution.

History: Donald Ross designed the course in 1926. Later restoration work, including a major project associated with John Fought, sought to recover lost Ross features and improve the green complexes. The restoration history explains why modern photographs may not match every older description of the course.

Did You Know? Wilmington Municipal is commonly called the Muni by local golfers and is one of the more accessible ways to play a Ross-associated course in the area. It is separate from private Cape Fear Country Club, despite the two courses sharing the Wilmington market.