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Posted on November 23, 2011 by Admin

Welcome to the official website of the Pinehurst Knights, a group of U.S. golfers who participate in the yearly Pinehurst Knights Golf Invitational consisting of 7 days of unfettered golf. The Pinehurst Knights Invitational has been a long standing annual fall event conceived by an original foursome of golfing buddies residing in the Trenton New Jersey area of the United States. Our event is deeply rooted in a multi-year history of over 12+ consecutive years. Steeped in tradition and folklore, official record keeping did not start until 2004. This website was created in 2011 to create an archive and photo gallery of our events each year. The current membership has been capped to 12 members strong at the end of the official Fall 2014 Season!

Special thanks to Talamore Golf Resort where this group has stayed for as long as I can remember. — John DeBlase / Website Manager

We always enjoy the experience at Talamore and the hospitality of the Southern Pines area along with all the amazing golf the Pinehurst area has to offer. That’s why we keep coming back for more…!

2025 Pinehurst Knights are Back!

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Admin

After 7 years of drought, this is the year that marks the long awaited return of the Pinehurst Knights after the Covid 19 horror show. We have 14 golfers playing this year in the fabulous Pinehurst area, many for the first time, along with some of our old timers. I will post the information and photos from the team here during the course of their play this week.

Scroll some of the early photos below that were sent to me so far from the outing each day.

Enjoy one of the finest golf venues in the USA !!! Good luck to all of you. Sorry my back surgery kept me out of the fun this year but as John Lennon sang, “It’s getting better all the time…” — Johnny D.

Who is this with the classic perfect set up to start the todays’ round? Its truly a thing of beauty!!

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2018 Pinehurst Invitational

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Admin

This year’s 2018 Pinehurst Invitational was filled with change! For instance… For the first time in many years we did not spend our week at the Talamore (“Beam me up Scotty”) Golf Resort. This year we made camp at the very wet Little River Resort that suffered damage due to Hurricane Florence. Here are some of the other changes… First, and foremost….

We have a new champ! This year’s winner was Joe “Gotz” Gigliotti. Joe and Billy were locked in an exciting back and forth battle on the last day’s final round at Pinewild. Joe was the winner in a putting duel on the 18th hole and won the cup by just two points.

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BEST SHOT OF THE WEEK!

The best shot of the week has to go to Paul Slachta for his tee shot on #3 (174 yard) Par 3 on our last day at Pinewild (Magnolia). Aces just doesn’t get any closer than this boys!

His fellow Knights reminded him… “if it’s for a point you must PUTT IT OUT” … and so yes he made the birdie 🙂

You can check out some of the other “special moments” during the week in our 2018 Photo Gallery.

One other change this year was playing some of the rounds from combo tees and gold tees on select courses.

The change was well received where played during the week which led to a majority vote, passed by the group during our awards dinner, to change the tee boxes for the event on all courses in the future from the white tees to the gold (or next closer to the hole). This should make the tournament length more enjoyable and also generate higher Stableford scoring opportunities and more scoring fun for all!