The Virginia Golfer Conversation
After a long tenure in the golf industry, Don Padgett II
became president of Pinehurst in 2004 and has
been instrumental in reinvigorating the resort and its
golf courses.
T
oday, Padgett resides in Pinehurst with
his wife, Gabrielle.
D
on Padgett II, the president and chief operating
officer of the Pinehurst
Resort and Country Club,
will be going out in grand
style. He plans to retire this
fall after an unprecedented
double-header: Pinehurst
will host both the men’s and women’s U.S.
Opens in back-to-back weeks in June. The
championships will be played on Pinehurst
No. 2, the historic course that has just been
restored so that it looks and plays just as it did
in the early days of the resort.
The redesign of No. 2 is one of the highlights of Padgett’s 10-year tenure at Pinehurst.
Prior to that, he was vice president and
general manager of Firestone Country Club
in Akron, Ohio; Padgett has served in the
ClubCorp family since 1980. In 1989 he won
the World Golf Pro-Am on Pinehurst No. 2.
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He is also the son of Donald Padgett Sr., the
former PGA director o