Landscapes Unlimited preps for N.C. Contentment

Landscapes Unlimited leadership will participate in the groundbreaking of the private, destination Contentment Golf Club in Traphill, N.C., on October 25.

Over the past 18 months, Landscapes Unlimited’s Project Development Group has overseen all aspects of site planning, design and engineering, permitting, contractor selection, project administration and budget planning at the forthcoming Contentment. The company is set to build an 18-hole, championship golf course and direct clubhouse and amenity development. 

Counterpart Landscapes Golf Management is undertaking membership strategies, business and operational planning, on the ground pre-opening activities and will assist with the course grow-in and grand opening.

Lester George’s original golf course design will pay tribute to 1900s legendary architects C.B. McDonald’s and Seth Raynor’s famous templates: Alps (illusionary approach shots), Redan (narrow, bunker-guarded and sloped greens) and Biarritz (massive greens bisected by a deep middle swale and flanked by narrow bunkers).

Spanning more than 800 acres in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Contentment is located about an hour from Winston-Salem, about 90 minutes from Charlotte and Greensboro, and a little more than two hours from Asheville, Raleigh, and Durham.

The property will include cottages and lodging but will otherwise be void of homes to preserve its pure, low-impact, rural character. A comprehensive golf practice facility, outdoor gathering spaces, lake, hiking trails and reflection sanctuaries are in the works.

Third-generation property owner and Davidson, N.C. resident Curt Sidden would retreat to find refuge with his late grandfather. Sidden’s father, Dr. Curtis Sidden, 92, grew up there and is heavily involved in the planning of Contentment. Now, Sidden’s vision is to provide the same, quiet, happy-place getaway for city and suburban dwellers alike.

Contentment’s grand opening is scheduled for September 25, 2025, 100 years to the day after Sidden’s grandparents were married.

“The property on which Contentment sits is one of most relaxing, rejuvenating and overall special topographies in our company’s history,” said Jack Morgan, SVP of Landscapes Unlimited’s Project Development Group.

“Contentment is a tribute to my grandparents with whom I spent time here as a boy,” Curt Sidden said. “My family showed me the benefits of a quiet, uncomplaining and satisfied mind, and we hope Contentment is a true, tranquil haven for the body, mind and soul.”