Tobacco Road, quirky design-world darling, adding new course (with a twist)

The late, great architect Mike Strantz never hewed to convention. So it’s only fitting that a side project spawned by his most iconoclastic creation skips a few conventions of its own. At Tobacco Road Golf Course in the North Carolina Sandhills, owner Mark Stewart has announced construction of the Matchbox, a 12-hole par-3 course that will thread through the trees near the 12th and 13th fairways of Strantz’s wondrous funhouse of a layout. Like its big sibling, the new course will sit on family land that once...