Myrtle Beach is home to some of the best, challenging and fun golf courses in the country. From private, semi-private and public courses, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is your destination of choice for a great golf vacation.
1. Caledonia Golf – Architect Mike Strantz’ first solo design, Caledonia is one of the area’s treasures. Situated on approximately 120 acres of prime Lowcountry land, the course treats golfers to live oak trees draped in Spanish moss, the marshy waters of the Waccamaw Neck, and Strantz’ peerless architectural vision.
2. True Blue Golf Club – Everything about this Mike Strantz design is big – the fairways, waste bunkers, greens and most of all the fun. The layout isCaledonia Golf & Fish Club 18th Hole among the Myrtle Beach area’s most creative, providing mid to high handicappers the comfort of playing to large fairways while demanding more skilled golfers play to the proper spots if they want to score.
3. Tidewater Golf Club – With nine holes that play along either the Intracoastal or Cherry Grove Inlet, Tidewater is one of the prettiest courses in all of South Carolina. The holes along Cherry Grove – 3, 4, 12 and 13 – are particularly stunning. This was the first layout ever named best new public course in America by Golf Digest and Golf Magazine.
4. Dunes Golf – This one will likely catch people by surprise as the Dunes Club is typically the area’s top-ranked course. While the Robert Trent Jones Sr layout may not top the list, players still loved this classic design. As the host of the U.S. Women’s Open and six Senior PGA Tour Championships, the Dunes Club helped put Myrtle Beach on the map.
5. Grande Dunes Resort Course – Featuring five holes that play along a bluff overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway, Grande Dunes offers the stunningGrande Dunes Resort Club 9th Hole coastal view golfers crave. Following a 2022 renovation project that included the restoration of the greens to their original specifications and the overhaul of every bunker on the course, Grandes Dunes is better than ever.
6. TPC Myrtle Beach – No matter their handicap, players love to test themselves on a PGA Tour-level layout and TPC Myrtle Beach delivers just such a challenge. The Tom Fazio-Lanny Wadkins design is one of the area’s best, highlighted by a finish that includes the risk-reward par 5 18th hole. The TPC brand carries great expectations and this layout meets every one of them.
7. King’s North at Myrtle Beach National – An Arnold Palmer design, King’s North has long been one of the Grand Strand’s most popular layouts. On any list of the area’s most iconic holes you will find the par 5 sixth, otherwise known as “The Gambler,” the island green, par 12th with its signature “SC” bunkers, and No. 18, a par 4 that features 40+ bunkers. King’s North is fun to play and that’s why golfers love it.
8. Barefoot Dye – No surprise the long-time host of the Hootie & the Blowfish Monday After the Masters is a fan favorite. Featuring the waste bunkering and visual deception architect Pete Dye is known for, the Dye Course offers a firm but fair test golfers enjoy.
9. Pawleys Plantation – This stunning Jack Nicklaus design is highlighted by six holes along the back nine that bring a tidal marsh into play, making it one of the area’s prettiest layouts. With aPawleys 13th summer renovation project that will include new greens and a complete overhaul of the course’s bunkers in 2023, Pawleys will likely climb this ladder in future editions.
10. Heritage Club – The Dan Maples design plays through a beautiful piece of Lowcountry land and is home to some of the area’s most diabolical greens complexes.
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