Burning Ridge Golf Club is located in the center of the Grand Strand, just off highway 501 between Myrtle Beach and the town of Conway, convenient to most oceanfront resorts. Designed by Gene Hamm, the golf course opened in 1980 and has been a favorite of residents and visitors alike ever since. It boasts rolling terrain and well-maintained TifEagle Bermuda putting surfaces.
Open since 1990, Blackmoor Golf Club is one of the Grand Strand’s most beloved modern layouts. It is the work of legendary golfer and golf course architect Gary Player—his only design effort in the Myrtle Beach area. Blackmoor’s location in scenic Murrells Inlet places it among the prestigious courses of the area’s Waccamaw Golf Trail.
Situated alongside the Fazio, Love and Dye courses at Barefoot, the Norman Course offers the award-winning resort’s most stunning visuals and, arguably, its most player-friendly course. With five sets of tees that range from 4,953 to 7,035 yards, Norman crafted a layout for any level of golfer.
More than a decade after Barefoot became the first, and still only, American facility to open four courses simultaneously, the Love Course is the property’s most popular layout. It has been a fixture on Golf Magazine’s list of “The Top 100 You Can Play,” a ranking of public courses and was the host site of Golf Channel’s hit reality TV show; ‘BIG BREAK’ Myrtle Beach. Even more importantly, is the place the Love Course holds in the hearts of golfers.
A three-time member of Golf Digest’s ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses, the Fazio Course is one of the area’s strongest.Its no wonder why it was the host site of Golf Channel’s hit reality TV show; ‘BIG BREAK’ Myrtle Beach. With waste bunkers or more traditional bunkers lining nearly every fairway, the Tom Fazio design provides ample challenge from start to finish.
Pete Dye, The Hall of Fame of architect, delivered everything that was expected of him at Barefoot Resort’s Dye Club, which has been ranked among America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses. The Dye Club, the area’s most prominent “big event” course, can rattle the weak of mind of with yawning waste bunkers and the perception of a meaty challenge.
World Golf Hall of Famer Raymond Floyd and course architect Tom Jackson teamed up to create this 27-hole gem, located near the heart of Myrtle Beach. Each of the three nines – Cypress, Lakes and Waterway -- has it’s own personality taking a lot of its character from what nature provided.
Opened in 1974, the course helped to launch the career of noted modern architect Rees Jones, who made the course his first solo design effort. In the proceeding four decades, it has hosted numerous Carolinas PGA events, testing players with tree-lined fairways and undulating, well-protected green complexes with Tifton Dwarf Bermuda putting surfaces.
Noted international course architect Arthur Hills has designed courses all across America, and several foreign countries, but only one course in Myrtle Beach bares his signature, and that is the PineHills Course at Mytlewood Golf Club.
Located in the heart of Myrtle Beach, off of Highway 17 ByPass, The Palmetto Course at Myrtlewood is a traditional layout designed by Edmund Ault in the early 1970s. It features gently sloping fairways with a variety of hazards, bunkers and large, subtle undulating greens.