Selling Grand Strand golf isn’t a one-stop shop because, in fact, neither are the types of courses here.

Nor are the folks driving or flying in with clubs in tow.

Thankfully for you, that diversity is repaid in kind in the type of two-way street that rewards those who know what they want – and what skill sets they’re packing. From the guys who are challenging course records back home to those guys who knocked the dust off the clubs after arriving, we’ve got you covered.

Scratch golfers, weekend warriors and competitive friends looking to get a free beer or meal, Myrtle Beach has got what you’re looking for.

SCRATCHY MCSCRATCHFACE
Let’s just go ahead and get this out of the way for the six of you who still exist (that’s how it feels to us normies, anyway).

But when it comes to those among you who walk onto any course and start flirting with five-under par rounds, the challenges of Myrtle Beach’s golf market are aplenty, especially when you start talking about playing from the tips.

At the top of your list needs to be TPC Myrtle Beach, King’s North (pictured right) Dunes Golf & Beach Club and Pawleys Plantation. They have breakneck sight lines and distance and some terrain variations and depth perception issues you simply won’t find anywhere else.

Right behind those are the likes of True Blue Golf Club, Barefoot Resort’s Dye Course and Prestwick Country Club. Like the first group, they are designed by some of the biggest and/or most creative names in course design.

You simply don’t stack up architects like Dye, Nicklaus, Strantz, Fazio and Jones and expect easy golf to follow.

WEEKEND WARRIORS
On the opposite end of the spectrum are the courses where hitting the sticks without a care in the world is the goal.

If you’re not an every-week player, well, this section’s for you.

Up and down South Carolina’s Grand Strand are a number of everyday options that don’t require as deft a touch or even that much skill to enjoy. After all, this is what made Myrtle Beach golf so darn popular.

It’s why courses like Myrtlewood’s PineHills and Palmetto tracks, Arcadian Shore Golf Club, and Blackmoor Golf Club have done so well. They’re laid out in a clean fashion that takes the tricks out of the game. These courses and plenty more are looking for bodies, of course, but they’re not treating you like a warm cup of coffee until the next one enters the clubhouse to check in.

Same goes for Burning Ridge Golf Club, Whispering Pines Golf Club and Aberdeen Country Club. All seven of the above named rounds are highly enjoyable in their own right, designed and executed to not punish the so-so players.

Best yet? Their price tags often reflect that approach.

BUDDYING IT UP
You don’t come to South Carolina’s northeast corridor with a group of friends without letting some competitive juices flow.

And if bragging rights and/or side bets are your crew’s thing, we’ve got a perfect four pack capable to giving you exactly what you need.

World Tour Golf Links has been renowned for its dramatic approach to the biggest names in course design. The replica course honors the likes of Augusta National and St. Andrews in a way no other course has.

River Hills Country Club has rare elevation changes to this area and moved a lot of dirt to make it happen.

Arrowhead Country Club is pristine start to finish and has three different nines that couldn’t look much different from each other inside of its available acreage.

And Tradition Golf Club is a tourists’ fave along the south end that simply doesn’t miss any details.

We mention those four in particular because of their allure to stretching the imagination (for the imaginative, at least) and giving players different looks at the same exact hole from start to finish. We think they’re tailor-made for those competitive juices.

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