Myrtle Beach Area Golf Courses

Golf Courses & Clubs

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With the opening of Shaftesbury Glen Golfer Fish Club in 2001, the Myrtle Beach area reached the end of one of the most incredible periods of golf course construction in the game’s history. Now the region is experiencing an even more significant development.

Prior to 1985, the three-county coastal region around Myrtle Beach known as The Grand Strand was home to fewer than 40 golf courses. At about the same time, the game of golf began to attract millions of new players. With plenty of available land and a nearly frost-free climate with delightful spring and fall months, plus advances in course-construction technology, The Grand Strand was perfectly situated to enter a “golf boom” of unprecedented proportions.

More than 80 new golf courses have been built in the Myrtle Beach area since 1985, resulting in an unrivaled number of 123 championship courses in a single vacation destination. Having now built more courses than anywhere else on Earth, Myrtle Beach is determined to make the quality of Grand Strand golf even more renowned than its quantity.

Nearly all of the venerable “senior” courses in the area have been completely renovated or substantially refurbished in recent years. In addition, many layouts built in the late 1980s and early 1990s have been likewise improved with new hybrid grasses and sophisticated drainage systems. The result is a very high consisteney of golf course quality among the 123 choices available to every Grand Strand player.

The local commitment to a quality golf experience for every Myrtle Beach area visitor is also evident off the course. Many of the region’s premier resorts and hotels have been enlarged or upgraded with contemporary’ decors and state-of-the-art amenities. Major Grand Strand theaters now book ihe biggest names in live entertainment and all have nightly house shows. Also open year-round are new and enlarged shopping malls and more than 1.000 restaurants which feature fresh local seafood among other dining delights. About the only thing that hasn’t changed is the Myrtle Beach tradition of hospitality. The friendly folks who work along The Grand Strand appreciate your business and want to make sure that you’ll come back again.

So when you’re planning your next golf vacation, keep this in mind: Myrtle Beach still has more of everything you could want and everything here keeps getting even better.