I am familiar with Wachesaw and its private and excellent Tom Fazio
Last week, I teed it up with a few of Wachesaw’s club members and asked if any were familiar with the golf cottage for sale. “Needs a little cosmetic work,” one told me, “but it is in great shape. Owner just wants to get rid of it.”
The 7th hole at Tom Fazio's Wachesaw Plantation, a par 3, is among the toughest one-shot holes on the entire Grand Strand of Myrtle Beach.
With the nation’s official unemployment rate over 9%, it seems almost insensitive to talk about opportunities to purchase a vacation home. But lost in the mass media’s fascination with negatives is the fact that almost 91% of the employable are earning a wage, and many of them have enough assets and confidence to consider a vacation home, even one connected to a private golf club. The recession has affected the price of real estate, to be sure, but it also has reduced –- in some cases, significantly -– the costs of golf membership. Consider Wachesaw’s “national” membership at just $850 (application and initiation fees) and dues of just $220 per month (full family) that grants all the privileges of a local membership. (Note: The food minimum is $400 per year, small enough to be eaten up in just a few meals by any family with normal appetites). The $220 per month equals about three or four green fee payments at local public golf courses. All you need to do to qualify for Wachesaw’s national membership is demonstrate that you pay your taxes to jurisdictions outside Horry and Georgetown counties.
There are many such bargains in real estate and golf club membership up and down the Grand Strand of Myrtle Beach and, indeed, throughout the south, and not just for golf vacation homes. Calling all golf retirement wannabes: A one-story brick home with three bedrooms and two baths that looks out on a pond and the 2nd tee at Wachesaw is listed for just $449,900. A few miles away, at the semi-private Pawleys Plantation, you will find patio homes that begin in the low $300s (and golf villas in the mid $100s). Even at DeBordieu Colony, whose community stretches from Highway 17 to the Atlantic Ocean and whose prices have traditionally been the highest on the South Strand, you can find nice single-family homes within walking distance of the beach starting in the $500s.
For more information about Wachesaw Plantation and other Myrtle Beach golf communities, or to be connected with one of our pre-qualified local realtors, please contact me.
Homes in Wachesaw Plantation are more sharply priced than in the other two gated communities with private golf courses on the southern end of the Grand Strand.
