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For generations, many South Carolinians have lived in the "upstate" region and owned vacation homes at the beach, a trip of no more than 3 1/2 hours from even the farthest regions of the state. In fact, Pawleys Island, just south of Myrtle Beach, claims to be America's first beach resort. Whether it is or isn't, Pawleys is just one of many golf happy areas of South Carolina, led by its neighbor immediately to the north, Myrtle Beach, which even after some pruning in the golf course ranks, can still boast about 100 layouts in the area. Farther down the coast, in the Low Country, Kiawah Island (10 golf courses within 12 miles or so) can boast of arguable the best in the state, the fabled Ocean Course by Pete Dye. But don't ignore upstate, where Greenville, a sophisticated burgh can lay claim to top 5 Chanticleer, one of Greenville Country Club's two outstanding tracks. We could go on about South Carolina golf (and reference Bluffton, Beaufort, Aiken, Columbia and other areas); we encourage you to go see for yourself.
Best Classic and Modern Golf Courses in South Carolina
The South Carolina Golf Rating Panel, of which I am a member, has weighed in with its annual updated ratings of the best golf courses in the state, and while there are few surprises, the way they...
Wachesaw Plantation Hits Its Stride
When it first opened in the mid-1980s, Wachesaw Plantation in Murrells Inlet, SC, joined DeBordieu Colony in Georgetown as the only organized golf communities on Myrtle Beach’s South Strand. A few...
What A Blast: The Shot of My Life
When I was 16, I had my first – and only – hole in one, a 127-yard shot on the golf course where I learned to play in New Jersey. From the elevated tee, I tracked it all the way into the hole. Until...
The Good, Bad and Ugly at Pawleys Plantation
I made a quick trip to Pawleys Island last week for a golf outing in Charleston, an hour away. I stayed at my wife’s and my condo in Pawleys Plantation. After playing the late, great Mike Strantz’s opus at...
Your Chance for Golfing Immortality
The World Amateur, held annually in Myrtle Beach, SC, has been the largest golf tournament anywhere over the last 37 years. If you have a legitimate golf handicap, you can join the 3,500 golfers on...
Golf Community Preaches What It Practices
I spent most of my corporate communication career focused on employee communication, where the return on investment was often larger than for marketing or public relations. How so, you ask? The answer...
A Beautiful Golf Home at $86 Per Square Foot? In this Market? Not Possible
As the pandemic causes people to flee the cities for more rural locations, inquiries and visits are way up in many areas of the Southeast. “It has been an amazing market here for last several...
Golf Community Marketing Goes Zoom
Businesses are doing their best to adapt to the pandemic, and golf community marketing departments are no different. President of Administration Diana Peters at Woodside Plantation in Aiken, SC, was kind...
My Favorite Modern Courses in South Carolina
A couple of weeks ago, I posted my choices for the best “classic” courses in South Carolina (scroll down two articles below this one). Here are my choices for the best “modern” courses in the state. (Note:...
My Votes are in…for best courses in SC
As a member of the South Carolina Golf Rating Panel, I am asked to vote every year for the best golf courses in the state. Some years we vote for the best public courses, some years for the best...
Myrtle Beach Defines a Decade
We humans tend to celebrate round numbers. I write this mere hours after the ball dropped in Times Square in front of tens of thousands of people celebrating a specific cycle of 365 days. The...
Senior Moment: Green fees for old folks higher than for others
In more than 12 years of visiting hundreds of golf course web sites, I had never come across one that published higher rates for seniors than for everyone else. But earlier this week, while doing...