We'll help you get to know Myrtle Beach Golf - three little words that mean a whole lot of fun for your golf vacation! At last count there are 120 Myrtle Beach golf courses just waiting for you to discover. When we moved to Myrtle Beach in 1985 count was about 80 golf courses - so you can see how sport has grown and grown some more. Golf in Myrtle Beach is always an adventure. You can choose from target courses to wide open fairways, links or traditional golf. Fairways lined with pine trees or old oaks draped in Spanish Moss. All top golf architects including Tom Fazio, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Pete Dye, The Shark and many other top names have given their best to make Myrtle Beach golf tops! Choose and golf Myrtle Beach favorite courses with us today! Back in 70's when you brought your group to Myrtle Beach choices were a little more restricted, Pine Lakes (The "Granddaddy") was always great to play and The Dunes took your breath away with it's ocean views. Azalea Sands, Possum Trot, Cypress Bay, Eagle Nest, Gator Hole were some other choices in those days. Since mid 80's that list has been added to dramatically.  Myrtle Beach south, which includes, Murrells Inlet, Litchfield, and Pawleys Island has absolutely exploded since 1980's. Litchfield Country Club had been around for a good number of years, as well as Sea Gull. When we first started going to Myrtle Beach south, you could shoot a canon down Route 17 and many of businesses still closed in winter. That was before advent of all new golf courses and influx of people moving to this wonderful area. About 1985, local powers that be started to develop some of their land that had set idle for so many years. Doc Lachicotte and a group from Clemson started with Wachesaw Plantation in Murrells Inlet. They brought in one of best designers, Tom Fazio and Wachesaw Plantation Club was dedicated in October of 1985. It is one of best private golf courses and communities to live. Check it out when you're in town. It's never too early to think about retiring to a golf course! And you can play this private course, if you opt to rent one of their golf cottages!

The 707 corridor in Murrells Inlet was developed a few years later, with Blackmoor opening and more recently TPC and World Tour.

Wachesaw East began about 1995 and quickly became known when LPGA picked their course for a tournament.

Jack Nicklaus came to town with his ideas for Pawleys Plantation about 1987. Today, it is recognized as a superior place to stay and play with outstanding views of marsh and lakes. Only players on course are those that stay either at Pawleys Plantation in one of their condos or at Sands Group of hotels. On Route 17, east side of highway.

Willbrook Plantation, Golf for Women love this course, it's been on their "Top 100 Fairways list for past three years. River Club ( just awarded **** 1/2 stars by Golf Digest in their Places to Play publication. Lots of water with Bent greens. ) and The Tradition were close behind. They're adjacent to Litchfield Country Club and all a good caliber of play.

Kings Highway, a north south route, west of 17 after Willbrook Plantation has become quite an area for superior courses. First came The Heritage. Larry Young built a beautiful course here, designed by Dan Maples with gorgeous views of Waccamaw River. Larry's busy up in Williamsburg these days. After The Heritage, Mike Strantz was busy designing True Blue and a little later Caledonia. Built by Doc Lachicotte and his group, these two courses were built in a way to preserve natural beauty of land. And would you believe that owners are not golfers. Rather they are sportsmen who love to fish and hunt. In fact if you notice going down entrance road to Caledonia on left there is still old shed (with some updated changes) where guys meet for their fishing, tall tales and cooking catch of day every Thursday. So Caledonia Fish and Golf Club makes perfect sense now. By way, if you haven't played Caledonia, you are missing one of most beautiful courses around. Grand old oak alley, views of rice fields and beyond to river. We sure miss old days though when "Ducks Unlimited" had their cookouts in old buildings at old Caledonia Plantation! And we recently had pleasure of attending a good old fashioned barbeque in that same old shed - not too long ago. Also, did you know that both Caledonia and True Blue serve a complimentary fish chowder on golf courses in winter? These are little tidbits that our golf specialists happen to know!

To make an analogy that most of you will be familiar with we will compare buying a new set of golf clubs to buying a new suit or dress, there are three ways you can go about this;

Option 1 - You go to a clothes shop and browse around until you see something fashionable and then buy it and hope it fits you OK and is comfortable. That is normal way most people buy their golf clubs.

Option 2 - You can go to same shops and try a few different designs, maybe even mix and match top and bottom of outfit, and eventually you will get something that fits OK but you may need to have altered, within leeway existing clothing gives on sizes and lengths and quite a lot of people will get a reasonable fit. This is very similar to custom fitting your new golf clubs, you are still limited to small number of shafts and flexes that that manufacturer provides and most will only extend or reduce by 1/2" and at most 2 degrees loft and lie. The shaft flexes will only be those stamped on side of shaft and are different for every shaft manufacturer, very rarely are these actually measured and you better match one of five or six flexes available. For a lot of people that just isn't enough, and this can still take many weeks.

Option 3 - If you wanted something that would last a long time and fitted really well from day one you would go to a bespoke outfitters, they would take all your measurements, find out exactly what you wanted item for, how often it would be used, etc. This would cost a relative fortune but gives great results every time. This is same as custom club building, but good news is, unlike clothing market this is normally less expensive, and rarely more expensive, than first option. So how does that work?

Well, almost all golf club heads, with very few exceptions - if any - are made in far east, mainly China. We believe that all heads are made there but several of big manufacturers just will not give a straight answer, try them!