The Dunes Golf & Beach Club

Located in North Myrtle Beach The Dunes Golf & Beach Club is one of the oldest courses in Myrtle Beach, if not The oldest course in South Carolina, opening its doors in 1949. This fantastic championship golf course was designed by none other than the legendary Robert Trent Jones Snr and has a rich history of many golfing accolades over the decades. The course has recently been upgraded and improved by fittingly Robert Trent Jones, after completing the changes and improvements Trent had to say the following “The golf course my father, Robert Trent Jones, created for the Dunes Club in 1948 is one of his true masterpieces. It is a challenging championship course designed on ideal land for golf; sandy, rolling terrain along the ocean with magnificent trees framing the fairways. It has been one of the highlights of my career to have had the opportunity to restore and enhance the original design intent. The course is now positioned for play by today’s golfers.”

From the back tees the Golf course stretches to 7,450 yards, which sounds long, but in today’s standards is par-for-the-course and most of the top Championship courses are all around this figure.  Over the years the golf course has hosted numerous events including the Women’s USGA, PGA Senior Tour Championship, PGA Professional National Championship, PGA Tour qualifying course. Each of the holes here has its own nickname or descriptive name to portray them in their very best light, the most famous of all and in some eyes is one of the most Legendary holes in World Golf is Hole # 13, measuring just short of 600 yards this Signature Hole “Waterloo” is a tight tree-lined severe double right dog-leg with Lake Singleton coming into play. The lake runs adjacent to the fairway for over half of the length of the hole before a raised undulating green guarded by no less than three large bunkers two at the front apron and one at the back.

Without a shadow of a doubt, The Dunes Club is one of the great’s that the USA has to offer and should be on everyone’s bucket-list of golf courses to play.