Top Myrtle Beach Golf Courses

Courtesy of Tommy Braswell of The Post and Courier

South Carolina was well represented in Golfweek's 2008 Best Courses that were announced this week. The publication breaks the top 100 rankings into Modern (1960 to the present) and Classic (before 1960).

Cypress Point in Pebble Beach remained at the top of the Classic list. It opened in 1928 and was designed by Alister Mackenzie. Yeamans Hall Club moved up two spots to No. 40. The Dunes Club in Myrtle Beach slipped one spot to No. 94.

Joining Cypress Point in the top 10 Classic courses were: Pine Valley, Shinnecock Hills, Pebble Beach, Merion-East, Oakmont, National Golf Links, Crystal Downs, Prairie Dunes and Augusta National.

The No. 1 Modern course was Sand Hills in Mullen, Neb., built in 1995 by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. Palmetto courses on the Modern list included: No. 20, The Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, down four spots from 2007; No. 33 Harbour Town on Hilton Head Island, down four places; No. 46 Long Cove Club on Hilton Head Island, down seven; No. 75 Cassique at Kiawah Island Club, down four spots; No. 86 Old Tabby at Spring Island, up three places; No. 91 Secession Golf Club in Beaufort, up four spots; No. 95 Musgrove Mill in Clinton, down 16 spots; and No. 100 Caledonia Golf & Fish Club in Pawleys Island, down two spots.

In addition to Sand Hills, the rest of the top 10 Modern courses were: Pacific Dunes, Whistling Straits, Friar's Head, Pete Dye Golf Club, Bandon Dunes, Kinloch Golf Club, The Golf Club, Shadow Creek and Muirfield Village.

South Carolina had 10 make the publication's top courses you can play — Ocean Course, Harbour Town, Caledonia, Dunes, May River (Bluffton), Tidewater (North Myrtle Beach), True Blue (Pawleys Island), TPC at Myrtle Beach, Wild Dunes-Links (Isle of Palms) and Barefoot Landing-Love (North Myrtle Beach).


Read more at Charleston's The Post and Courier.