Myrtle Beach: Still the king

True Blue Plantation Golf Club is at the opposite end of the Strand, at its southern tip. Once dubbed "Golf’s Heaven and Hell," the course was softened through a series of changes by the architect, the late Mike Strantz. It is still one of the Strand’s best with its hidden greens and visually deceptive bunkers. Strantz filled in waste areas, removed mounding from a number of greens and filled in bunkers. "Frankly, if this course were private, it would be fine just the way it (was)," Head Professional Danny Gore told TravelGolf.com. "But, in our business repeat play is just too important."

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Caledonia Fish and Golf Club was Strantz’first solo design and his predecessor to True Blue. Caledonia, the Roman name for Scotland, wraps through an old rice plantation and fish and hunt club. Though one of Strantz’ least controversial courses, it’s won a ton of awards from various golf magazines. A very playable course, Caledonia has a nice mix of holes; it’s one of those courses that can play difficult or easy, depending on pin placement and which tee box you hit from.

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Tiger’s Eye Golf Links: There’s not a flat putt on this Tim Cates-designed course at the Ocean Ridge Plantation, which usually finds its way onto various top-10 lists at the beach. The course has 60 feet of elevation changes – stunning for the Lowcountry – as it makes its way through coastal Carolina terrain. Cates, a left-hander, has stuck most of the hazards to the right of fairways and greens, and there is water on 13 holes. Play this course several times before thinking about shooting a low score.

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The Barefoot Resort was one of the most ambitious golf projects ever to hit the area, sporting courses designed by Davis Love III, Tom Fazio, Pete Dye and Greg Norman. Of the four, the Love and Fazio courses are best. The Love course was said to be the sixth best new course in the country by Golf Digest in 2000, mainly because it had the best piece of property, winding through the ruins of an old plantation. It showcases touches of Pinehurst No. 2 – Davis being a Carolinian by birth – and has elevated greens, tree-lined fairways and tough par-4s.

The Fazio course has his usual trademarks, the sweeping fairways, signature bunkering and traditional green complexes, although it also has a par-4 13^th hole with a green to the left of the fairway, on the far side of a small pond, and another at the end of the fairway. The unprotected green to the right has severe sloping that holds only the most accurate shots.

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