Myrtle Beach Golfmaster Blog

The Grand Strand courses stretch over 120 miles North to South..Brunswick County, NC to Georgetown, SC.  We have varying topography over this area.  The south part of our island…yes…Myrtle Beach is an island with bays to the north and south..the ocean to the east and the ‘big ditch”  the intercoastal waterway to the west…we are surrounded by water.

Oh yes..I started out ..the south part of our island is very historical with former rice and indigo plantations from the Revolutionary War.  The ‘Swamp Fox’  Francis Marion and his second in command..Peter Horry..ran the British all over the lowlands of South Carolina.  The area from Myrtle Beach to Georgetown is called the Waccamaw Neck as it is formed by a peninsula.  The old plantations have been revived as golf resorts with their marshes, salt water tidal bays, Tall oaks with dripping moss and thousand year old cypress trees surrounding the fairways…these courses are known as the Carolina low country courses.

The center beach area is in Horry County..as you guessed from Peter Horry.  Much of the area is sandy flat country with pine trees.  This area in the 1900’s produced naval stores of tar, pitch and wood boards.  As you move north into North Myrtle you start to see some rolling hills with varying elevations.  Brunswick County, NC courses are 25 miles north of Myrtle Beach.  The widest variety of courses can be found here.  Many courses are on salt water bays, rivers, on or near the Atlantic Ocean or as in Bald Head Island’s case in and surrounded by the ocean. 

GMJ