Myrtle Beach Top Designed Golf Courses

Myrtle Beach is one of the best golf destinations for top architect designed golf courses at a reasonable price. Most golf courses in Myrtle Beach have very reasonable green fees unlike the golf courses in Palm Springs or Phoenix-Scottsdale. With over 100 golf courses in Myrtle Beach, you can’t throw a golf club without hitting a golf celebrity designed course.

Some of the top golf celebrity designed courses are described below:

The Barefoot golf resort offers four top notch designed golf courses. The Love course, designed by Davis Love III is on a great piece of property that snakes its way through an old plantation. The golf course is 7,000 yards, and was ranked 38th in Golf Digest’s 2005-2006 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses.

The three other golf courses at Barefoot Resort were designed by Tom Fazio, George Norman and Pete Dye. The Dye Course is a private course, and is the most difficult golf course at Barefoot. It is over 7,300 yards, and contains a plethora of hidden bunkers and mounding.

The Dunes Golf and Beach Club was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. It is consistently rated one of America's top 100 golf courses, and is one of the most respected tracks in Myrtle Beach. It has hosted the Senior Tour Championships and the Women's U.S. Open.

The River's Edge Golf Club was designed by golf pro Arnold Palmer and Erik Larsen. The landscape is stunning; it runs along the Shallotte River and the surrounding marshes. The slope rating is 149 from the tips (one of the highest in Myrtle Beach), and will throw 10 forced carries at you, either off the tee, to the green or both. If you're a mid- to high-handicapper and try it from the back, you'll end up tired and frustrated with an unreliable or blown up scorecard.

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