Surfside Beach

Accommodations:

Plantation Resort

Location:

Surfside Beach.  The Plantation Resort is conveniently located just South of Myrtle Beach with all the package golf courses conveniently located nearby.  It is also located close to the airport making those arrival and departure rounds that much easier.  You will be staying in a 2- bedroom condominium that features full kitchen with range, refrigerator and microwave, full living area and two baths.  The package is based on double occupancy for three nights and three rounds of golf.  Includes green fees, cart fees, daily breakfast and taxes. 

Courses:

TPC of Myrtle Beach
Designer Tom Fazio, in concert with Lanny Watkins took full advantage of nature’s offerings to create this course.  They utilized water features, environmental grasses and rolling terrain to give the TPC its one-of-a-kind look.  Former home of the PGA Senior Tour Ingersol-Rand Senior Championship, this course is drawing raves from both the professional and amateur golfers.  Ranked 9th in 1999 Best New Upscale Public Course by Golf Digest and Golf & Travel lists it in their Top 10 of Myrtle’s Greatest Hits.  Surrounded by an untouched nature preserve, the course is so quiet; you think you were in the middle of a remote jungle.  The signature hole is #17, 193-yard, par 3, featuring an elevated tee and a green surrounded on three sides by water.

Wicked Stick
John Daly brings his “grip it and rip it” style to golf course design and created a wide-open, fun course.  Playing this course it almost like going to an amusement park and letting everything go on a roller coaster.  Teaming with architect Clyde Johnston, they developed a stunning links course featuring expansive dunes fields, large sand waste areas with gorse-like vegetation, deep pot bunkers and strategically place water hazards.  The course measures 7001 yards from the championship tees, with a select number of “Daly Signature Tees” offering additional length and difficulty.  The signature holes are #7 and #11.  Hole #7 is a 265-yard, par 3 and hole #11 is a 611-yard, par 5.  These holes share a split green.  Normal people play from the forward tees.  After your round, relax in the Long Ball Lounge…guess who it’s named after?


Blackmoor Golf Club
Situated on the historic Longwood Plantation along the majestic Waccamaw River, this tranquil course exist in harmony with flowing lakes, moss-draped oaks, lofty pines and the ever-changing cypress. It is not surprising to see a wild turkey or a graceful deer or even an alligator.  The layout features lots of mounding bordering the fairways and requires careful study, as several blind shots will challenge your course management skills.  Unparalleled fairways focus your attention on one hole at a time.  This is Gary Player’s only designed course in Myrtle Beach and was named “Myrtle Beach Golf Course on the Year” in 2001.

Wachesaw Plantation East
You can challenge the site where both the Senior PGA Tour and the LPGA Tour found great challenges.  This Clyde Johnston-designed course is cut out of a forest, so trees are a definite factor on every hole.  But the woods make you feel you’re in the middle of nowhere and the only ones on the course, but with the computer on the cart, you will not get lost.  The greens are slightly contoured and there are also twenty-six lakes located on the course.  As you can imagine, every hole presents its own challenge.  Hole #7, a 580-yard, par 5, requires a tee shot over water onto a dogleg fairway that veers to the right and then to the left.  There is no chance of clearing the trees on the dogleg, so plan on reaching the green in four shots.  Or play the hole from the forward tees and enjoy yourself.  

Whispering Pines Golf Course
Here’s another chance to play a traditional, old style course with no houses, no condos, just you and the nature setting.  As a “Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary”, this track offers a serene environment only ½ mile from the Atlantic.  You will hear airplanes though, you only a driver and a 5 iron from the airport on #16.  Don’t hit a sky ball, please.  The most demanding hole on the Ken Dye and Baxter Spann course is #12, a 567-yard, par 5 featuring a scenic water hazard flowing the entire length of the fairway and of course everything slopes towards the water.

Prices:
Five Rounds & Four Nights Starting at: $503.50

 

Design and Concept by: VNA Productions