Myrtle Beach

The numbers tell the story before anything else does. Roughly 759,000 visiting golfers arrive each year. They play more than three million rounds across approximately 90 courses stretched along a 60-mile coastal arc called the Grand Strand, from Little River at the North Carolina border to Georgetown at the mouth of Winyah Bay. The annual golf economic impact reaches $1.6 billion. No other destination in America operates at this scale. That scale is worth understanding because it shapes every aspect...