The Bucket List: Four Nights on the Hammock Coast
5 Days
Bucket List Trip
$2500–$4000/person
4
Moderate
This itinerary collects the four courses that define the upper tier of Myrtle Beach golf. Each carries a distinct design identity, and together they cover the range of conditions the Lowcountry offers: marsh, oceanfront, pine forest, and former rice plantation. The routing moves between the central strand and the Pawleys Island corridor, with accommodations positioned to minimize windshield time on either end.
Fly into Myrtle Beach International (MYR) and check into the Marina Inn at Grande Dunes, which sits on the Intracoastal Waterway in the central strand. For an afternoon tee time, TPC Myrtle Beach is 15 minutes south.
The Dunes Club is the architectural landmark of Myrtle Beach golf. Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Drive 30 minutes south on Highway 17 to Pawleys Island and Caledonia Golf and Fish Club. Mike Strantz designed the course on a former rice plantation, and the approach through the live oak alley signals a property that operates at a different register from the volume courses on the main strand.
True Blue sits directly adjacent to Caledonia and shares the same Pawleys Island address, though the design could not be more different. Where Caledonia is intimate and strategic, True Blue is expansive and bold.
Check out and return to MYR, which is 30 to 40 minutes north depending on accommodation location. Flights from Myrtle Beach connect through Charlotte, Atlanta, and several Northeast hubs with reasonable frequency.
The Marina Inn at Grande Dunes provides a central base for Days 1 and 2. For groups willing to move, shifting to the Pawleys Plantation Resort area for Days 3 and 4 reduces driving to the southern courses. A single base at the Marina Inn works, but adds 30 minutes each way on the Pawleys Island days. A rental car is necessary; the distances between courses make rideshare impractical.
$2500–$4000
per person
5 Days
4 nights
4
courses included