Best of the Beach

Play four courses that made Golf Magazine’s list of the “Top 100 Courses You Can Play,” the Dunes Golf & Beach Club, Caledonia Golf & Fish Club, Barefoot Resort – Davis Love III, and True Blue Plantation, and stay in a luxurious 3-bedroom suite Grand Atlantic Resort.

The Dunes Golf & Beach Club is a Robert Trent Jones masterpiece. The Dunes Club is ranked as one of the “Top 100 Courses in America” by both Golf Digest and GOLF Magazine. The Dunes Golf & Beach Club has hosted many tournaments including six Senior Tour Golf Championships, the Women’s U.S. Open and the finals of the PGA Tour Qualifying School. The par 5 13th hole, nicknamed “Waterloo,” stretches 590 yards and wraps around Lake Singleton. “Waterloo” was named by Sports IllustratedTM as one of the “Best 18 Holes in America” and by Golf DigestTM as one of the “100 Best Holes in America.”

Caledonia Golf & Fish Club also appears on both Golf Digest’s and GOLF Magazine’s Top 100 Courses lists. The course embodies all the attributes of a traditional lowcountry country club. From the stately plantation-style clubhouse, to the grand live oaks and magnolias that surround the greens and fairways, you will be impressed with the course design and maintenance of this stately course.

Carolina native and PGA Tour professional Davis Love, III, may have solidified his reputation as a course designer with this creation at Barefoot Resort. Love built a course that is unique, visually striking and fun to play. The course even incorporates a replica of ruins from a 17th Century plantation house, similar to ruins found along holes in Scotland and Ireland.

There is little subtle about True Blue, a fantastic Mike Strantz design. As one of the more challenging layouts on the Grand Strand, True Blue features trying rough with serrated sandy areas that present a remarkable contrast to the immaculate greens, tees, and fairways. True Blue features decent elevation changes that make this remarkable course u