I was just wondering if forum members can remember the first course they ever played while visiting Myrtle Beach??
For myself.... it was Oyster Bay in the fall of 1995!! I fell in love with Myrtle Beach and have been taking fall golf trips with my buddies ever since!! It will be interesting to see some of the answers and if these courses are still open.
My first trip was late April 1983. My wife and I dropped off our two young children with their grandparents in DC and we headed south to the Strand. My first course was Pine Lakes as I wanted to play the oldest course first. The experience did not disappoint. I enjoyed the old layout far more than the revised layout of today. The 2nd course on the schedule was Surf Club. At that time it was not semiprivate and could be booked with all the hotel golf packages. For many years thereafter, I kept this one of the schedule as it was top shelf, old style golf course, always well conditioned. The other courses on the schedule that first year: Myrtlewood Pines, Arcadian Shores and Myrtle Beach National North. I was hooked with the first year experience. We began to make the spring trip an annual event. We have owned a townhome @ Brunswick Plantation since 2005, spending Jan - May, 10 days in the summer, and another 4-5 wks in the fall. We are heading south on 01/01!
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Well a little late to this thread, but my first was Sea Trail Jones Fourth of July weekend in 1990. I know Sea Trail has had its issues over the years, but back then, that was a fine layout in great condition and instantly made me wonder why I hadn't been in the area to play golf before. There haven't been too many years since then that I've missed a trip down--even squeezed one in last February before the pandemic issues started.
Crow Creek Oct 2008
My first experience was on Arcadian Shores. I was part of a gang staying at the Caravelle for a week of Grand Strand golf. It was the first of over 20 years as a vactioner and snowbird. I stayed most of the time in the Shore Drive area. Arcadian Shores was a real challenge. It housed two of the Sun News' Dream 18, Number Two and Number thirteen. Both holes required an approach over water and accurate shotmaking. Through the years I teed it up on 97 of the courses in North and South Carolina. Many are now history,but remain in my mind. Recently, I've been watching MB golf ambassador Charlie Rymer's Breaking Par on You Tube. He plays a hole on 66 of the Grand Strand courses. It really refreshed my memory.
Can't remember what it was called back then, but it's now the Hackler course, back in 1998.
Flattest greens I'd ever played, never had a putt that broke more than a couple inches.
Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle.
Skippy, Hackler was Quail Creek.
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Robber's Roost in 1974.
Indian Wells and Indigo Creek. At Indigo played with these 2 local putz that wanted to play in 2 hours, we were 3 holes ahead of closest people and it still wasn't good enough. They would be on the green putting while my BIL and I were hitting approach shots. I tried to hit them.
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For me, it was Robbers Roost, a course opened in 1968 or 1969 and was owned by the Tilghman family for most—if not all—of its operational life. They were the ones who ultimately decided to redevelop the valuable ocean-proximate land into a mixed-use community (residential, commercial, and town center), leading to the golf course's closure in 2003.
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