Murrell's Inlet

One of the most notable golf courses in Myrtle Beach is south in Murrell's Inlet. Murrell's Inlet is home to the Tournament of Players Club, which opened February of 1999. It highlighted the area's shift to more high-end golfing. This type of course, designed by Tom Fazio and Lanny Wadkins; set the standard for the next three years for golf course design in Myrtle Beach. It is a classic looking course with tight fairways and well-guarded greens. As is the tradition in the low country it features water holes and wetlands. Towering pine trees provide a peaceful place to play this very challenging course. TPC was the site for the final round of the 1999 Dupont World Amateur Championship and was a finalist of the Toyota National Golf Skills Challenge.

Another Murrell's Inlet Course is Wachesaw Plantation. Tom Fazio designed the course and when it opened in 1986, Golf Digest gave it the title of the number one course in Myrtle Beach. Located twenty minutes south of the Myrtle Beach International Airport Wachasaw is built on the site of a former rice plantation. Rolling greens, love grass and buff colored bunkers add to its beauty, as do the azaleas, which frame the greens. Wachesaw Plantation has been the site of four nationally-televised, professional golf tournaments on the LPGA Tour: the 1997 Susan G. Koman International, the 1998 and 1999 City of Hope Myrtle Beach Classic, and the 2000 Kathy Ireland/Greens Classic.

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