Carolinas
Golf in the Carolinas: blessed with warm temperatures and world-class golf courses, the Carolinas are a popular destination for both tourists and golfers alike. Some of the world’s best golf resorts and golf courses are located in both South and North Carolina. Here is a rundown on the best golf courses in Carolinas. To make the most of your golfing trip, and to help in your planning, you can look up the location of the best courses in Carolinas on our customised maps.
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Myrtle Beach
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Myrtle Beach
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Southport, NC
George Cobb
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Myrtle Beach
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Myrtle Beach
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Myrtle Beach
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Myrtle Beach
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Calabash
Willard Byrd & Clyde Johnston
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Greensboro / Winston-Salem
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Myrtle Beach
Visitors welcome
Wilmington
Visitors welcome
Southport, NC
Fred Couples signature course, co-designed with Gene Bates.
(Closed in 2014)
Pinehurst
Arnold Palmer & Ed Seay
Visitors welcome
Charleston
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Charleston
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Hilton Head Island
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Hilton Head Island
An Arnold Palmer Signature Course.
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Rick Robbins
Visitors welcome
Charleston
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Norfolk / Virginia Beach
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Original design by Tom Weiskopf & Jay Morrish (1991); renovated in 2011 by Davis Love III (of Love Golf Design).
Private club
Hilton Head Island
Rees Jones designed the original layout (1986) and subsequent restoration (2007).
Closed (2017)
Hilton Head Island
Jack Nicklaus
Private club
Ashville
By arrangement
Pinehurst
Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw
Visitors welcome
Raleigh-Durham
Original design by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1957); redesign by his son Rees Jones (1994).
Restricted
Myrtle Beach
Original design by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1948) with later modifications by Roger Rulewich (1999) and Rees Jones (2013).
Visitors welcome
Charleston
Private club
Wilmington
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Hilton Head Island
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Myrtle Beach
Original design by Gene Hamm (1966); substantially redesigned by Thomas Walker (2006).
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Davis Love III
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Hilton Head Island
George W. Cobb
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Myrtle Beach
Designed by Clyde Johnston (as a tribute to Donald Ross).
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
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Myrtle Beach
Private club
Ashville
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Ashville
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Hilton Head Island
Husband/wife team of Pete & Alice Dye in collaboration with Jack Nicklaus.
(Closed in 2017)
Myrtle Beach
Willard Byrd & Clyde Johnston
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Myrtle Beach
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Hilton Head Island
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Charleston
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Charleston
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Charleston
Husband/wife team of Pete & Alice Dye
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Charleston
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Charleston
Jack Nicklaus, who returned in 2000 to renovate and lengthen his original design.
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Pinehurst
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Myrtle Beach
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Myrtle Beach
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Myrtle Beach
Rsrt guests only
Ashville
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Willard C. Byrd
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Pinehurst
Dan Maples
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
A Jack Nicklaus Signature Course
Private club
Hilton Head Island
Original design by husband/wife team Pete & Alice Dye (1982); modifications by Bobby Weed (2018).
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Dan Maples
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Original design by Donald Ross with later modifications by Kyle Franz (2013).
Rsrt guests only
Pinehurst
Arnold Palmer
Private club
Ashville
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Original design by Arnold Palmer & Francis "Frank" Duane (1973); redesigned by Arnold Palmer (1996).
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Arnold Palmer & Francis "Frank" Duane.
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Arnold Palmer & Francis "Frank" Duane.
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Tim Cate
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Tim Cate
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Willard Byrd
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Tim Cate
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Tim Cate
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Rsrt guests only
Ashville
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Private club
Greensboro / Winston-Salem
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Dan Maples
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Arthur Hills
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
George Fazio
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Private club
Augusta
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
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Hilton Head Island
Bob Cupp.
Visitors welcome
Charleston
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
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Calabash
Dan Maples
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Calabash
Dan Maples
Visitors welcome
Charleston
Bob Spence
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Pinehurst
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Original design by Donald Ross (1907), with subsequent modifications by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1974), Rees Jones (1998) and Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (2010).
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
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Pinehurst
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Pinehurst
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Pinehurst
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Rsrt guests only
Pinehurst
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Original design by Donald Ross with later modifications by John Fought (2004) and Kyle Franz (2016).
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Gary Player
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Gene Hamm
(Closed in 2010)
Pinehurst
Restricted
Wilmington
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Private club
Raleigh-Durham
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Private club
Charlotte
Original design by George Cobb (1961); modifications by Arnold Palmer (1986), and Tom Fazio (1997 & 2016).
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Tom Jackson
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Arnold Palmer
Visitors welcome
Charleston
An Arnold Palmer Signature Course.
Private club
Greensboro / Winston-Salem
Visitors welcome
Charlotte
Visitors welcome
Charlotte
Robert Trent Jones II (lead designer Ty Butler).
Private club
Augusta
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Original layout by George Cobb (1962) with a later redesign by Mark McCumber (1995). Completely redesigned by Davis Love III (2015).
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Original layout by George Cobb (1964) with later re-modelling by Clyde Johnston (1990). Completely redesigned by Pete Dye (2007).
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Willard Byrd
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Rees Jones
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Dan Maples
Private club
Greensboro / Winston-Salem
Donald Ross
Visitors welcome
Ashville
Robert Trent Jones II (lead designer Ty Butler), with input from Notah Begay III.
Visitors welcome
Charleston
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Pinehurst
Donald Ross
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Southport, NC
P.B. Dye
Visitors welcome
Southport, NC
Hale Irwin designed 18 of The Members Club's 27-holes, with Tim Cate weighing-in with the final nine.
Visitors welcome
Southport, NC
Tim Cate
Visitors welcome
Southport, NC
Nicklaus Design (project led by Mike Nicklaus)
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Charleston
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Pinehurst
Rees Jones
Visitors welcome
Greensboro / Winston-Salem
Championship course (1957) and Reynolds course (1959) designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Mike Strantz
Visitors welcome
Greensboro / Winston-Salem
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Tom Fazio & Lanny Wadkins
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Ron Garl
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Visitors welcome
Raleigh-Durham
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Private club
Ashville
Visitors welcome
Greenville
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Ellis Maples
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Pinehurst
Ellis Maples
Visitors welcome
Charleston
Visitors welcome
Charleston
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Myrtle Beach
Dan Maples
Visitors welcome
Wilmington
Original design by Donald Ross (1926); restored by John Fought (2014).
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Dan Maples
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Private club
Charleston
Tournaments:
2021 Opens: whether by accident or design, four of the top five mens’ Open Championships played in the British Isles occupy consecutive weeks in July: the Irish Open (1-4), Scottish Open (8-11), The Open (15-18) and Wales Open (22-25). The recently relaunched English Open is scheduled for early-August.
Hoag Classic: Ernie Els defends his title in this prestigious PGA Tour Champions event, played since 1991 at the Newport Beach Country Club, CA (Mar 5-7).
Who's Who:
Brooks Koepka: won his second Phoenix Open title, with a chip-in eagle at TPC Scottsdale’s short par-4 17th included in his final round.
Annika Sörenstam: the legendary Swede makes a return to the LPGA Tour in the Gainbridge LPGA, to be played at Lake Nona, her home club (Feb 25-28).
New course opens for play at Barnbougle
Bill Coore designs 14-hole layout with “sporty” holes on dune ridge above Lost Farm.
New links course planned for Scottish Highlands. Landowner aims to appoint a ‘world-class architect’ to work on site next to Cromarty Firth.
New Faldo Design layout in Vietnam set for summer completion. Nine holes of the course at Thanh Lanh are routed across a the lake peninsula.
Dundonald Links Scotland: Construction work is in progress on new practice facilities and course changes at Dundonald Links in Irvine, Scotland, as part of a £25 million investment by new owners Darwin Escapes that also includes the construction of a new clubhouse with rooms, plus eighteen lodges. Read more ...
R&A submits planning application for new golf facility in Glasgow.
Look up the Top Golf Courses in Scotland.
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