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
Visitors welcome
Greensboro / Winston-Salem
Visitors welcome
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
Visitors welcome
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
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Visitors welcome
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
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Designed by Clyde Johnston (as a tribute to Donald Ross).
Visitors welcome
Hilton Head Island
Visitors welcome
Myrtle Beach
Private club
Ashville
Visitors welcome
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
Visitors welcome
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
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Dan Maples
Visitors welcome
Calabash
Dan Maples
Visitors welcome
Charleston
Bob Spence
Visitors welcome
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
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
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Pinehurst
Visitors welcome
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
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Donald Ross
Visitors welcome
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)
Visitors welcome
Charleston
Visitors welcome
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
Tom Fazio
Visitors welcome
Greenville
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Ellis Maples
Visitors welcome
Pinehurst
Ellis Maples
Visitors welcome
Charleston
Visitors welcome
Charleston
Visitors welcome
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
Original design by Seth Raynor & Charles Banks (1925); modifications by Tom Doak (1998) and Jim Urbina (2016).
Tournaments:
European Tour: 2021 marks the 50th and last season of the world renowned European Tour, launched in April 1972 at the Spanish Open. From 2022 the Tour will be sponsored by Dubai-based global supply chain and ports operator DP World, and will be known as the DP World Tour.
South African Open: December 2021 events in South Africa have again been impacted by the Covid pandemic. The South African Open (Dec 2-5) will no longer be played as a DP World Tour event, and the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 9-12) has been cancelled.
Who's Who:
Bernhard Langer: at age 64, Langer collected a record sixth Charles Schwab Cup, the only player to have won the season-long points chase more than twice. He also topped the PGA Tour Champions money-list for the 11th time out of a possible 13 since 2008.
Carlota Ciganda: the five-time Solheim Cup star was delighted to record a fourth Ladies European Tour win in her home national championship, the Ladies Spanish Open.
Lee Elder: Trailblazer, Ryder Cup player, four-time PGA Tour winner and eight-time Senior PGA Tour winner, Lee Elder died on November 28, aged 87. In 1975 he became the first African American golfer to play in the Masters tournament, and in so doing provided one of the pivotal moments in the history of professional golf.
Golf World Top 100: Best Golf Courses in Europe. From France to Spain to the Netherlands and Norway, the Golf World Top 100 panel reveals the places you have to play (published 20 October 2021).
New 27-hole golf complex to be built in southern Belgium
A new golf complex in southern Belgium, close to the border with Luxembourg, will start construction in June 2021.
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club "makes its tournament debut with the hosting of the Italian Open on the European Tour" by Richard Humphreys
Gamble Sands opens short course:
David McLay Kidd’s 14-hole QuickSands short course has opened for play at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Washington.
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