Don’t let the name fool you: The Resort Course at Grand Dunes is the hardest of the Myrtle Beach golf courses you can play on your Myrtle Beach golf vacation.
Designed by the Roger Rulewich Group, whose namesake was Robert Trent Jones, Sr.'s disciple, the course anchors one of the area's most expensive residential communities and enjoys a site along and above the Intracoastal Waterway, sporting the most elevation change of all the Myrtle Beach golf courses in this flat, low-lying region.
The back nine plays along this cliff-like precipice, exposed to wind, and there are high mounds and dunes topped with thick, Scottish-style grasses, making this Myrtle Beach’s answer to Whistling Straits.
The front side is no picnic, either, featuring several large lakes that force water into play on the first seven holes. And, many of the hazards sit below the level of the fairways, invisible from the tee.
That’s not to say the course is unfair. There are plenty of red-and-white checked warning flags marking these trouble spots that I, for one, appreciated. Now if only I took advantage of them...
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