Tiger's Eye is king of the cats at Ocean Ridge Plantation.

Golfers willing to explore a little on their Myrtle Beach golf vacation would do well to find their way to Ocean Ridge Plantation, a four-course complex (soon to be five) located just eight miles from the South Carolina Border.

Of its feline-themed courses, Lion’s Paw, Panther’s Run, Leopard’s Chase and Tiger’s Eye, the latter is the one to play first.

Nature itself doesn’t provide nearly as dramatic a show here compared to the famous Myrtle Beach golf courses such as Rivers Edge or Tidewater, but architect Tim Cate crafted an aesthetically pleasing course amid coastal marshland and natural waste areas and used beach-style bunkers and coquina boulders to line the edges of the water hazards. Meanwhile, 60 feet of elevation change and a pristine pine forest add intrigue to undulating terrain that is still unblemished by housing.

At the ninth hole, players hit from 60 feet above the fairway, and then across water that fronts the green. This is just one of five front-nine holes requiring such carries. The par threes, highlighted by the 165-yard, island-green 11^th, are especially strong. Combined with many greens that undulate dramatically, this is one tiger that is fun attempting to tame.

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