Although it no longer enjoys a monopoly on the high-end golf scene, The Dunes Golf and Beach Club is still one of the Myrtle Beach golf courses that’s a “must play” on a Myrtle Beach golf vacation and the best classic course on The Grand Strand.
This Robert Trent Jones, Sr., design from 1948 has been the site of dozens of tournaments, including the seniors’ Tour Championship and the U.S. Women’s Open, and regularly appears on many magazines’ top-100 lists. It’s technically a private club, but access is available to guests of certain hotels such as the Myrtle Beach Marriott at Grand Dunes.
The mature, tree-lined layout is one of the Myrtle Beach golf courses offering ocean views and, despite its age, the superintendent had done a fine job preserving Jones’ trademark style featuring long tees, flashed fairway bunkers and massive, elevated greens.
In my opinion, the course’s Alligator Alley, the tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth holes that weave through lakes and marshland, is the best four-hole stretch among all Myrtle Beach golf courses. The capper is the thirteenth, a horseshoe-shaped par-5 that hugs Singleton Lake and pioneered the concept of a “signature hole.”
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