In the list of great Myrtle Beach golf courses, there is one that always comes up. It is the Grande Dunes Resort Course. The Grande Dunes is a golf facility located between U.S. 17 and the Carolina Bays Parkway. While only seven years old, it has already left its mark as one of the best places to stay in the Mecca of Golf; Myrtle Beach.

This course comes highly regarded. It was named to the top 100 courses in America by Golf Digest in 2003 and was also named as one of the top 50 private courses to play in the country. Several PGA and LPGA pros have also found this to be an excellent course to play, including John Daly, winner of the 1991 PGA Championship and 1995 U.S. Open Championship.

Stretching for an astonishing 7,618 yards, it is the longest golf course on the Grand Strand. It is also one of those rare courses where every hole is an experience, with its 14th hole being the best. Not a simple par 3, the 14th hole runs 244 yards from the back tee and 158 from the white tee. Its tee box overlooks the water and only best golfers are able to beat the ravine and land on the two-tiered green without hitting the bunker.

Green fees for the course range between $95 and $170 depending on when you play.

The course was recently threatened by wildfire in May of 2009. Thankfully, golf course employees were able to respond quickly and minimal damage was experienced on the course.

If you visit the Grand Strand, this is the Myrtle Beach golf course to try.

Myrtle Beach is possibly the best place to golf in all of North America. At this one location, there are dozens of great golf courses to play, many of which have been designed by legends of the game. To play in Myrtle Beach is to play in the mecca of golf. It is a pilgrimage every golf lover should make at some point in their lives. To play a game of golf at some courses in Myrtle Beach is to play in golf heaven.

It was not always this way for Myrtle Beach. In fact, it wasn’t until 1927 when the first golf course in Myrtle Beach opened that the entire region took a different turn and became the one-stop shop for the golf enthusiast. Myrtle Beach has grown from that first golf course and become the golf capital of the world. In all, there are 120 golf courses, where 4.2 million rounds of golf were played last year, an increase of 500,000 over 2007 alone!

What was the golf course that started it all? It was the Pine Lakes Country Club, the oldest course in Myrtle Beach. In the 1920s, several businessmen got together to begin building an upscale beach tourist destination called Arcady. This would eventually become known as the Pine Lakes Country Club and Ocean Forest Hotel when it opened in 1927. This golf course has seen many great players, including the legendary Sam Snead, regarded as possibly the greatest golfer who has ever lived. Even the high profile families of the Vanderbilts and Rockerfellers have played there, as has Gene Sarazen, who has a plaque dedicated to him on the 10th hole.

The club has a strong Scottish tradition, and you can even get a lesson in the history of the club from a starter in a kilt, who will tell you everything you want to know before you tee off. For its history and its legend, this course has become a favorite of golfers in Myrtle Beach, even 81 years after it opened.

Built upon natural dunes, and using freshwater lakes and rolling fairways, legendary architect Robert White, who also was the first president of the PGA, created a course that has been played by generations of golfers, all of whom were left in awe of this course.

While it has gone through many renovations, the Granddaddy of Myrtle Beach golf continues to be the golf course every golfer must play at least once in their lives.