Pawleys Plantation Golf & Country Club

The 18-hole Pawleys Plantation Golf & Country Club in Pawleys Island, SC is a semi-private golf course that opened in 1988. Designed by Jack Nicklaus, Pawleys Plantation Golf & Country Club measures 7026 yards from the longest tees and has a slope rating of 140 and a 74.8 USGA rating. The course features 4 sets of tees for different skill levels. The greens are tif eagle and the fairways are bermuda.

With subtle greens enveloped by sand bunkers, challenging fairways dotted with water and unique obstacles evident on every hole, Pawleys Plantation is a player's course that demands strategy, ingenuity and above all, concentration. "You'll have to think your way around this course," Nicklaus advises. But he's quick to add,"as for beauty, on a scale from one to ten, it's pretty close to a ten."

A few of the course highlights include: the par 3, third hole requiring a forced carry over water from tee to green; the par 5, fourteenth hole where you must negotiate the marsh off the tee shot to a split fairway just before the green; or the tremendous par 4, eighteenth hole that permits only a well-placed drive down a narrow fairway bordered by marsh, sprawling oaks and pines.