Pawleys Plantation Golf & Country Club

The 18-hole Pawleys Plantation Golf & Country Club in Pawleys Island, S.C. is a semi-private golf course that opened in 1988. 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," said course designer Jack Nicklaus. But he's quick to add, "as for beauty, on a scale from one to 10, it's pretty close to a 10." 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, 14th hole where you must negotiate the marsh off the tee shot to a split fairway just before the green; or the tremendous par-4, 18th hole that permits only a well placed drive down a narrow fairway bordered by marsh, sprawling oaks and pines.