If they’re good enough for prominent professional golfers, celebrities or charities, it’s also a pretty good sign that you might want to check them out for yourself on your next Myrtle Beach golf getaway. Here are four Grand Strand golf courses that have emerged over the years as such “go-to” venues.
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<a href="http://www.mbn.com/courses/dye-at-barefoot-resort" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Dye Course at Barefoot Resort</a> – Along with the Love and Fazio courses, The Dye Course was one of three designs at Barefoot Resort &amp; Golf that served as prominent backdrops in hosting Golf Channel’s “Big Break Myrtle Beach” in 2014. The national prominence such network exposure offered comes on the heels of The Dye Course having just hosted, for the 13th time, the Hootie &amp; The Blowfish Monday After the Masters Celebrity Pro-Am that annually attracts more than 6,000 spectators, a “who’s who” list of sports and entertainment celebrities, and an annual visit from ESPN’s “Mike &amp; Mike in the Morning” for a live remote broadcast of its show.
<a href="http://www.mbn.com/courses/grand-dunes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grande Dunes Resort Club</a> – For years this Roger Rulewich design hosted the Make-A-Wish Classic, which was wide recognized as one of the Grand Strand’s most prominent celebrity charity golf tournaments and benefited children with life-threatening medical conditions. Other celebrity tournaments would soon follow, including the Know Your Score event in 2013 to fight prostate cancer and the 2 Live Beyond charity tourney spearheaded by Major League Baseball star Reggie Sanders and National Football League veteran Andre Davis.
On the competitive front, Grande Dunes Resort Club just hosted the 2015 Carolinas PGA Section Championship, and in 2014 co-hosted the PGA of America’s most prominent event for club professionals, the PGA Professional National Championship (PNC), along with …
<a href="http://www.mbn.com/courses/the-dunes-golf-and-beach-club" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Dunes Golf &amp; Beach Club</a> – As primary host of the 2014 PGA PNC, The Dunes Club was showcased most prominently in Golf Channel’s extensive coverage of the four-day event. One of the Grand Strand’s oldest golf courses that opened for play in 1947, this Robert Trent Jones design would quickly become a popular venue for a variety of PGA Tour, Senior PGA Tour, women’s, amateur, national and state events over the ensuing decades.
Looking ahead, The Dunes Club is set to host the 2016 Southern Amateur and the 2017 USGA Women’s Amateur Four-Ball.
<a href="http://www.mbn.com/courses/tournament-player-club" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TPC Myrtle Beach</a> – The Grand Strand’s only venue rated 5 stars in Golf Digest’s “Places to Play,” TPC Myrtle Beach rose quickly to prominence by hosting the 2000 Senior PGA Tour Championship, won that year by Tom Watson. The Tom Fazio design has also hosted the Flight Winners’ Playoff for the Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship (2012-2014) and major NCAA golf events over the years, including the General Jim Hackler Invitational. The Coastal Carolina University men’s golf team, which counts PGA Tour star Dustin Johnson as its most prominent alumnus, called TPC Myrtle Beach home for many years.

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