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Tidewater Golf Club & Plantation Ranked in Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play in 2007
Being named to the Golf Magazine's "Top 100 you can play," and designed with national championships and the Ryder Cup in mind, we knew we must have selected a great course when we got in line to check in at the clubhouse behind a group of eight men or so (I lost count) that come from Canada every year to play.
There's no water on the next hole (#11) but there are still trees to clear and a contoured green that is tricky.
As you turn the bend, the Signature Hole #12, is a very intimidating par 3 with a marsh to carry and bunkers to avoid surrounding the front and right sides of the green which slopes toward the marsh. Four is described as "an acceptable score" at this hole.
As you finish holes #17 and #18, there are challenges awaiting. With a forced carry over a marsh and a prevailing wind, you'll need an extra club at #17 for the longest Par 3. Hole #18 is referred to as "the toughest finishing hole on the planet" with a marsh across the fairway awaiting the short drives.
You'll have a lot to talk about as you reach the 19th hole to share your experiences of the back nine.
Our group, though, was preparing for the front nine. With a snack at the turn, I was ready to rumble. It had to be easier.
The yardage book describes Hole #1 as "one of the few birdie holes," which can be reached in two…." Except for "m-wah" who took a few more strokes to get from tee to green and over the bunkers. But, what else is new?
The tee locations are placed fairly for all handicaps. The forward tees give the high handicapper an optimal chance to hit the fairway. The distances are marked on sprinkler heads and on the cart paths for easy identification for choosing just the right club.
On your trip to the Myrtle Beach area, put this course on the must-play list of the Grand Strand golf courses.
Eagle Nest Golf Club Where Golf Can Soar Elliott helped establish the golf industry in Myrtle Beach and thought there was a need for an affordable, relaxed golf experience. With this in mind, he developed a championship golf course that welcomes players to play in a pine forest with natural hazards, obstacles, sandtraps, water, wastelands, and more. While you are enjoying the great outdoors, don't be fooled. There are challenges at every tee and green and everywhere in between.
All of our foursome experienced a few of those challenges. But I think Tatum and Wayne whom we joined on the first tee, had a more difficult time finding the plush fairways. We had a great time with these gentlemen from Virginia, whom we thought knew each other. But, we learned they met on the first tee just as we did.
They were my biggest fans when I had a chip in on Hole #11 for a par 4.
My husband, Dave, was reved up for facing the last three holes, known for their memorable challenges, by making pars on 16, 17 and 18.
Then at Hole #17, there's the pond again and an elevated green. There's a sand trap if you hit the ball to short, and you'll be in the trees if you hit it too long.
At Hole #18, you'll end with a par three. But watch out for the water, a short fairway, and four sand traps around the green.
Holes 16, 17 and 18 will give you quite an experience of greatest finishing holes at Myrtle Beach, while the whole round of selecting the perfect landing area for your ball among the collection of pine trees, springtime flowers, wetlands with cypress trees, and ponds make it challenging and fun.
Make your way to a beautiful 250 acre sanctuary in the historic Little River fishing village for a great round of golf.
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Then, we were matched up with a couple from New Jersey who also make an annual golf getaway to Myrtle Beach. I was confident about my golf game until we were sent to the back nine. I must have first gotten rattled as well when I saw all the water that the guys had to hit over and fairways lined by trees. By the time I got to my tees, I was feeling the pressure to perform. Then Pat hit her first ball off the Jade tees with me and hit it much further than my ball. Now that isn't unusual. Only that she only plays about once a year and still hits a great ball.
With Hole #1 behind me, I was looking forward to the "Best Par 3 on the Grand Strand" as voted by The Sun News at Hole #3. With the three-tiered green and everything else you can imagine (bunkers, marsh, wind and pin location) I saw why the readers gave it this rating.
Mention "Eagle" to a golfer and she has a vision of two under par. But Eagle Nest Golf Club owner, Dick Elliott, had another reason for thinking "eagle." When it was built in 1971 by Gene Hamm & Associates, there was a resident bald eagle that nested year after year at Hole #8. After Hurricane Hugo in 1989, the grand tree fell, but the eagle soars above the Carolina pine forest.
Take an "eagle-eye" to hit your ball down the guarded fairway by a pond and to the undulating green at Hole #16.
