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The Top 100 Resort Courses

Every course on this list takes a tee time — no member required. From Bandon's bluffs to Pinehurst's sandhills, Golfweek's ranking of America's best resort golf, paired with the amateur tournaments you can actually enter at each one.

  1. #9Kiawah Island Golf Resort

    The Ocean Course

    Kiawah Island, South Carolina · Pete Dye, 1991

    Ten holes hard against the Atlantic and wind that changes everything — home of the 1991 "War by the Shore" Ryder Cup and two PGA Championships.

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    4 past amateur events hosted
  2. #61Caledonia Golf & Fish Club

    Caledonia Golf & Fish Club

    Pawleys Island, South Carolina · Mike Strantz, 1994

    Strantz's Lowcountry jewel through century-old live oaks on an antebellum rice plantation — Myrtle Beach's finest.

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  3. T62The Dunes Golf & Beach Club

    The Dunes Golf & Beach Club

    Myrtle Beach, South Carolina · Robert Trent Jones Sr., 1949

    RTJ's Grand Strand original — the famous "Waterloo" 13th bends around Lake Singleton on a course that built Myrtle Beach golf.

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    1 past amateur event hosted
  4. #100True Blue Golf Club

    True Blue

    Pawleys Island, South Carolina · Mike Strantz, 1998

    Caledonia's wilder sibling — Strantz at full volume across sandy wastes of an old indigo plantation.

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