Golfweek's Best
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.
Kiawah Island, South Carolina·1 ranked 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.
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina·1 ranked course
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina · Pete Dye, 1969
Dye's tight, cerebral Lowcountry classic beneath the candy-striped lighthouse — precision over power, fifty years running at the RBC Heritage.
Pawleys Island, South Carolina·1 ranked course·1 upcoming event
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.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina·1 ranked course
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.
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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