Legends Golf Resort (Heathland)

In 1990, the 18-hole Heathland layout opened for play at the 54-hole Legends Golf Resort in Myrtle Beach, the same year that P.B. Dye’s Moorland course debuted at the same venue. The Heathland was only the second course that Tom Doak had built, way before he became a well-known name in golf course design.

“My client here asked for an ode to the links courses of Britain & Ireland”, wrote Tom Doak in The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses , “and having lived there just a few years prior, I was determined to provide a counterpoint to the many courses of the era which sold themselves as Scottish. The flat site required wall-to-wall shaping, but we tried to show a measure of restraint, building due ridges across the property rather than mounding alongside each hole. Anyone who’s watched the Open Championship on TV should recognize my ode to the [ St Andrews] Road hole green at the 7th and a tip of the hat to the Home hole at Royal Lytham.”