Long Cove Club

Designed by Pete and Alice Dye, the Long Cove course opened in 1981 with rolling, tree lined fairways, challenging greens and water featuring prominently in the course design. The residential community at Long Cove Club is spoiled for choice when it comes to on-site sporting activities – there’s tennis, boating, fishing, kayaking and swimming but the jewel in the crown is their private golf course.

Members here consider there is no single signature hole as there are so many contenders to choose from. Dye constructed the Bermuda grass fairways at Long Cove to be wider than on previous designs, with more room for ordinary golfers to remain in contention.

Dye shifted plenty of soil, in fact, a young Tom Doak worked here on his first construction project in the summer of 1981. The course was reshaped at one end of the site to imitate sand dunes, presenting a totally blind approach shot at the 5th hole for everyone but the bravest player. Long Cove’s Tifdwarf grass putting surfaces are larger, and more contoured than earlier Dye course designs but the two holes at 13 and 14, along Calibogue Sound, are reminiscent of low profile design features at Dye and Nicklaus's Harbour Town course.

Long Cove elicits many favourable comments from ordinary golfers who play here – “surroundings are magnificent… as pretty as any course you will play… lots of risk/reward choices”. So why not post your own review if you’ve played Long Cove?