Tidewater

The course at Tidewater Golf Club and Plantation lies between the Intracoastal Waterway and Cherry Grove. It’s a highly regarded 18-hole layout that’s won many admirers since it opened in 1990.

The club expanded greens, improved drainage and cleared hundreds of trees in a 2014 renovation project by Kris Spence which totally rejuvenated the layout.

Eight fairways play along either the Cherry Grove Inlet or the Intracoastal Waterway, and many of these could be considered as a “signature” hole. Nonetheless, some of the inland holes – like the pair of short par fours at the 7th and 15th – are just as impressive.

The marshy waters of the Intracoastal come into play on holes 8, 9 and 16 to 18 but Tidewater’s most memorable challenges are framed by Cherry Grove, with the 3rd and 12th holes on the salt marshes the prettiest pair of par threes on the Grand Strand.

The 543-yard 13th might be the only par five in the Myrtle Beach area with views of the Atlantic Ocean, and the 430-yard 4th, doglegging gently left along the inlet to a heavily sand-protected green, is one of the area’s best two-shot holes.