TPC Myrtle Beach

The Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole layout at TPC Myrtle Beach is one of 38 courses operating at thirty private and public golf facilities within a Tournament Players Club network that now extends beyond the United States to Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Opened for daily fee play in 1999, the course was thrust into the golfing limelight the following year when it hosted the end of season Senior Tour Championship (now known as the Charles Schwab Cup Championship) on the PGA Tour Champions professional circuit.

Twenty years after making its debut, the course underwent a significant update, resulting in bunkers being renovated, cart paths refurbished and encroaching trees removed to facilitate better turf conditions on and around the putting surfaces.

Holes to look out for include the 158-yard 5th hole in the southeast corner of the property, where water protects the front and left of the green, and the 472-yard 9th, rated stroke index 1, which features water to the right of the landing zone.

On the back nine, the short par four 12th (one of the few holes not oriented on a northeast-southwest axis) presents a great chance for a birdie, while the par five 18th provides a tough finish with a creek down the right feeding into a pond on the left halfway to the home green.