Lion’s Paw Golf Links is heralded as architect Willard Byrd’s finest work. Approaching the first tee, you’ll find it hard to describe the excitement you feel as you get set to encounter this masterful layout. Part wild and untamed, part rustic and quiet, this magnificent course presents a lion’s share of adventure and breathtaking scenery. An open, hilly course with views of a beautiful creek valley and adjoining wetlands, Lion’s Paw features deep, sugar-sand bunkers and MiniVerde Bermudagrass greens, renovated in 2018.
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Panther’s Run
In Panther’s Run, Architect Tim Cate created a spectacular layout that winds through a massive and pristine nature preserve. Featuring generous landing areas and immaculately manicured TifEagle Bermudagrass greens installed in 2018, Panther’s Run blends modern course architecture and a breathtaking natural setting into a seamless fusion of design and nature, creating a truly new breed of golf course.
Tiger’s Eye
Tiger’s Eye is an upscale, daily fee course carved from a virgin pine forest. The course is
distinguished by dramatic elevation changes reminiscent of the North Carolina sandhills. Tiger’s Eye is a thinking person’s course, requiring precision shot-making and a reliable short game. The course hosts a stunning combination of natural waste areas, native grasses, wildflowers, pine and oak trees, and water features, including marshlands and waterfalls. Several national golf publications have recognized Tiger’s Eye as being among the best in the country and is an annual award winner.
Deercroft GC
Carved from magnificent pine forests, Deercroft offers one of the most scenic and challenging tests in the North Carolina Sandhills. Golf Digest has described Deercroft as the “Best Kept Secret of the Pinehurst Area” and featured the course in their bi-annual “Places to Play Guide”.
This classic Sandhills layout has also been ranked in GOLFWEEK’sTop 50 Courses for five consecutive years and has hosted the PGA Tour Q-School.
Leopard’s Chase
We are excited to announce the reopening of Leopard’s Chase, one of the Top 10 Best New Public Courses in America for 2007 as named by Golf Digest and GOLF Magazine. The course, designed by Tim Cate, is now among the truly elite courses in the region and features newly renovated TifEagle Bermudagrass greens that add to the beauty of this masterpiece. We invite golf enthusiasts to come and experience the renewed glory of Leopard’s Chase in Sunset Beach NC.
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Beau Rivage Resort
Make your escape from the flat terrain of the coastal region and enjoy a refreshingly unique golf experience. Amid gently rolling hills, willowy pines and aesthetically designed lakes, our 18-hole course ranks among the finest on the East Coast, while elevations changes up to 75 ft. and scads of bunkers place Beau Rivage among the more dramatically landscaped golf courses in the area. Carved out of long-needle pine forests, the 18-hole championship layout incorporates wooded hills, rolling dunes, undulating valleys and plenty of water from the Cape Fear River. Attacking the flags from the rough and pine straw can be a perilous undertaking, so golfers are tested to hit the fairways off the tee. The greens, made of a genetically engineered form of bermudagrass (ultradwarf TifEagle), are renowned for consistent smoothness, speed and true roll. With countless elevation changes, blind shots and water hazards, combined with narrow fairways and slick greens, the Beau creates a golfing experience that offers even the avid player a challenging round.
Castle Bay CC
Located just off coastal highway, US-17 in Hampstead, NC. is a challenging, Scottish links style 18-hole championship course. Although there are no trees on the course, there are the typical links hazards of tall bunkers, water, and waste areas. True to the tradition, the course demands excellent shot placement on almost every hole. And yes, like all links courses, occasionally one must factor in the wind.
Olde Point CC
Golf on the Carolina coast doesn’t get any better than this in Hampstead, North Carolina. Olde Point Country Club presents a 6,900-yard layout framed by lush, native foliage, and laced with ponds and water hazards. It’s definitely challenging for golfers at every level.
Located just minutes from Hampstead, NC and the nearby coast, Olde Point is the perfect destination for the ultimate golf experience. Reserve your tee time today, and take hold of the challenge at Olde Point Country Club.
The Thistle
Named for the original Thistle Golf Club in Leith, Scotland, which opened in the early 1800s, this Tim Cate course does its namesake justice. Golfers vacationing in Myrtle Beach can get a true taste of the Old Country on the wide fairways and in the clubhouse, which features 200-year-old memorabilia straight from the Thistle Club’s heritage. Save some airfare and experience historically great golf right here in South Carolina.
Carolina Trace – Lake
Our Lake and Creek courses were designed by legendary architect Robert Trent Jones, Sr. During his career he designed or re-designed nearly 500 courses in at least 40 states in the U.S. and 35 countries around the world. At Carolina Trace Country Club, members are fortunate to have two courses designed by such a world renowned architect.
Robert Trent Jones, Sr. worked with golf legend Bobby Jones on the Peachtree course in Atlanta and again on the Augusta National course, the home of the annual Masters Tournament. Jones, Sr. became a national celebrity with his complete re-design of the Oakland Hills South course for the U.S. Open Tournament in 1951. He immediately became the “Open Doctor” and in quick succession re-designed such major venues as Baltusrol-Lower course, Olympic-Lake course, Southern Hills, Oak Hill and Congressional Country Club. Among the many courses Jones, Sr. designed are: Dorado Beach in Puerto Rico, Bellerive in Missouri, Hazeltine in Minnesota, Shady Oaks in Texas, Upper Montclair in New Jersey and Spyglass in California.
Hyland Golf Club
The Gem of the Sandhills
Hyland Golf Club is often referred to as the “player’s” course for its playability, affordability and excellent conditions. This unique Tom Jackson design is a North Carolina Sandhills must play golf experience. Enjoy rolling terrain set amidst longleaf pines, and a great test of golf!
2008 4 Stars “OUTSTANDING. Plan your next vacation around it.”
– Golf Digest Places to Play
Carolina Trace – Creek
Our Lake and Creek courses were designed by legendary architect Robert Trent Jones, Sr. During his career he designed or re-designed nearly 500 courses in at least 40 states in the U.S. and 35 countries around the world. At Carolina Trace Country Club, members are fortunate to have two courses designed by such a world renowned architect.
Robert Trent Jones, Sr. worked with golf legend Bobby Jones on the Peachtree course in Atlanta and again on the Augusta National course, the home of the annual Masters Tournament. Jones, Sr. became a national celebrity with his complete re-design of the Oakland Hills South course for the U.S. Open Tournament in 1951. He immediately became the “Open Doctor” and in quick succession re-designed such major venues as Baltusrol-Lower course, Olympic-Lake course, Southern Hills, Oak Hill and Congressional Country Club. Among the many courses Jones, Sr. designed are: Dorado Beach in Puerto Rico, Bellerive in Missouri, Hazeltine in Minnesota, Shady Oaks in Texas, Upper Montclair in New Jersey and Spyglass in California
The Links at Brick Landing
Back in George Washington’s day when he paid a visit to the Gause family at their plantation, there was a landing nearby where the bricks were unloaded from England to build the home – this is said to be the origin of the Brick Landing community.
Today that same Brick Landing community with its gracious large oak trees situated along the beautiful Intracoastal Waterway hosts some of the most lovely homes in the entire area. It is gated country club living at its finest!
The Links at Brick Landing features 3 holes directly on the Intercoastal waterway with ocean views. Morning sunrises are beautiful. The Sunday Dwart Bermuda greens provides for a consistent year round putting surface. The course length measure out to 6500 yds with a par 71. Out 18-hole design offer unigue challenges from the low handicap golfers and to all levels of players.
Come enjoy a day with us at The Links at Brick Landing.
Oyster Bay Golf Links
Voted the 1983 Golf Digest “Resort Course of the Year,” and ranked by the same publication among the top 50 public courses in the country in 1990, Oyster Bay Golf Links is a rare, harmonious blend of the penal, heroic and strategic philosophies of golf course architecture. Architect Dan Maples and developer Larry Young created a course where variety and innovation are the name of the game. Consider severe marsh-oriented holes, two island green par threes, strategic (and stunningly beautiful) fresh water lakes, long holes, short holes…the consummate combination of shot making requirements.
The par-70 course plays to just under 6,700 yards, but cavernous bunkers, wickedly undulating greens and lengthy par 4’s make Oyster Bay a test of one’s mettle.
“Best Public Golf Courses In North Carolina” – Golf Magazine, 2008 #11
“America’s Top Golf Courses” – Zagat Survey, 2009
Golf Digest’s Best Places to Play – 2005: 4 stars; 2003: 5 stars; 2001: 4 1/2 stars
