There are about 100 golf courses on Grand Strand. It all depends on how far up and down the coast and into Brunswick County you keeping counting. When I lived there for most of the 1990s, the number increased every year, rising well above the century level.
Yes, I had played them all, including private clubs such Wachesaw Plantation, DeBordieu Cub, The Reserve at Pawleys Island and Grande Dunes Members, plus those whose status has changed such as The Dunes Golf and Beach Club, The Surf Golf and Beach Club and Pawleys Plantation.
Then came 9/11 and a recession. Then the popping of the real estate bubble. The tourism business struggled. Fewer visitors came to the Myrtle Beach area to play golf…