The Dunes Golf and Beach Club

This oceanside institution brims with history, personality and a brawny, breezy design that extends Robert Trent Jones’ legacy into the 21st century

Chechessee Creek Club

Members take a step back in time at this club with a lay-of-the-land course designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw that harkens back to the Golden Age of golf

Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head

The pros are playing their second favorite course on tour this week, Harbour Town, but our LINKS100 wizard, Thomas Dunne, argues that the intimate Pete Dye design isn’t the shotmaker’s course so many claim it is

Palmetto Golf Club

One of the oldest clubs in the country becomes one of the hottest during Masters week

Pine Lakes Country Club, Myrtle Beach

The very first golf resort in Myrtle Beach, Ocean Forest Hotel & Country Club, opened in 1927 right before the Great Depression. On March 12, amidst the greatest economic downturn since then, the club (renamed Pine Lakes in 1944) held its grand reopening following a 20-month, $15 million renovation of its Robert White course and […]

Caledonia Golf and Fish Club, Myrtle Beach

  Caledonia Golf and Fish Club in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, evokes one of those enduring layouts that were created at the heyday of golf course architecture in the 1920s. Why shouldn’t it look and play like a work of creative genius? Its designer, Mike Strantz, after all, is doubly skilled as a craftsman of both turf and fine […]

The Ultimate Private Club: Cherokee Plantation

  I knew I was in a special place my first morning at Cherokee Plantation when a mule-drawn carriage arrived at the front door to carry me to breakfast. For a moment, I felt as if we had been transported back to Victorian England. Or maybe it was Tara. Cherokee may be the most exclusive club in the world. […]