River Club

Pawleys Island, SC · 0.9 mi away

Litchfield Country Club opened in 1966 as Pawleys Island's first golf course. Willard Byrd designed it. The course plays under big live oaks hung with Spanish moss, and it measures under 6,700 yards from the tips. Eight sharp doglegs reward position over power. The greens are small but open in front, so you can run the ball on. It is semi-private, but the public can book tee times through the Myrtle Beach area booking network.

Pawleys Island, SC · 1.3 mi away

Caledonia Golf & Fish Club opened in January 1994 on a former rice and indigo plantation near Pawleys Island. It was the first solo design by Mike Strantz, who treated the routing as a composition rather than an engineering problem. The course plays through oak-canopied allées, marsh edges and sandy, tree-dotted Lowcountry terrain. The entrance drive beneath moss-draped live oaks and the marsh-side closing holes are its signature images. Compact and strategic rather than long, it set the template for the reputation Strantz built over a short career. Caledonia's Grillroom overlooks the old rice fields, the waterway and the closing hole. The back porch and full bar are the draw after golf, giving groups a front-row seat as later players take on the approach to 18.

Pawleys Island, SC · 1.4 mi away

Tradition Golf Club is a public course in Pawleys Island, opened in 1996 and the only Ron Garl design in the Carolinas. The par-72 layout plays to about 6,875 yards and was named South Carolina Golf Course of the Year in 2000, after a Best New Public Course nomination from Golf Digest. The greens were converted to Sunday Bermudagrass in a 2018 restoration, and the Mega Practice Complex is ranked among the best practice facilities on the south strand.