Carolina Shores Golf & Country Club

This track is not bad. Despite its age, fairways are fairly wide. Greens are slow but consistent. Staff is VERY friendly! Sometimes when other courses are crowded, I go here and play in 3 hours, for a great rate. Drawbacks- Lost ABC permit for 90 days starting early June 2013. No sand on carts for players to help maintain fairways. That's about it. Fun "practice" round!

The course is dated, but maintained. The greens were in good shape. The price made it worthwhile.

The Carolina Shores course is far from a greatly maintained course. I am sure most of the players are locals and residents.
Nothing is top notch, but there are some challenging holes on the course.
My favorite holes: 10 - par 5 that challenges you if you want to crush it off the tee and go for the green with water on the left that protects the green......it got me, I just missed and rolled into the water.....16 - another par 5 that is protected by big traps on the left on your approach, you have to try and hit a very small target on your second, I couldn't reach the green, but got lucky and hit the small patch of fairway just in front of the green and made par....
Overall, for the price, I like the course. If you are a stickler on perfect fairways and greens, don't play it....

I was excited to find a rate at $12 near Myrtle Beach. Living here, it can be quite expensive to maintain this hobby. Drove the 1/2 hr to Carolina Shores, to be quite unimpressed by conditions. Divot filled tee boxes and ankle high, weedy looking rough filled the course. Could definitely use work on ground maintenance. Greens were good, rolled true to putting force and broke true, as well. Some difficult approach shots over bunkers, and minimal water. Course was easy, overall, and a pleasantly mild challenge. Overall, I enjoyed my round, playing very well probably helped my judgement. The only drawback was the un-kept rough and teeboxes that could use some fixing up.

Played after a full day of rain in May. Traps were all mud and water. Tee boxes were basically non existent. Course layout was Ok. Would have been disappointed had I paid more than $30

I was interested in playing "Tom Jackson's first masterpiece", plus I wanted a break from the high-priced MB resort courses. The $27 price tag was very attractive, and the previous reviews suggested this course might offer some interesting shots.
The pluses - it is a solid, traditional layout, with a mix of left-to-right and right-to-left holes. It is very short (I hit driver twice - used a 3 hybrid on most holes, including par 5's).
The minuses - it does not drain well. I played it the day after a typical spring rain shower, and it was very muddy. The driving range was almost un-usable (plus too short to hit driver), and most bunkers were standing full of water. Carts were restricted to paths only - and the paths are VERY rough. (This is an area where they need to spend a lot of money.) The greens were very slow - initially I though this was due to the rain, but the locals that I played with said it was typical. No GPS on carts (no surprise), but also minimal yardage markers in fairway.

Overall, the layout compares favorably to several of the other "mature" coastal courses in the area, but the conditioning is subpar. Don't drive far to play it.

Staff friendly, rain the night before, so it was wet in places. Their golf carts were about two years past trade-in time. I got in 12 holes before the rain storm. I have noticed here that the cart trails are not in very good shape, maybe that's only on the cheaper courses though.

Nice older style course with pine tree-lined fairways, lots of sand and water (particularly on the back). Can score well with decent drives and accurate approaches. Would happily play again. Not the most challenging but lots of fun.

Interesting variety of holes.
Fun course to play.
Great value for the $
Tee boxes needed mowing.

Course was great,it was cart path only due to recient rains. cart path is rough!

The course was very playable and well maintain. The greens was good and balls rolled well.

Fairways are lined with numerous bunkers and greens are well guarded by sand and/or water. The greens rolled slower than other courses in the area. The area received rain days prior to our arrival and standing water was present in bunkers and in areas off the fairway - no standing water on fairways. The standing water was a minor nuisance and didn't impact our enjoyment.

/Course in very good condition. Only negative was the cart path.

Course was wet , so cart path only, tee boxes were shaggy, greens were a little rough, but a good place to get the rust off from winter, I think we were the only ones on the course. would I play it again No

Coming off big rain. Tall grass. Distances were hard to figure, especially with little roll

We played this course about 5 years ago and it was in good shape. Went back this year and was disappointed. Went because we were attracted by the low online cost (eg: $16)...great if you want to warm up your play and do not pay much attention to course conditions. No sand in traps...poor housekeeping throughout, tee boxes in rough shape, signs either gone or could not be read...appears to us that management is simply milking the place before closing for good...

This was Easter week and was busy around the courses.
Rangers had everything moving.

There were four of us playing. Two new players. The course was great. We were a little slower than others, but there were no complaints. Course was a little wet in spots. Not bad considering all the rain the night before. I would certainly recommend this course to others.

Our first time playing at this course; conditions were good.
Only downside was a long wait to start ,then our golf cart "died" two different times during the 18 holes. It had to be replaced which slowed down our pace of play. The staff were apologetic and remedied the problem promptly. Would play here again.

staff was friendly. we tee'd off on time and the pace of play was good very little waiting.