River Hills Golf & Country Club

The course layout and condition were great but we waited on every shot and it took 5 hours for the round.

First time playing this course. A few thoughts: You better be accurate. There’s quite a few doglegs with little chance of cutting corners. The course requires you to hit everything from driver to irons off the tee. If you’ve not played at the beach much, the sea level elevation greatly affects your club distance, take at least 1 club more. If you’ve never played the course, have an app with hole overview and distance. The greens are grainy, really fast putting downhill, really slow putting uphill. Play more break than you think, lots more! The par 3’s are fairly easy, greens are in good shape and fairly big. Nice course, but way too methodical for my liking.

p.s. if you’ve play from the forward tees (teal and up) then the course is much easier to navigate.

We played River Hills on our first annual week-long trip to Myrtle Beach thirty years ago and a couple of times in the immediate following years. We played there again 12/01/24. The course was in excellent condition. The course belies the fact that it wends it's way through a residential community. Each hole layout is unique, and the course is picturesque. We look forward to our next play at River Hills!

This course is difficult for a novice golfer.

Lots of carry shots.

Demands accuracy.

I guess this course would fit the "Park like" description. Not a lot of elevation changes, no marshes. Several holes have water challenges, requiring layups or skillful full on shots. There just wasn't a lot of atmosphere or excitement about it. Houses lined pretty much every hole from tee to green.

Played River Hills with my son and enjoyed the course. Reasonable distance and difficulty for both casual and experienced players. Feels a little longer than advertised due to some long/tight par 4s and 5s, which we enjoyed. Staff, for the most part, was very friendly and responsive. Only negative was the starter. He seemed completely disorganized and confused trying to handle a busy morning with lots of golfers. When his staff gave conflicting directions he chose to chew out the customers. I would expect that perhaps at a municipal course, but for the money there are better experiences/courses in the Myrtle Beach area (and certainly with better starting staff).

A little out of the way from Myrtle beach but worth the drive. The fairways and greens were in excellent condition. The rough is dense and unforgiving making for some challenging shots if you wander off the fairway. Sand traps were well maintained and challenging but not hard or muddy. Fun and challenging course.

Staff was fantastic. My playing partner got an ace on number 12. Rough is really thick. I lost two balls in the burmuda grass. I really liked the layout and condition of this tract. Go play it!

They had recently aerated the greens. But they still rolled great.

Great course. Friendly staff and Tom at the cart area was great and helpful. Definitely on my list going forward

I always enjoy playing river hills. One of my favourite in the area.

Course in great shape. Due to recent rain, cart path only, but still played foursome in 4 hours. Luckily didn't hit into sand trap but one time, but they were all in good shape. Congrats to the Greenskeeper and maintenance team.