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Long Bay Club
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The Long Bay Club boasts a Jack Nicklaus Signature design that is consistently ranked as one of the top golf courses in South Carolina, a major accomplishment when you're competing with golf destinations such as Hilton Head and Kiawah Island. The landscape showcases the beauty of the Lowcountry with forests of pines, dogwoods, and maple trees divided by clear blue streams. The golf course design closely mimics the natural contours of the terrain but there are also countless large, man-made mounds that were seamlessly sculpted into the surroundings. It is considered one of the toughest golf courses on the Grand Strand. Golfers will face numerous bunkers that are seemingly bottomless as well as vast waste areas. The signature hole is the par-4 10th, which features a u-shaped waste area that completely surrounds the fairway and then crosses in front of the elevated, contoured green.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 72 | 7025 yards | 74.4 | 146 |
| Blue | 72 | 6593 yards | 72.3 | 141 |
| White | 72 | 6209 yards | 70.6 | 137 |
| Gold | 72 | 5715 yards | 68.0 | 129 |
| Gold (W) | 72 | 5715 yards | 73.9 | 134 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 4944 yards | 69.9 | 127 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 74.0/142 | 408 | 568 | 401 | 472 | 182 | 394 | 543 | 179 | 370 | 3517 | 352 | 552 | 443 | 156 | 432 | 492 | 433 | 203 | 445 | 3508 | 7025 |
| Blue M: 72.5/135 | 386 | 538 | 377 | 443 | 166 | 377 | 507 | 166 | 357 | 3317 | 327 | 520 | 408 | 140 | 404 | 463 | 408 | 194 | 412 | 3276 | 6593 |
| White M: 70.6/131 W: 76.6/142 | 377 | 524 | 364 | 419 | 149 | 363 | 485 | 147 | 327 | 3155 | 315 | 498 | 375 | 123 | 376 | 449 | 380 | 170 | 368 | 3054 | 6209 |
| Gold M: 68.0/125 W: 73.5/135 | 367 | 491 | 337 | 382 | 136 | 319 | 432 | 121 | 318 | 2903 | 284 | 467 | 353 | 121 | 327 | 426 | 348 | 158 | 328 | 2812 | 5715 |
| Red M: 64.3/116 W: 69.3/126 | 287 | 453 | 295 | 346 | 104 | 295 | 424 | 98 | 208 | 2510 | 252 | 432 | 284 | 86 | 304 | 370 | 288 | 146 | 272 | 2434 | 4944 |
| Handicap | 11 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 17 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 2 | |||
| Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 7 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 16 | 10 | 6 |
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Golf Advisor: Top 25 Most Improved U.S. Golf Courses (2024 #25)
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Awesome layout
Awesome course. I will definitely play it again when I'm in the area.
Pretty Good Course
The course was fun and decently challenging. The fairways and rough were in great shape, but the bunkers and greens were not. The only thing consistent about the greens is how slow they were. The bunkers were either all dirt and mud or hard as a rock. Overall, I would recommend it.
Good Course for the money
Good course, Friendly staff. No cart beverage service during our round. Took about 4 hours or so to play 18. Bunkers were generally unplayable - only 1 or 2 could be played out of. The rest of them were full of mud and had not been worked in quite a while. The fairways, rough, and greens were in good shape. Only one green had some issues. Course layout was fairly straight forward - no tricks or misdirection. I would play again for the value but would try to get a good deal.
Great course
Great course. We will definitely play again the next time we are in town..
Tee time.
Really good experience. Course was kind of hard to find using google maps, so I was cutting arrival and my tee time close. Staff was very understanding with my late arrival and got me right out on the course.
Course doesn’t allow singles. So if you don’t like to play with others just a heads up.
Fun course to play overall.
Great course, good Landing area for drive, Great challenge around the Green but overall, fun course to play, i recommend
Nice layout, greens were rough
Top dressing on the greens was a disappointment. Overall the course was good but the greens were like putting on sand. That should always be disclosed before booking. Very nice staff.
Greens in very rough shape.
Played 3 courses this past weekend, long bay was the most expensive and was in the worst condition!! Almost every green had dead/bare spots all around the perimeter, the center of the greens were in pretty good shape though. Overall good course just needs serious work on the greens
Decent course
Course was in decent shape. Fairways and tee boxes were great. About half of the greens were in bad shape. All in all fair place to play.
It’s a shame…
Really good layout completely over shattered by the bad condition of the golf course. They had just top dressed the front nine (did a really poor job of it) with zero notifications that it had been done. The first nine greens were basically unplayable - far too much sand applied and not spread evenly - causing them to be running about a bumpy 4 on the Stimp. The back nine greens (which I was told are slated to be top dressed the day after we played) were in rough shape as well.
It has been quite a while since I’ve played this course and it is sad to see how it’s fallen - I assume due to a lack of money. I was surprised how inexpensive ($75 with cart) it was but, now I understand why. I would have to have assurances that it’s gotten dramatically better before I would ever go back.
Nice layout
I liked the course layout, bunkers where in great shape and mostly raked well, greens were ok but some spots appeared to be teated with green colouring, course condition were good for this time of year, I enjoyed and would play again.
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