Founders Club of Pawleys Island

Played it several times--never in better shape! Kudos to the very friendly and talented staff who made this a great experience. See you next summer! JB--Satellite Beach, FL

Course was amazing. Greens, fairways, bunkers and tee boxes are in great shape. As far as playing, you will need to find the fairway, or might as well say farewell to those band new pro v1s. Lots of water, sand and waste bunker areas. Wasn’t a huge fan of the awkward, short layup, tee shots, but just personal preference. You will most likely not need your driver if you can get out over 250.

We were first ones off in the morning. so we had no problem with pace of play, even with the double tee times. Only caught up to some other groups on hole 15, but still finished round in under 4 hours.

Staff was outstanding. Course was unique for me as I’ve never played with me with natural sand as part of the fairways. Greens and fairways were well maintained and actually green.

This has become a sneaky little favorite of mine that I’ll play many more times.

Helps to know your way around so first time scores were higher than normal and that can be expected if you hit to the wrong spot.

Hit fairways and you’ll have no problems. Problems spraying the ball and you’ll claim this course is the problem😉!

We liked the course a lot. Be prepared to deal with waste bunkers from time to time. The staff was very friendly and accommodating! We’ll be back.

Great people, easy course, back nine lots of moguls.

Nice track but need to fix cart paths. Put it in the middle of all the courses we play.

OK.In all fairness we played after 4"+ of rain in 3 days. That being said; Course was playable and GRASS was not overly wet. As this course does not have cart paths you ride thru the Waste Areas This is where all the rain ended up! Watery mud areas would be more accurate.If your ball did find a dry area in waste area it was like plating off hard pan as everyone is allowed to ride everywhere in the waste areas.It looked like the waste ares have not been looked after in weeks if not months.

keeping carts to outer edges of waste areas and raking every few days would make and keep it a much more playable and enjoyable course.

When you do find the fairways it is a very nice layout. Slightly narrower fairways than most courses we have played in Myrtle Beach but not hurtful. need to be sure you have correct club in you hand or have extra balls to use. Over all we thought it was a nice course but will need to replay it in dryer .conditions to get a better read and to see if waste areas are maintained better.

Great layout. I love the waste bunker look.

Waste areas / cart paths were very wet and muddy.

Tee boxes were decent turf not great

Fairways and greens were good not great.

Bunkers were consistent.

For the price I was very happy to play here. Course layout was fun to hit different clubs off the tee.

I will play here again.

Only negative is no range. Hit into a net to warm up.

The Founders Club at Pawleys Island offers guests a DESIREABLE GOLFING experience in the Pawleys Island area with 18 UNIQUELY designed golf holes!!! A Thomas Walker design that offers DELIGHTFUL/KODAK-MOMENT visuals, as well as isolated teeing areas, contoured undulating holes/greens and will give our golfers something special to remember!!! After the conclusion of your golf round , a Lowcountry-Style Clubhouse with a wrap-around porch awaits you over looking the beauty of the 18th Hole. Golfers may enjoy relaxing meal in the dining/meeting facilities offered.

Been here twice in last 2.months. Absolutely love this course. Fun layout, great conditions and greens are incredible. Starters do an awesome job to get you out on time and even move you around if needed to get your round in quicker. Rates are better than most for a course of this caliber. Will be back soon!!

This course has great potential with a very nice layout, but the conditions are not good. The greens are in rough shape to say the least and not what I would expect from a Myrtle Beach golf course. I gave the staff 5 stars because they could not have been better, they are the saving grace of this course. Also, no driving range is a tough one for me...

Founders Club is one of the more interesting layouts in the Pawleys Island area, but for much of its decade of existence in its current iteration, it has had some struggles.

When Founders (re)opened in 2008, its Emerald Bermuda greens were some of the first of the kind, promising a superior putting surface. In recent years, Founders' greens have been a bit hit-or-miss, and the expansive waste areas bordering each fairway have had their ups and downs, too. When the course is in good shape, it is one of the stronger options in the area. Last winter was rough, and the greens were still recovering a bit when I played there in October.

Nevertheless, if you play the course, you will find plenty of interesting holes. The last six are particularly good, as they take advantage of some interesting terrain. You might just find yourself thinking you're in Pinehurst.

This course was rough around the edges with waste areas running beside each fairway. Bermuda Greens were good though. Staff was friendly and helpful. My cart seat was broken and I felt I was leaning out of the cart. The cart eventually ran out of power on the 13th hole and we had to call for a replacement. They quickly brought us another cart. It appeared they needed a new fleet of carts. Also, a very limited practice area. There are just too many nicer courses in the area to recommend this on

My Day 3 course for 2018 Myrtle Beach World Am.

Seems like each year maintenance of this facility gets worse and worse.

Greens not in good condition. Around entire course, lots of weeds.

This course has lots of blind shots and combine that with bad conditioning...not a fun time.

Even the cart staging area is full of holes with standing water.

Going from hole to hole on this course was like playing Where’s Waldo in a golf cart! The group in front of us completely missed #16! It is very poorly marked and having to cross roads 14+ times made it confusing to say the least. Golf wise, the greens were fast & good, and the staff was great. The rest? Not so hot. The fairways were 50-50 weeds to grass, and the women’s tee boxes were terrible.

The last 4 of us who were left from our group who attended the Myrtle Beach World Amateur played Founders Club at Pawley's on our way out of town.

We had been scheduled to play Heritage but they had a delay and we could not make our flight if we waited that long to play. We called Founders Club up and they told us to come over and we could go right out.

The course was very wet but playable. Lots of rain just a couple hours previously. Founders does not have a lot of cart paths. You drive most of the holes either in the waste bunkers or on the fairway. They told us to just take it easy and we could ride on the fairways.

Greens were in excellent shape and the course overall was in good shape. Founders is not finely manicured, lots of weeds and such along the waste bunkers but the course has some slight elevation changes, is fun to play and is a good value.

These folks are super friendly and super nice.

So there are so many spectacular course on the south end, that you could pick and choose any to play for the rest of your life, I had not even thought about playing this course until I ran out new ones to try down here. I was expecting a bad course, well being surprised is an understatement. I won't get carried away, this course is not as good as most on the south strand, which is unfortunate because this would succeed anywhere else. It is a fairly strong layout, elevation changes and waste bunkers define the course. It does have its flaws, no range, sub par conditioning (blame it on the budget to stay in business), and road crossings. Usually I don't care about road crossings, it separates the wholes from each other which helps in framing the individual holes. But on the front 9, it was a little ridiculous, not only crossing a busy road, but actually riding on it. Oh well, quite the experience. If you're looking to play a course you haven't played, then go down there and keep it running.