Thistle Golf Club - MacKay Course

may be my favorite course in the Myrtle Beach area. 3x9 hole courses. All are fun. Conditions are always great. BUT…..don’t go play there so I’ll always have a tee time available. LOL.

I had heard so many good things about this golf course but one has to play it to really appreciate how enjoyable it is to play and how friendly the staff is. I will be playing here more often.

Great course, great conditions, excellent amenities.

Unfortunately the heavy rains the night before soaked the course. Driving range and practice green were closed and it was cart path only for the entire day. Great layout with some very challenging holes. Greens weren’t as fast as we’d hoped for, but with the wet conditions that’s to be expected. Staff was very friendly and beverage cart was around several times throughout the round. Price is a little high at $111 but caught the hotdeal for $87 so not too bad. Would definitely play again.

Great course, staff and conditions. Generous fairways, good greens. Par 3’s have some serious length, but par 5’s are reachable with a good tee ball. Only complaint was the bunkers. we had several balls so close to the bunker walls the only options were to putt into another part of the bunker or try to hit left handed backwards.

Course was in great condition, would highly recommend to anyone looking for a high quality round of golf!

Exceptional course layout and maintenance. Beautiful holes and amenities. Only issue was beverage cart. Saw her on the second hole, when we didn’t need anything, and not again til the ninth hole of our second nine!

Played Thistle for the first time on a brutally hot Sunday morning. So not real busy. And the 4 some the paired us all up to make played in decent time. Didn’t wait and didn’t get pushed. Played the Stewart 9 first. It’s a great and challenging layout. A lot of sand and water. Very interesting and tough. It would help to have played it before to know some of the lines. A tough 9 if you aren’t hitting the driver good. And I wasn’t. Just a lot of very uncomfortable tee shots. The greens were very soft. They are redoing the greens on the 3 9s and Stewart hasn’t been done yet. Cameron was not as interesting a layout. Less sand and water. Flatter. The greens had been redone last summer. And were much firmer and faster. I actually enjoyed the greens more on Cameron. The Mackay 9 is currently closed to redo those greens and they said they should be reopen around the first of October. Overall. I really enjoyed the layout and thought it was in good shape. I was glad I snagged a hot deal on Golfnow for $103. The going rate is in the $150 range and I didn’t think it was worth that. I’d def play again if I could get another hot deal.

My 20 year old son and I played on a hot Monday morning paired with a couple other guys. Staff was excellent and conditions were great.