If you’re looking for picture-perfect golf, North Myrtle Beach’s Tidewater Golf Course is the place to end your search. With some of the Grand Strand’s most beautiful holes, you’ve probably seen photos of the course before on a variety of literature and websites promoting Grand Strand golf.

Among the features that make this course so challenging are large sloping greens protected with substantial bunkering, dips and mounds. And once on the green, golfers will soon discover that keeping it below the hole is imperative.

Named by Golf Digest as a top new course in America when it opened in 1990, the course continues to rank consistently in the magazine’s top 200 best public courses and top 25 South Carolina courses. The course also makes the top 10 list of Golf Magazine’s and Golfweek’s best courses to play in the state. A traditional style course partly sitting on a peninsula surrounded by saltwater marshes, its most scenic holes overlook the Intracoastal Waterway and marsh.

The course’s inland holes cut through coastal forest with water a factor on six. Course amenities include a driving range, putting green, snack bar, restaurant, and locker room. Coming in at 7,078 yards from the back tees.