Booking a Fall 2026 Myrtle Beach Golf Package: Courses, Cost and Where to Stay

Fall is the season most Myrtle Beach regulars quietly prefer. The humidity drops off after the first week of September, the greens are firm and quick from a summer of heat, and the tee sheets are nothing like as tight as they are in April. If you are putting a 2026 trip together, the fall window runs from mid September through the third week of November, and the sensible time to lock it in is now rather than in September.

When the fall window actually opens

September golf is warm golf. Highs sit in the mid 80s for the first half of the month, and it is still hurricane season, so groups with fixed dates should ask about the rain and storm policy at each course before they pay anything. From the first week of October through mid November the weather is as good as it gets here: mornings in the 50s and 60s, afternoons in the 70s, and very little of the afternoon thunderstorm pattern that shapes summer tee times.

Two dates worth knowing for 2026. The weeks either side of Thanksgiving, which falls on 26 November, run quieter and cheaper than October, and the golf is still good. And the first two weeks of October are the busiest of the season for buddy trips, so if that is your window, treat booking as the first job.

The courses worth building the fall lineup around

Firm ground changes what a course asks of you. Balls run out further, greens release less, and the courses that reward a decent approach shot get considerably more interesting. These are the ones we send fall groups to most often.

Caledonia Golf and Fish Club, Pawleys Island

A Mike Strantz design at 6,526 yards and a par of 70, which makes it the shortest headline course on most lineups and the one nobody complains about. Live oaks, a clubhouse people take photographs of, and a closing hole that plays across water to a green in front of the porch. In October the greens are quick enough that the short yardage stops being an issue.

Tidewater Golf Club, North Strand

Ken Tomlinson built this one on a piece of land between the Intracoastal Waterway and Cherry Grove marsh, and it is the closest thing on the Strand to an ocean view round. Par 72, 7,044 yards from the tips. Best played in the morning when the light is on the marsh.

True Blue Golf Club, Pawleys Island

Strantz again, across the road from Caledonia, and the opposite in character: 7,126 yards, enormous waste areas, wide corridors and huge greens. Pair the two on consecutive days and the group gets both halves of the same architect. Better players tend to rate True Blue as the sterner test of the pair.

Barefoot Resort Dye Course, North Myrtle Beach

The longest of the four Barefoot courses at 7,343 yards, and a Pete Dye layout in the full sense of the phrase. Worth putting in the middle of the week when legs are fresh rather than on the last morning.

Kings North at Myrtle Beach National

The Arnold Palmer redesign, and the course most first time visitors have heard of before they arrive, largely because of the island fairway on the sixth. It stays busy all fall, so it is one to name early when the package is being built.

Tiger's Eye Golf Links, Ocean Isle Beach

Twenty five minutes over the North Carolina line and consistently the highest rated of the Big Cats courses. Tim Cate design, 7,014 yards, wide fairways and severe bunkering. Green fees on that side of the border tend to sit below the Pawleys Island courses in the same week, which is useful if the group wants one more round without moving the total much.

Two more worth a look

Glen Dornoch Waterway Golf finishes with three holes along the Intracoastal and plays beautifully in cool air. Pawleys Plantation is the Nicklaus course on the south end, with the marsh holes on the back nine that everyone remembers. Both are easier to get onto in fall than in spring.

What a fall package costs

We quote Myrtle Beach trips as one price for the whole thing: the rounds, the lodging, the tee times and the taxes, with every course and date named on the quote. That is deliberate. Adding a nightly room rate to a published green fee tells you very little, because the rate you found is rarely the rate attached to the tee time you actually want, and the tee time you actually want may not be available at all on the day you have picked.

The four things that move a fall number are these. First, the week: early October sits at the top of the season, while late November and the weeks around Thanksgiving are noticeably softer. Second, the courses. A lineup built on the best known names on the Strand will not price like one built around the strong second tier, and plenty of groups end up preferring the second tier anyway. Third, the lodging, where a shared condo splits far better across a group of eight than two hotel rooms do. Fourth, occupancy: the per golfer number falls as more people share a unit, which is why a three bedroom villa for six is usually the cheapest way to house a group of that size.

Fall is generally the better value half of the year against spring for the same courses and the same lodging, because demand after Labor Day is lower than it is in March and April. A package is held with a $100 deposit per golfer, and it is worth asking at the point of booking what happens if the group shrinks, because numbers always move between booking and travel.

Where to stay

Pick lodging by where the golf is, not by where the photographs look best. Fall mornings start cool and the first tee times are early, so twenty minutes saved on the drive is twenty minutes of sleep.

North Strand, for a Barefoot and Tidewater lineup

Barefoot Resort and Golf Villas in North Myrtle Beach put you on the property with four courses on it, which is about as short as a morning drive gets. North Beach Plantation is the upgrade option on the same end of the beach, oceanfront, with a fitness room and a bar on site. Groups happy to be over the North Carolina line for the Big Cats courses often use Sea Trail Resort Villas at Sunset Beach instead.

South Strand, for Caledonia, True Blue and Pawleys Plantation

Litchfield Beach and Golf Resort at Pawleys Island is the standard answer here, and it is a good one: a large resort with a seasonal shuttle, a pool and a range of unit sizes, ten to fifteen minutes from all three of those courses.

Central, for a mixed lineup

Marina Inn at Grande Dunes sits on the waterway near the middle of the Strand, so nothing on the lineup is a long drive, and it suits groups that want hotel service rather than a condo. Myrtlewood Golf Course Villas is the value pick in the same part of town, on a golf property and walking distance from Broadway at the Beach.

The short version

Aim at the first half of October if you want the best conditions, or late November if you want the best value. Build the lineup around one Strantz course, one course by the water and one long test, and keep them within twenty minutes of the beds. Get the whole trip quoted as one price with the courses and dates named before you collect a penny from anyone.

If you would rather hand that over, tell us your dates, your group size and roughly what everyone shoots. Call (888) 796-4652 or build a package online, or look through the full course list first.