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Long Bay Club
There a lot of player-friendly courses to choose from at the Grand Strand in Myrtle Beach, but only Long Bay Club is sure you give you the swift kick in the rear that you so richly crave. If you are looking for a challenge, you will find no harder course to play in Myrtle Beach than "Jack's sandbox". That's the famous Jack Nicklaus who began his Long Bay project in 1986 and opened in 1988. This Nicklaus' signature course in Longs, South Carolina has since had the well deserved reputation of being Myrtle's Beach's most daunting course.
Long Bay Club is actually only 7,025 yards, but this Nicklaus masterpiece was designed to offer a challenge to even the best golfers. Designed to be intimidating, Long Bay Club is characterized by lots of huge mounds, a challenging 137 slope from the course's championship tees (only 127 from ladies' tees), and beautiful, but tricky par-3's and endless bunkers.
Water obstacles are not the most significant factor here though there is a typical island green and a big pond winds along the ninth and the eighteenth. The challenge here lies in the approaches, very poor approaches. Many of the pins in Long Bay Club are often placed very near the edge, cruelly tucked, as they say. Greens are reasonably sized, but are surrounded by swales, collection areas and lots of sand.
The course's par-3s are the course's design centerpiece at Long Bay Club. No. 8 is tricky 179-yarder going over a water obstacle to an atypically elevated green with water surrounding it. No. 13 is a 156-yarder going towards a very shallow green with a water obstacle and a small bunker situated front right.
No. 10 is Long Bay Club's signature hole and one of the most photogenic even among the Strand's many courses. It has a huge waste area that practically surrounds it and gives the course its famous nickname. No. 3 is the course's most difficult hole, which has a narrow, slanted green with a front bunker and surrounded by mounding leading to a very tricky green.
Replays can be had at Long Bay Club at discounted rates because it is simply the kind of place you will want a second chance on. This discount is especially welcome since with green fees amounting $120 during the Strand's busiest season, Long Bay Club is one of the priciest on the Grand Strand.