Pearl Golf Links

The Pearl has two 18 hole championship golf courses, the East, a parkland style of layout, and the West is a links design, both by Dan Maples in the 1980's. It's located up in North Myrtle Beach in the Sunset Beach/Calabash area. The East plays to 6,793 yards, with a 134 slope, and a 72.5 course rating. Mostly flat course, some fairway undulations and mounding, with water or marsh from the Calabash River in play on all but two holes, plenty of sand, and generally raised mid sized greens. The West course plays to just over 7,000 yards from the tips and is rated at 74.9 course rating, and 131 slope from the back tees, and is an open design without a lot of trees in play, but water and/or marsh on every hole, and a good amount of bunkering. Not your classic links design, but fun and challenging course with a number of risk/reward type opportunities, and a beautiful finishing stretch of holes. Both courses are tough on you if you can't keep the ball on the narrow fairways, you'll like loose a lot of balls here. Conditions were great, rates were reasonable, one of the better courses on the Grand Strand in my opinion, favoring the West.