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The Pearl Golf Links East Course is a 9-hole public course in Sunset Beach, North Carolina.

Designed by Dan Maples. It plays 3,401 yards from the Black tees.

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9
holes
37
par
3,401
yards (tips)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES394358401147614443604151534142434435564758395PAROUT 1,300 YDSIN 2,346 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 9 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer
Dan Maples reported
access
public
address
Sunset Lakes Boulevard Southwest, Sunset Beach, NC, 28468
phone
910-579-8132
elevation
27 ft derived
opened
1987
on site
pro shop · restaurant

33.89283, -78.52341 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around The Pearl Golf Links East Course. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it, and the frame follows the course's location rather than a surveyed property line.

Aerial imagery of the area around The Pearl Golf Links East Course, NAIP 2022. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it.

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Aerial imagery of the area around The Pearl Golf Links East Course, NAIP 2022. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it. The map itself needs JavaScript.

Aerial imagery only, nothing traced over it yet · USDA NAIP 2022-09-21 – 2022-09-23

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 5 tee sets par, yardage — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

BlackM36contested373401contested3646
BlueM36contested373237contested3431
WhiteM36contested373076contested3269
GoldM36contested372921contested2965
RedM36contested372576contested2641

Every figure as published except Card par (derived) and Card yards (derived), which are summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes.

The Black, Blue, White, Gold and Red tees publish a par the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Par column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own par row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

The Black, Blue, White, Gold and Red tees publish a yardage total the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789 Total
Par 444354535 37
Black 394358401147614443604151534 3,401
Blue 360333366138591414575139515 3,237
White 355323324130553390552134508 3,076
Gold 330289286118486380475124477 2,921
Red 25528125210444134343695434 2,576
Handicap 12168186421410

The Studio

The Studio can't plan The Pearl Golf Links East Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard, but nobody has traced its holes: the bunkers, water and fairway edges a plan aims around.

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  • The approach, planned A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

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Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to The Pearl Golf Links East Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

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Also bookable nearby: Jones at Sea Trail Golf Resort and Convention Center (0.6 mi) · Byrd at Sea Trail Golf Resort and Convention Center (0.7 mi) · Maples at Sea Trail Golf Resort and Convention Center (0.8 mi) · The Pearl Golf Links North Course (0.8 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

FigureThis courseIn North CarolinaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest3,401 yds482nd of 5419,526th of 12,02551st of 57 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · 2,995th of 4,105 public courses · 5,257th of 7,004 courses you can book · 174th of 1,791 9-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread825 yds between tees486th of 528=9,003rd of 11,52355th of 56 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =2,772nd of 3,841 public courses · =4,943rd of 6,653 courses you can book · =264th of 1,640 9-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1987=213th of 395=5,903rd of 9,368=9th of 50 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =1,824th of 3,277 public courses · =3,219th of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,060th of 1,347 9-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level27 ft derived 496th of 554=11,109th of 12,43735th of 57 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =4,059th of 4,289 public courses · =6,715th of 7,274 courses you can book · =1,755th of 1,830 9-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

What's on this page

In progress1 of 6 built

1 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 5 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, not built yet.We don't have a course rating or slope for this course yet.
  • Course map, not built yet.We don't have a map of this course yet.
  • Per-hole distances, not built yet.The holes aren't traced yet, so there are no measured carries or distances to the green.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

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Sources

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Nearby courses

Jones at Sea Trail Golf Resort and Convention Center

0.6 mi · Sunset Beach · resort · 18 holes

Byrd at Sea Trail Golf Resort and Convention Center

0.7 mi · Sunset Beach · resort · 18 holes

Maples at Sea Trail Golf Resort and Convention Center

0.8 mi · Sunset Beach · resort · 18 holes

The Pearl Golf Links North Course

0.8 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 9 holes

Legends Golf Resort Oyster Bay

0.8 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 18 holes

The Pearl Golf Links West Course

1.2 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 9 holes

Byrd at Sea Trail Golf Resort and Convention Center

1.2 mi · Sunset Beach · resort · 18 holes

Thistle Golf Club Cameron Course

1.6 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 27 holes

Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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