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Thistle Golf Club Mackay Course is a 9-hole public course in Sunset Beach, North Carolina.

It plays 3,547 yards from the Thistle tees.

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9
holes
36
par
3,547
yards (tips)
The shape of the round · Thistle teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — THISTLE TEES429396211397422184555395558142433445463758495PAROUT 1,433 YDSIN 2,114 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

access
public
address
Thomasboro Road, Sunset Beach, NC, 28467
phone
910-444-2500
elevation
47 ft derived
opened
1999
on site
pro shop · restaurant

33.90636, -78.55525 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around Thistle Golf Club Mackay 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 Thistle Golf Club Mackay 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 Thistle Golf Club Mackay 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.

ThistleM363547
BlueM363308
WhiteM363092
GoldM362776
RedM362355

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789 Total
Par 443443545 36
Thistle 429396211397422184555395558 3,547
Blue 392350192370399171546358530 3,308
White 371334159347371144526340500 3,092
Gold 315301158297353129503294426 2,776
Red 291277125267261108360266400 2,355
Handicap 7917135151113

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Thistle Golf Club Mackay 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.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

  • 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

See the courses it plans Open the Studio

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 Thistle Golf Club Mackay Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Thistle Golf Club Stewart Course (0.4 mi) · Thistle Golf Club Cameron Course (0.7 mi) · The Pearl Golf Links West Course (0.9 mi) · The Pearl Golf Links North Course (1.4 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
Longest3,547 yds475th of 5419,381st of 12,02546th of 57 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · 2,935th of 4,105 public courses · 5,159th of 7,004 courses you can book · 72nd of 1,791 9-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,192 yds between tees446th of 528=7,366th of 11,52345th of 56 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · 2,165th of 3,841 public courses · =3,975th of 6,653 courses you can book · 56th of 1,640 9-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1999=331st of 395=7,780th of 9,368=36th of 50 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =2,656th of 3,277 public courses · =4,520th of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,211th of 1,347 9-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level47 ft derived =460th of 554=10,731st of 12,437=10th of 57 in the Wilmington, NC metro area · =3,958th of 4,289 public courses · =6,523rd of 7,274 courses you can book · =1,726th 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.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect and the grass on the greens.

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Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-14. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Nearby courses

Thistle Golf Club Stewart Course

0.4 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 9 holes

Thistle Golf Club Cameron Course

0.7 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 27 holes

The Pearl Golf Links West Course

0.9 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 9 holes

The Pearl Golf Links North Course

1.4 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 9 holes

Carolina Shores Golf Country Club

1.8 mi · Calabash · semi-private · 18 holes

Legends Golf Resort Oyster Bay

2.0 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 18 holes

The Pearl Golf Links East Course

2.1 mi · Sunset Beach · public · 9 holes

Byrd at Sea Trail Golf Resort and Convention Center

2.1 mi · Sunset Beach · resort · 18 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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