Founders Club at Pawleys Island is an 18-hole semi-private golf course in Pawleys Island, South Carolina.

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holes

par

7,007

yards (tips)

142

slope (black)

The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only

The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer: Thomas Walker reported
access: semi-private
address: 7829 Ocean Highway, Pawleys Island, SC, 29585
phone: 843-237-2299
website: course site →
elevation: 18 ft derived
opened: 1970
on site: pro shop · restaurant

33.42830, -79.16689 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. The green of hole 14 is predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. 1 mapped feature sits close to more than one hole and is drawn with the nearer one.

196 features across 7 layers for Founders Club at Pawleys Island, 195 traced and 1 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Some outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

7,007yds

Black tees

559yds

Longest hole

146yds

Shortest hole

195 imported from OpenStreetMap and 1 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-04-19

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 7 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Black	M	72	7007	74.2	142	3535	3472
Blue	M	72	6708	73.1	138	3376	3332
White	M	72	6394	71.2	133	3217	3177
White	F	72	6394	77.2	148	3217	3177
Gold	M	72	5506	67.4	120	2742	2764
Gold	F	72	5506	72.4	133	2742	2764
Red	M	72	4805	68.1	114	2371	2434

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	4	3	4	3	5	4	4	5	5	3	5	4	4	4	3	4	4	72
Black	381	432	190	395	209	546	396	427	559	542	186	511	372	449	392	146	501	373	7,007
Blue	372	416	175	377	184	525	395	398	534	529	176	506	359	427	386	140	447	362	6,708
White	357	390	166	361	158	518	381	393	493	510	166	491	341	395	371	135	430	338	6,394
Gold	287	358	127	334	134	421	329	297	455	436	136	436	314	358	296	120	373	295	5,506
Red	252	327	106	298	109	381	248	253	397	397	114	372	281	313	276	110	334	237	4,805
Handicap	17	1	13	3	15	11	9	7	5	4	12	10	14	2	16	18	6	8

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Plan Founders Club at Pawleys Island hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Also bookable nearby: Heritage Club (1.0 mi) · Caledonia Golf & Fish Club (1.9 mi) · Litchfield Country Club (4.3 mi) · Willbrook Plantation (4.9 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

Figure	This course	In South Carolina	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	7,007 yds	=82nd of 351	=1,875th of 12,025	9th of 14 in the Murrells Inlet, SC area · =215th of 2,030 semi-private courses · =860th of 7,004 courses you can book · =1,867th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 142	=29th of 227	=617th of 8,710	=7th of 39 in the Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC combined area · =56th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =213th of 4,936 courses you can book · =606th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 74.2	=54th of 215	=1,183rd of 7,615	=11th of 39 in the Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC combined area · =112th of 1,141 semi-private courses · =468th of 4,145 courses you can book · =1,174th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,202 yds between tees	66th of 345	=1,395th of 11,523	7th of 14 in the Murrells Inlet, SC area · 209th of 1,970 semi-private courses · =652nd of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,361st of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1970	=66th of 253	=4,455th of 9,368	5th of 41 in the Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC combined area · =765th of 1,516 semi-private courses · =2,340th of 5,526 courses you can book · =3,157th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	18 ft derived	=276th of 374	=11,550th of 12,437	6th of 14 in the Murrells Inlet, SC area · =1,943rd of 2,089 semi-private courses · =6,905th of 7,274 courses you can book · =8,407th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 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 7 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 7 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
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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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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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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