Pawleys Plantation Golf Country Club is an 18-hole course in Pawleys Island, South Carolina.

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holes

par

7,031

yards (tips)

148

slope (golden bear)

The shape of the round · Golden Bear 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: Jack Nicklaus reported
address: Dove Lane, Pawleys Island, SC, 29585
phone: 843-237-6000
website: course site →
elevation: 21 ft derived
opened: 1988
on site: driving range · restaurant · lessons · club rental

33.41984, -79.14402 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. Hole 13 is mapped without a green. 12 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one. The map below draws everything that has been traced.

219 traced features across 8 layers for Pawleys Plantation Golf Country Club, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,881yds

Golden Bear tees

563yds

Longest hole

172yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-04-19

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-24

All 12 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Golden Bear	M	72	7031	75.7	148	3571	3460
Green Winged Teal	M	72	6582	73.2	145
Blue Heron		72	6549	73.7	144	3323	3226
Redtail Hawk	M	72	6209	71.6	140
White Egret		72	6184	72.0	139	3133	3051
White Egret	M	72	5570	69.1	130
White Egret	F	72	5570	74.3	142
Yellow Finch		72	5560	69.2	132	2900	2660
Yellow Finch	M	72	4985	66.4	126
Yellow Finch	F	72	4985	71.4	130
Blue Heron	M	72	4222	63.0	123
Blue Heron	F	72	4222	67.0	124

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

Scorecardreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-24

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	5	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	4	4	5	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	72
Golden Bear	511	461	194	543	390	432	172	452	416	361	563	382	150	525	391	444	201	443	7,031
Blue Heron	495	441	170	498	371	391	151	419	387	330	548	345	136	495	374	423	173	402	6,549
White Egret	484	408	162	468	353	382	131	387	358	301	542	331	115	471	364	405	150	372	6,184
Yellow Finch	426	354	145	450	322	367	124	361	351	278	442	309	69	446	313	360	122	321	5,560

We don't hold a stroke index for this course's holes, so that row is not above. The yardages are every figure we hold hole by hole.

No per-hole yardages are published for Green Winged Teal and Redtail Hawk, so they are not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Pawleys Plantation Golf Country Club hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 219 traced features, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

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

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

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Pawleys Plantation Golf Country Club'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: Founders Club at Pawleys Island (1.4 mi) · Heritage Club (2.0 mi) · Caledonia Golf & Fish Club (2.3 mi) · Litchfield Country Club (4.1 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	7,031 yds	=67th of 351	=1,616th of 12,025	8th of 14 in the Murrells Inlet, SC area · =1,611th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 148	=8th of 227	=119th of 8,710	=1st of 39 in the Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC combined area · =118th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 75.7	8th of 215	=239th of 7,615	3rd of 39 in the Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC combined area · =239th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,809 yds between tees	14th of 345	=445th of 11,523	1st of 14 in the Murrells Inlet, SC area · =438th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1988	=124th of 253	=6,015th of 9,368	=14th of 41 in the Myrtle Beach-Conway, SC combined area · =4,292nd of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	21 ft derived	=254th of 374	=11,386th of 12,437	5th of 14 in the Murrells Inlet, SC area · =8,270th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress3 of 6 built

3 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 4 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 12 sets of tees.
Course map, partly built.17 of the 18 greens are drawn — the rest of the course isn't mapped yet.
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.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold whether it is public or private 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 2026-08-24. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Founders Club at Pawleys Island

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True Blue Golf Plantation

1.5 mi · Pawleys Island · 18 holes

Heritage Club

2.0 mi · Pawleys Island · public · 18 holes

Caledonia Golf & Fish Club

2.3 mi · Pawleys Island · public · 18 holes

Debordieu Colony Country Club

3.2 mi · Georgetown · private · 18 holes

Debordieu Club

3.3 mi · Georgetown · 18 holes

Litchfield Country Club

4.1 mi · Pawleys Island · semi-private · 18 holes

Tradition Golf Club

4.8 mi · Pawleys Island · public · 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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