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Spring Golf: 10 Great South Carolina Golf Getaways (Video)

By Elizabeth Bethel

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC - APRIL 19: (EDITORS NOTE: THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN CREATED WITH THE USE OF DIGITAL FILTERS) Jim Furyk waits to putt on the 17th hole during the final round of the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on April 19, 2015 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. (Photo by Tyler Lecka/Getty Images)
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC - APRIL 19: (EDITORS NOTE: THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN CREATED WITH THE USE OF DIGITAL FILTERS) Jim Furyk waits to putt on the 17th hole during the final round of the RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on April 19, 2015 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. (Photo by Tyler Lecka/Getty Images) /
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Heading south from the Grand Strand and following the coastal highway, known in colonial times and still locally at the Kings Highway, you’ll find your way to another delightful South Carolina hide-away, Isle of Palms. This is a place where the shabby gentility Pawleys Island protects has given way to an upscale resort tempo that somehow manages to hold on to that unique Low Country style.

Wild Dunes Resort dominates Isle of Palms with its 36 holes of Tom Fazio golf courses, The Harbor Course and The Links. They’re both fine tracks.

The Harbor Course winds through some stunningly beautiful lagoons and salt marshes along the Intracoastal Waterway and The Links challenges every aspect of my golf game with the 3 finishing holes that run along the Atlantic Ocean. Frankly, I live for those three holes and when I par all three in a single round, which I have done on occasion, I feel as though there’s nothing more to be accomplished in the game of golf.

Wild Dunes is one of my personal favorite golf getaways. I’ve played it as a single, with golf girlfriends, and with my family. The staff is always accommodating. Wild Dunes is one of the most female-friendly golf environments I’ve ever encountered, and not because it has forward tees. Those are universal.

It’s the attitude – from the bag boys to the starters to the pro shop to the other golfers – that makes the difference. Wild Dunes is one of the few golf courses I’ve ever played as a single woman when a foursome of men pulled over and waved me through without being asked! And for short hitters like me, from the forward tees half the holes measure less than 300 yards.

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