Barefoot - Dye
4980 Barefoot Resort Bridge Road, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582
|
Surcharge: High
Date opened: 2001
Architect: Pete Dye
Head Pro: Mike Fluhr
Course Rating: 73.3
Slope Rating: 149
Yardage: 7343
Par: 72
Greens: L-93 Bent
Driving Range: Yes, Included
Rental Clubs: Yes, $40.00
This visually stunning design is filled with Dye's infamous pitfalls for wary shots. Working with exceptional elevations and an excellent site, this course lives up to the Dye name.
At Barefoot Resort, Pete Dye set out to create something that would linger in the golfer's mind forever. Bordering the natural white sands of the Carolina Bays, this visually stunning design is filled with the infamous pitfalls for wayward shots that have become synonymous with the Dye name. Both beautiful and treacherous, the Dye Course is an experience you won't soon forget. The Dye Course is the only semi-private facility at Barefoot Resort
with its own clubhouse featuring fantastic views of holes 9, 10 and 18.
Pete Dye upholds his reputation of building memorable and challenging golf courses by creating a stunning design filled with his infamous pitfalls to capture errant shots. However, if played from the appropriate set of tees, players of all abilities will be able to navigate the Dye Course. The fairways are GN-1 Bermuda grass, a hybrid developed by Greg Norman Turf. The approaches are Tifdwarf Bermudagrass, the greens are L-93 Bentgrass and the dramatic visual effects are achieved by the Centipede and Zoysia grass roughs.
Golf Directors Recommendation -
The Dye course at Barefoot is truly one of the best in Myrtle. If you have been researching Myrtle Beach golf courses online you probably read a lot of marketing material that talk about an “amazing piece of land” or how this or that course architect “flawlessly expressed the natural beauty” yes we read them too. This is a course that in my opinion lives up to the generous hype of the marketing writers. This is a difficult course that can scare a high handicapper (don’t lie about your handicap here, you’ll appreciate the extra stokes), but if you only get to play a couple of courses on your trip, make the Dye course one of them. Oh yeah, it’s also expensive but much like our $5.99 seafood buffets; you get what you pay for but in a good way.
|
|
|
|
