The Dunes Golf and Beach Club
Myrtle Beach, Horry County, South Carolina · Myrtle Beach / North Myrtle Beach / Grand Strand golf market
- Access
- equity
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Robert Trent Jones Sr. (1948 original; 1992 renovation), Rees Jones (subsequent renovation)
- Gated
- No
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The Dunes Golf and Beach Club is a member-owned, oceanfront private club in Myrtle Beach, founded in 1947-48 and built around Robert Trent Jones Sr.'s original 1948 design -- widely credited as a career-launching commission for Jones and a foundational moment for Myrtle Beach's identity as a golf destination. The club has hosted major competitive golf across its history and, since May 2024, hosts the PGA Tour's Myrtle Beach Classic.
Golf & Course
The course plays to par 71 at roughly 7,347 yards, originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in 1948 (his renovation followed in 1992), with subsequent work by Rees Jones. Beyond the PGA Tour's Myrtle Beach Classic (first held May 2024, contracted through at least 2027 -- Myrtle Beach golf's 100th anniversary year), the club has also hosted the Senior PGA Tour Championship, a U.S. Women's Open, and finals of the PGA Tour's Q-School.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Membership is member-owned/equity, with all memberships structured as family memberships (spouses and children under 21). A National Membership tier, added in 2018, serves members whose primary residence is outside Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, or Virginia at 50% of the full initiation fee, monthly dues, and monthly capital dues, with the food-and-beverage minimum waived. Roughly a third of rounds are reportedly played by the public through golf-package providers, a real but limited outside-access allowance.
Living in The Dunes Golf and Beach Club
No developer-built residential community surrounds this club -- it is a historic, freestanding, member-owned institution on oceanfront land, distinct in structure from the developer-bundled golf communities found elsewhere on this platform.
Lifestyle & Amenities
The 'Beach Club' half of the name reflects genuine oceanfront beach-club amenities alongside golf, per the club's own branding.
Location & Surrounding Area
Oceanfront in Myrtle Beach.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.
Initiation (range low)
Historical$25,001
Third-party-reported range; confirm directly with the club.
Initiation (range high)
Historical$50,000
Third-party-reported range; confirm directly with the club.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm the club's own currently published initiation fee and dues directly -- the figures used here are a third-party aggregator's reported range.
- Confirm the current percentage/terms of packager/public play directly with the club.
- Confirm current membership waitlist status, if any -- not found this session.
Notable
- Founded via meetings in October 1947 and May 1948; opened in 1948 as Myrtle Beach's second golf course.
- Robert Trent Jones Sr.'s original design here is widely credited as a career-launching commission for the architect.
- Since May 2024, hosts the PGA Tour's ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic -- the first PGA Tour event in Myrtle Beach history -- contracted through at least 2027.
- Has also hosted the Senior PGA Tour Championship, a U.S. Women's Open, and PGA Tour Q-School finals.
- Roughly 800+ members; added a National Membership tier in 2018 for out-of-region members.
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