Wachesaw Plantation Club
Murrells Inlet, Georgetown County, South Carolina · Pawleys Island / Georgetown County golf market
- Access
- equity
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Tom Fazio
- Gated
- Yes
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Wachesaw Plantation Club is a private, member-owned country club (est. 1985) on South Carolina's Hammock Coast in Murrells Inlet, built around an early Tom Fazio design (Mike Strantz, later famous in his own right, assisted on the project while working for Fazio). The club sits inside the gated Wachesaw Plantation residential community, which it shares a name and grounds with, though the club is legally and financially distinct from the community's property owners association. It occupies a boundary position between the Myrtle Beach and Pawleys Island/Georgetown markets, assigned here under Hammock Coast branding.
Golf & Course
The 18-hole, par-72 Tom Fazio course dates to the mid-1980s (sources give 1984 or 1985), with reported yardage figures ranging from about 6,502 to 6,833 yards from the back tees across different sources. It is an early Fazio design with a documented Mike Strantz connection during his time working for Fazio, before Strantz became an acclaimed architect in his own right (notably of the nearby, excluded Caledonia and True Blue courses).
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
The club offers both equity and non-equity membership options to residents and non-residents, with a mandatory minimum 12-month commitment and no seasonal memberships. Property owners in Wachesaw Plantation are reported to pay a $5,000 equity buy-in, while non-resident/outside-the-gates married couples pay a separate, lower ~$1,250 joining fee; broader equity-membership cost figures reported by aggregators ($30,000-$50,000+) are not fully reconciled with the resident buy-in figure and should be confirmed directly with the club (843-357-5130 / membership@wachesaw.com). Club membership is not required to purchase a home in the gated Wachesaw Plantation community.
Living in Wachesaw Plantation Club
Wachesaw Plantation is a 24-hour gated residential community whose property owners association (POA fee reported around $115/quarter to ~$137-144/month depending on section) covers gate security, road and common-area landscaping (including the community's noted mature live oaks), basic cable, and trash pickup -- separate from club dues. Golf, pool, tennis, and clubhouse access are optional paid club memberships layered on top of that POA fee, not included by default.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Reported club amenities include dining and clubhouse social facilities and a pool; tennis is referenced in community marketing though not independently confirmed as a club-operated (versus community-operated) amenity this session.
Location & Surrounding Area
Murrells Inlet sits on the boundary between the Myrtle Beach/Grand Strand core and the Pawleys Island/Georgetown Hammock Coast market; Wachesaw Plantation Club's own marketing identifies with the Hammock Coast branding, and it is grouped in this market per the statewide discovery pass's boundary call.
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$30,000
Third-party-reported range for Equity Membership; some online reviews cited by the same aggregator mention figures exceeding $50,000. Not the club's own published figure.
Initiation (range high)
Historical$50,000
Same aggregator-reported range as initiation_fee_min; one review-based figure exceeds $50,000.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Reconcile the conflicting equity-membership cost figures ($5,000 resident buy-in vs. $30,000-$50,000+ aggregator-reported equity-membership cost) directly with the club.
- Confirm current annual/monthly dues directly -- only a third-party-estimated $700-$1,000+/month range was found, not a club-published figure.
- Confirm whether tennis is a club-operated or community(POA)-operated amenity.
- Confirm membership waitlist status and transferability terms -- not found this session.
Notable
- Member-owned since 1985, offering both equity and non-equity membership options -- a genuine, not merely marketing, membership structure.
- An early Tom Fazio design (mid-1980s) that Mike Strantz worked on while employed by Fazio, prior to Strantz's own acclaimed later career designing Caledonia and True Blue nearby.
- Homes in the surrounding Wachesaw Plantation community range roughly $300,000-$700,000 (townhouses $120,000-$285,000), a notably wider and more accessible price band than DeBordieu Colony's multi-million-dollar oceanfront homes.
- All club memberships require a minimum 12-month commitment; no seasonal membership is offered.
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