River Hills Golf & Country Club
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About
River Hills Golf and Country Club is in Little River, near North Myrtle Beach, a Tom Jackson product that shows heavily-wooded, rolling terrain with elevation changes as much as 40 feet. Golfers won't encounter parallel fairways, but they will encounter fairways that weave through a series of homes, along with dogwood, maple, live oak, pine and cypress tees. They will also see quite a bit of water, though most of it is lateral.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 72 | 6918 yards | 73.3 | 136 |
| White | 72 | 6396 yards | 70.6 | 128 |
| Green | 72 | 5728 yards | 67.6 | 116 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 5030 yards | 67.7 | 120 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teal M: 73.5/148 | 371 | 531 | 187 | 401 | 448 | 180 | 527 | 393 | 418 | 3456 | 394 | 572 | 190 | 394 | 429 | 165 | 368 | 526 | 429 | 3467 | 6923 |
| Garnet M: 70.9/137 | 305 | 497 | 167 | 385 | 401 | 162 | 485 | 368 | 384 | 3154 | 365 | 548 | 185 | 366 | 404 | 137 | 351 | 491 | 400 | 3247 | 6401 |
| Orange M: 67.8/121 W: 72.7/139 | 246 | 458 | 147 | 346 | 381 | 137 | 464 | 334 | 367 | 2880 | 317 | 512 | 111 | 323 | 354 | 108 | 327 | 454 | 333 | 2839 | 5719 |
| Carolina Blue M: 65.2/108 W: 69.2/122 | 233 | 430 | 109 | 311 | 343 | 113 | 417 | 294 | 338 | 2588 | 263 | 457 | 90 | 224 | 299 | 83 | 270 | 397 | 308 | 2391 | 4979 |
| Purple M: 63.7/104 W: 67.0/110 | 200 | 380 | 90 | 270 | 302 | 103 | 387 | 260 | 290 | 2282 | 235 | 400 | 90 | 224 | 260 | 75 | 240 | 340 | 268 | 2132 | 4414 |
| Handicap | 14 | 4 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 7 | |||
| Par | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 14 | 4 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 13 | 1 | 7 |
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First Time
Amazing course, couldn’t believe how good condition it was in and how AMAZING the greens are!!
Very Challenging
Very nice facilities! Course very well maintained. Would highly recommend trying this course. Staff extremely friendly and helpful.
The course layout and condition were great but we waited on every shot and it took 5 hours for the round.
Bring your A game!
First time playing this course. A few thoughts: You better be accurate. There’s quite a few doglegs with little chance of cutting corners. The course requires you to hit everything from driver to irons off the tee. If you’ve not played at the beach much, the sea level elevation greatly affects your club distance, take at least 1 club more. If you’ve never played the course, have an app with hole overview and distance. The greens are grainy, really fast putting downhill, really slow putting uphill. Play more break than you think, lots more! The par 3’s are fairly easy, greens are in good shape and fairly big. Nice course, but way too methodical for my liking.
p.s. if you’ve play from the forward tees (teal and up) then the course is much easier to navigate.
A real gem
We played River Hills on our first annual week-long trip to Myrtle Beach thirty years ago and a couple of times in the immediate following years. We played there again 12/01/24. The course was in excellent condition. The course belies the fact that it wends it's way through a residential community. Each hole layout is unique, and the course is picturesque. We look forward to our next play at River Hills!
Great course
This course is difficult for a novice golfer.
Lots of carry shots.
Demands accuracy.
More interesting courses elsewhere
I guess this course would fit the "Park like" description. Not a lot of elevation changes, no marshes. Several holes have water challenges, requiring layups or skillful full on shots. There just wasn't a lot of atmosphere or excitement about it. Houses lined pretty much every hole from tee to green.
Hidden gem.
A little out of the way from Myrtle beach but worth the drive. The fairways and greens were in excellent condition. The rough is dense and unforgiving making for some challenging shots if you wander off the fairway. Sand traps were well maintained and challenging but not hard or muddy. Fun and challenging course.
Great time.
Great course. Friendly staff and Tom at the cart area was great and helpful. Definitely on my list going forward
Great round
Course in great shape. Due to recent rain, cart path only, but still played foursome in 4 hours. Luckily didn't hit into sand trap but one time, but they were all in good shape. Congrats to the Greenskeeper and maintenance team.
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