When I asked Bruce how he would like to celebrate Father's Day. He answered that he wanted to play a round of golf with me, at any local golf course of my choice. After researching player reviews on the many courses available to us in the area, I settled on the River Hills Golf Course in North Myrtle Beach, and we booked a 9:30 am Tee off. We had never played this course before, and it is about an hour and a half drive from our doorstep to the club house, but most of the reviewers had commented on how challenging the course is and how much water there is. Both Bruce and I like technical course with lots of water, so it seemed like a good bet we would enjoy playing River Hills.
We weren't disappointed. Fourteen out of eighteen fairways have water hazards. All have sand traps, and most are narrow and undulating , requiring both strategy and skill to keep the ball in play around the hazards. Just our kind of course.
When I say water hazards I am not kidding. Some of these hazards could qualify as small lakes, which the player has to drive the ball over, or play around on a very small narrow strip of fairway.
Even when the hazards are not sizable, they can be situated so that there is no way around them. and the player has no choice but to drive over them.
Some of fairways are long, hilly, and have multiple obstacles.
( not the least of which is a cart path which wiggles through the middle of the fairway forming a hazard in its own right).
By the end of the game, we'd both decided River Hills is one of our top three favorites of our local courses.
What a nice way to spend Fathers Day.
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