The Witch Golf Course Myrtle Beach

The Witch Golf Course Myrtle Beach The Witch Golf Course where nature and golf provide a fantastic golf experience

It took the genius of renowned golf architect Dan Maples to design a course as incredible as The Witch. Encompassing over 500 acres between Conway and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, The Witch was created as a world of its own carefully removed from the distractions of homes, hotels and development.

05/20/2020

After successfully getting into the golf business in 1984 with the purchase of Hyland Hills Golf Club in the Pinehurst area of North Carolina, Claude Pardue was looking to expand. He turned his eyes south to golf-rich Myrtle Beach because he thought the Grand Strand area of South Carolina “would be a fun market to be in due to its incredible popularity with golfers.”

When talking with Pardue on his love of the golf business world, the word “fun” comes up often. “Life and business has to be fun. Enjoyment is important to me,” he says. He also likes a challenge and was looking to build a unique layout. After a year of searching for the perfect piece of land to fully utilize his sizable imagination and creativity, his company purchased 500 acres of the wild and wooly Waccamaw Swamp near Conway for his Myrtle Beach debut.

Working with noted golf course architect Dan Maples, Pardue realized his dream with the opening of The Witch Golf Course in 1989. As he says, “To me, a golf course has to have ‘magic’ and a ‘wow’ factor, and The Witch certainly has both.” He feels much of what has made The Witch so exceptionally popular with golfers for over three decades is the sublime beauty and serene wonder of the Waccamaw Swamp.

“It was important to me that the course was just a small part of the swamp as opposed to the other way around,” he says. The eeriness and uniqueness of the swamp was also the impetus for coining the course “The Witch.” “When we first walked around the property, there was almost a spooky feel to the lush wetlands like trolls and witches lived nearby. It was the perfect name.”

Of course, with Pardue’s love of the business aspect of golf, there was a marketing aspect as well with calling the new course “The Witch.” “Our customers certainly remember the name,” be concluded with a smile.

05/04/2020

The menace of Hurricane Hugo in 1989 factors into the rich history of the celebrated Witch Golf Course in Myrtle Beach. The Dan Maples-designed 18 wending through the glorious 23,000-acre Waccamaw Swamp was finished and ready to start casting its magical spell on the golfing public. The unique “haunted house” style clubhouse on the high ground was built and prepared to open its doors for guests.

The Witch grand opening was all set for Sept. 22, 1989 with an invited attendee list of golf media, local dignitaries, and family and friends of the owner and visionary of the layout, Claude Pardue. The opening was going to include “the works” with a big cocktail party and catered food. However, Mother Nature had different plans as Hurricane Hugo unleashed its fury on The Grand Strand on Sept. 21.

As Pardue recalls when discussing the opening: “Luckily there wasn’t too much damage. Mostly just downed trees and some of our bridges out on the course needed repair.” The bigger issue was that, due to the hurricane, the beaches were closed for a few weeks which led to area hotels not having as many rooms available for visitors coming in for the grand opening.

Undaunted despite the stormy beginning, The Witch had its successful debut shortly after Hugo left. “It was a smaller grand opening, but we had a wonderful time!” remembers Pardue. What would become one of the special places to play golf in the U.S. had an opening to remember!

04/23/2020

One of the many reasons the Witch Golf Course is so special is that it was built right in the middle of the glorious 23,000-acre Waccamaw Swamp - one of the most ecologically sensitive areas in Southeast U.S. Mystical Golf's President and CEO, Claude Pardue, knew he had an incredibly unique locale to build his first Myrtle Beach layout which has welcomed thousands of thousands of happy golfers since opening in 1989. Working with noted course architect Dan Maples, Pardue's first priority was creating The Witch in perfect harmony with Mother Nature. "Building The Witch completely ecologically sound while paying attention to the Waccamaw Swamp's teeming abundance of nature is what created the magic of course. We did not fill in one inch of wetland." The plan was sound as today The Witch is packed with thriving flora and fauna. Golfers may find themselves sharing the course with wild turkeys, cranes, bald eagles, alligators and even black bears. It's golf at its natural best.

Address

1900 Highway 544
Conway, SC
29526

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 7pm
Tuesday 7am - 7pm
Wednesday 7am - 7pm
Thursday 7am - 7pm
Friday 7am - 7pm
Saturday 7am - 7pm
Sunday 7am - 7pm

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+18433472706

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