What's your favorite place for a guys trip on the east coast?

[bryanwmilburn]

I usually go to Pinehurst every year but our group has played almost every course in the area so we're considering somewhere new. What's your favorite place on the east coast to go for a guys golf trip? I'm open for anywhere from New York down to Myrtle Beach. Thanks guys!

[tjblue]

North Myrtle Beach....best area along with easy access to NC courses.

[Don Ross]

Try as you might, you will find nothing as enjoyable as Pinehurst. If you have played here often, put together all of your favorite courses and spend your evenings in the Village, stay at the Pinecrest Inn. A first class Pinehurst trip is hard to beat.

However, if you want something else, I think Myrtle Beach could be fun.

[Oriole05]

If your looking to change things up and don't want Myrtle, look into Williamsburg and Atlantic City. I've done both. I'd say the golf in Williamsburg is better but Atlantic City was more fun because of the casinos. There is enough decent golf around AC to make it a pretty good golf trip.

Atlantic City
must play - Atlantic City Country Club
good - Balamor, Seaview Bay Course, Shoregate

Williamsburg
must play - Royal New Kent, Golden Horsehsoe Gold Course
good - Colonial Heritage

[dereckbc]

Depends on what you like to do on your downtime. Myrtle Beach is good and I like going there and renting a vacation home/ Makes a great retreat to have BBQ on the patio, have a few brews, and watch the ocean. There are tons of restaurant, bars and shopping options in MB. Downside to MB is Rug Rats everywhere and 20 somethings drinking like there is no tomorrow.

If you like to gamble and drink, then Atlantic City.

[jparker390]

Cape Breton Island

[cristphoto]

I'm in the DC area and often go to Ocean City, Md or Williamsburg, Va. Both location have numerous quality courses and tons of hotels to choose from. From my location its less than 3 hours to either place. Neither are convenient to commercial airports if you planned on flying. If wives and kids come along there's plenty at both places to keep them busy too.

[b]Edit:[/b] I forgot to mention last year a casino went in at Ocean City with slots and full Vegas style table games if anyone was interested.

[Zeverson]

Sea Island if all that you care about is golf.

[txeconomist]

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Sea Island if all that you care about is golf.
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I tend to disagree. Last Summer I did a golf trip and played Sea Island (all three courses and stayed at the Lodge), Hilton Head (Harbour Town) and Kiawah (Dye, Fazio and Player) and would think that there is probably a better collection of golf at a few places on the East Coast than that at Sea Island. However, I think because Sea Island, to me, offers so much more than just great golf, I would go to Sea Island over all of the other places I listed.

The Lodge is flat out awesome (I never even cared to go to the Cloister), and the town is so close and easy to get to from the Lodge that it makes it that much better. There are a lot of good restaurants such as Southern Soul BBQ and other Triple D type places, bars and grocery stores that it pushes Sea Island to the top for me.

For a guys trip, I think that Sea Island is pretty awesome because of all of the stuff you can do other than play golf. Golfing, fishing, and shooting skeet all in one day would be a pretty sick trifecta.

[Mob]

I went to a wedding in Cashiers, North Carolina a few years ago and it was a spectacular place. They have several golf courses up in the mountains, I think the most recent designed by Jack Nickalaus. Really beautiful place and courses looked really nice. In fact, all I could think about during the wedding was how I would rather be playing golf.

[poppyhillsguy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEx5CvHDXy0

[Aces-6]

I agree with poppyhillsguy about Myrtle Beach.

Stay and play all four courses at Barefoot Resort and maybe mix in True Blue and/or Caledonia and call it good.

[T-MAC]

Myrtle Beach is a golfers dream. 100+ courses to choose from, and lots of things to do at night.
Problem with MB is, there are probably just as many (if not more) bad courses / poor condition tracks as there are nice courses. You really need to go there a couple times and figure the place out. Plus, as mentioned earlier, there are a ton of punks you have to deal with at many of the bars at night.
Pinehurst is hard to beat. Great golf and lodging.
Reynolds Plantation is nice.
Kiawah has some great golf but pretty quiet night life.
Ditto with Sea Island.
I live in Hilton Head and we have several nice public courses in the area. Night life is decent (has changed a lot in the past few years with more people moving here) and there are all kinds of nice places to stay, including right on the beach if that is your thing. However, the BEST courses in Hilton Head / Bluffton are hidden inside the many Plantations and are private to most vacationers (unless you are in the golf business / PGA card). In fact, most of the private courses put Harbour Town to shame, but it's still fun to play a course (Harbour Town) that the Pro's play.

[lefty-golfer]

Granted I have gone to MB way to many times but the truth is I love the place. disrgard 80 percent of the courses - granted i will miss a one or two but below is my list that we play. i will leave off a one or two big names (not a fan of the glens) but for the most part these are the courses worth playing IMO- I didn't include much of NC because we typically stay South or Mid on the island. Caledonia and Dunes club are 100 percent must play on our trips.

Caledonia (#1), True Blue, TPC, Willbrook (marginal for the list but i have a softspot for plantation courses), Heritage, Prestwick, World Tour (marginal to this list but good place) Arrowhead (again marginal, tight course 3 9's) Kings North, Grande Dunes Resort & Members, Dunes Club (#1A ) Bearfoot -Dye, Fazio and Love (skip Norman he blows as designer IMO) Tidewater

I know Cape Fear and a few other more in NC are great just never get that far north.

All this being said....We are going to Pinehurst April 2 this year!!! LOL I actually love Pinehurst as much or more then MB!!

[cristphoto]

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Myrtle Beach is a golfers dream. 100+ courses to choose from, and lots of things to do at night.
Problem with MB is, there are probably just as many (if not more) bad courses / poor condition tracks as there are nice courses. You really need to go there a couple times and figure the place out. Plus, as mentioned earlier, there are a ton of punks you have to deal with at many of the bars at night.
Pinehurst is hard to beat. Great golf and lodging.
Reynolds Plantation is nice.
Kiawah has some great golf but pretty quiet night life.
Ditto with Sea Island.
I live in Hilton Head and we have several nice public courses in the area. Night life is decent (has changed a lot in the past few years with more people moving here) and there are all kinds of nice places to stay, including right on the beach if that is your thing. However, the BEST courses in Hilton Head / Bluffton are hidden inside the many Plantations and are private to most vacationers (unless you are in the golf business / PGA card). In fact, most of the private courses put Harbour Town to shame, but it's still fun to play a course (Harbour Town) that the Pro's play.
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I was last at Myrtle Beach about 10 years ago so this may be dated. I found that it was more about quantity than quality. If I'm gone for a week I'll probably play four times so all I need is four quality courses. I'm much happier either going to Williamsburg, Pinehurst, of even Ocean City. I'll go to Orlando too, but I'm happiest staying within a 4 hour driving radius. I live in the Washington DC area so the first three above fit my style. For value Ocean City is all the golf I usually need. Once the main beach season is over its a lovely place (and much quieter).

[SDkristick]

I would highly recommend ocean city being a little biassed to the fact that i live there but its a great place to play, we have a lot of solid courses down here. However if your looking for something different you can't go wrong with MB

[T-MAC]

I agree with Ocean City as well. Great golf there and decent night life (if you can put up with vacationers).
We go every July and meet my wife's family there. My brother-in-law and I can only spend so much time with the in-laws so we usually get quite a bit of golf in during the 10 days we are there. LOL
Love the new(er) Nicklaus track called Bayside. We even looked at property there in that neighborhood, we liked it so much.
But decided that if you are going to buy property in OC it should be on the beach. ;-)