Here's Your Guide
To Brunswick's
Bountiful Golf Action
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Although the front nine was opened
last summer, this is the course's
first full year of operation.
The Willard Byrd layout features
hunkers that Hank the sloping land
ing areas on par fours and fives,
putting an emphasis on placement
rather than distance.
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The green arc large and undulat
ing. which places a premium on ap
proach shots and putting. An island
green at the 15th hole highlights
Brunswick's back nine.
Brunswick Plantation is located
on U.S. 17 about three miles north
of the South Carolina state line.
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P. 13. Dye's Newest Design
Golf & Country Clubs
Accept The Challenge!
St James
Voted by Golf Digest as
one of the top 25 new
public golf courses.
A P.B. Dye design, this course offers eighteen
exhilarating holes along the Intracoastal
Waterway in the pristine beauty of St. James
Plantation. PUBLIC INVITED
Call for tee times: 800-247-4806
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P.O. Box 10040 ? Hwy. 211 ? Southport, NC 28461
Soon to join the Gauntlet's
collection of exquisite golf courses.
Voted one of the Top 50 Development Courses in the southeast
by Grolfweek. Experience one of the most unique golf courses in
North Carolina's South Brunswick Islands. Play through
beautiful hardwood forests, along scenic salt marshes, and by
the Intracoastal Waterway with ocean views.
PI AN ! A I I O N
St. James Plantation
Plantation
Hwy. 179, Ocean Isle Beach, NC
Call For Tee Times ? Public Invited
1-800-438-3006 ? 919-754-4373
Carolina Shores
II" you conic to the beach, you
have to cxpect to get some sand be
tween your toes. Carolina Shores
Golf & Country Club won't let you
down.
The Calabash course features an
intimidating 96 sand uaps. Com
bined with fresh water lakes. Car
olina Shores is a challenging but
fun layout at 6.757 yards.
Souih Carolina architect Tom
Jackson designed the par-72 course,
which boasts lush fairways carved
from tall pines. A large residential
community surrounds the course.
Fox Squirrel
Located in the heart of Boiling
Spring Lakes, Fox Squirrel Country
Club combines water, mounded
fairways, sand traps ar.d receptive
greens.
Aggressive golfers will find sev
eral holes that reward well-placed
drives with opportunities for birdies
and eagles. The Bermuda grass
fairways arc carvcd around huge
freshwater lakes and towering king
leaf pines.
This 6,272-yard layout got its
name from its inhabitants ? the
large, furry fox squirrels that often
dart across fairways into the trees.
The Gauntlet
Golfers interested in a coastal
course with a different look may
want to check out The Gauntlet at
St. James Plantation.
The 7.06K-yard layout differs
from most coastal courses hut still
offers views of salt marshes, thick
woodlands and the inland waterway
and ocean.
The Gauntlet, located three miles
from Southport on N.C. 211. is an
unmistakable creation of renowned
architect P.B. Dye and features his
typical hlend of imagination and
fiendishness.
Golfers can expect undulating
fairways and greens, startling ele
vation changes anil an outstanding
finishing hole. The course received
favorable mention in the Golf
Digest "Best New Public Course"
survey in January.
Lockwood Golf Links
Located along the scenic Lock
wood Folly River and Atlantic
Intracoastal Waterway, Lockwood
Golf Links offers some of the most
spectacular scenery you'll lind at a
championship golf course.
Towering oaks and tranquil
ponds and lagoons frame the 6.8(X)
yard Willard Byrd creation. Lock
wood provides a stern lest from the
blue lees, and the white lees also
oiler a gieat challenge at 6.200
yards.
Tight fairways and water hazards
place a premium on accuracy of tee
shots and approaches. In I98X. the
Holdcn Beach area layout was
nominated as the best new course
by Golf Digest.
Lion's Paw
Lion's Paw Golf Links is one of
the area's newest course, opening
in the summer of 1991. Another
Byrd design, the 7.003-yard layout
features rolling terrain and dramatic
elevations.
The ruggedly beautiful course
has several memorable par threes
and an interesting combination of
woods and water. Lion's Paw is lo
cated just a few miles from Sunset
Beach on N.C. 9()4.
Marsh Harbour
A Dan Maples creation. Marsh
Harbour Golf Links at Calabash
has been highly regarded since it
opened a decade ago.
The golf course is set on property
that offers a unique combination of
elevated ground bordered by low
lying marsh. Massive oaks dra[>ed
with Spanish moss line the fair
ways. and the course offers a nurn
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Make Fox Squirrel
Your Next Vacation Stop !
Play our fabulous course at our
| fabulous price.
18 holes w / cart $20 ? 9 holes w / cart $13 thru Aug. 22
Rick Vigland-PGA Professional
Call 845-2625 for tee times.
Located on the lakes In Boiling Spring Lakes
(6 miles north of Southport)
THE FIRST GOLF COURSE IN
THE SOUTH BRUNSWICK ISLANDS
IBRIERWOPD
HUE
A Golf Course Community
18 HOLE CHAMPIONSHIP COURSE
Welcome to...
BRIERWOOD
...with our new full-service clubhouse. BRIERWOOD
A place where we cater to old friends as well as new
visitors, where locals and seniors are always welcome.
A place to "hit the green" instead of a place to "spend
the green."
Call for starting time 24 hrs/day 919-754-4660
Real Estate Information 919-754-7076
Hwy. 179 at Shallotte City Limit