Murrells Inlet offers a slightly different Grand Strand register than the high-rises to the north: seafood shacks, salt marsh, and TPC Myrtle Beach, a Tom Fazio design that brought Tournament Players Club branding to the south end of the Strand. Blackmoor and other nearby layouts reinforce an inlet-side golf culture that feels a half-step quieter than Ocean Boulevard, with tidal creeks and Lowcountry hardwoods framing holes instead of miniature golf and neon. The marsh is not just scenery—it shapes wind patterns and the sense that you are playing in a coastal ecosystem, not a theme park.
Groups often base here for the combination of serious golf and the Inlet’s restaurant strip, turning a scramble week into evenings of oysters and She-Crab soup. Shoulder seasons deliver the best weather; midsummer heat demands early starts and steady hydration. Murrells Inlet is still unmistakably Myrtle Beach golf—just filtered through marsh light and a TPC centerpiece that raises the architectural bar.