The Barefoot Resort Love Course is the strongest individual design among the four courses at Barefoot Resort — a Davis Love III layout that finds more drama and elevation change in the flat Carolina lowcountry than most players expect. It anchors the Barefoot resort-package story for the north Grand Strand.
At 7,047 yards with a course rating of 74.9, the Love Course plays more demanding than its $100–$150 price suggests. Wetlands, waste areas, and a routing that uses every available contour in the land make it a satisfying round for skilled players and an accessible but genuine challenge for mid-handicappers.
What Makes It Worth Playing
The Barefoot four-course package is the context. Barefoot Resort offers four designer-name courses — Love, Dye, Norman, and Fazio — in a single resort property, and the Love Course is the best of the set. Villa guests get preferred access and bundled pricing that makes multi-round play at the resort the best per-round value on the north end of the Strand.
On its own terms, Love delivers. Davis Love III used every available foot of wetlands and topographic variation to build a course that plays harder and more interestingly than the surrounding flat coastal landscape suggests. The waste areas provide visual definition and real strategic decisions; the wetland carries on the back nine are the scoring moments that the round turns on.
The conditioning at Barefoot is consistently strong. As a resort-managed facility handling significant volume, the Love Course maintains fairway and green quality that competes with more expensive daily-fee tracks in the area.
Booking and Access
- Package preferred: Barefoot villa packages bundle all four courses and include preferred tee time booking windows. Book at barefootgolf.com.
- Green fees: $100–$150 for public daily-fee play. Villa-package rates are typically lower.
- Public booking: Available online when not on a resort package. Tee times fill predictably during spring peak — plan 60–90 days out for prime morning times.
- Multi-course strategy: If your group wants to sample multiple Barefoot designs, the resort package combining Love, Dye, Norman, and Fazio across a 3–4 day stay is worth pricing out before booking individual rounds.
Course Strategy
The back-nine wetlands are where the Love Course separates careful scorers from those playing on autopilot. The forced carries over water are genuine scoring events — not token water features but real decision points about risk versus the smart layup. Know your carry distances before you arrive.
Waste areas off the tee reward accurate positioning rather than maximum distance. The fairways provide generous landing zones for well-struck drives on the appropriate line, but missing into the waste shortens the strategic options considerably. Club selection off the tee matters more than raw length at Barefoot Love.
Practical Details
- Green fees: $100–$150 (season-dependent; package rates available)
- Par / Yardage: 72 / 7,047 yards
- Slope / Rating: 141 / 74.9
- Architect: Davis Love III
- Booking: barefootgolf.com
- Location: North Myrtle Beach, SC (Barefoot Resort, north end of the Grand Strand)
Pair the Love Course with Tidewater Golf Club for a strong north-end two-day combination along the Intracoastal Waterway. For the definitive south-end contrast, build a multi-day trip that includes the south Strand classics via our Myrtle Beach golf trip guide.