Waterway Hills Golf Club, 9731 North Kings Highway (Myrtle Beach): 24 June 2015 2 comments
I'm not a golfer, though some of my friends are very into the game. That said, I always thought it would be neat to ride the cable-car gondola across the waterway here at the Waterway Hills Golf Club.
This article on the closing of the club says it was designed by Robert Trent Jones and opened in 1975. As it closed in 2015, that's a 40 year run, which is not bad given the pace of change on the Grand Strand. The course was purchased by the company owning the adjacent Grande Dunes, but it appears to me that as of yet, nothing has been built on the former course.
You can see a picture taken from a gondola here. Also, I am going to try something new (for me) here. Google Streeview often has images I am unable to match, as they preserve things that have been long torn down in their year-by-year views of the same spot. My assumption had been that I could link to those, but not embed them, but in looking at the actual terms of use, it appears that embedding is OK. So, below I am embedding an image from June of 2013, which shows the course in operation, and a gondola en-route. You can click on the embiggen square to get fullscreen.
Looking at other Streetview images, I can say that the cable car infrastructure was torn down sometime between January and July of 2019.
2 Responses to 'Waterway Hills Golf Club, 9731 North Kings Highway (Myrtle Beach): 24 June 2015'
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Justin
17 Sep 23 at 10:07 am
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If you’re into biographies - James Hansen’s A Difficult Par talks about Robert Trent Jones and how he came to be the most well known golf course architect of his time and how he almost ruined his business with bad decisions and family issues. Great read
Jason
18 Sep 23 at 6:22 am
Sad to see this go. Growing up on the Grand Strand, this was always a landmark driving from NMB to MB due to the gondola.