The Wizard’s 6,721-yard, Dan Maples-designed golf course opened in 1996, along with a neighboring sister course, Man O’ War Golf Club, which is not involved in the possible sale and redevelopment, The Sun News reported. Any rezoning request will come from the contracted developer, Pardue said, whom he declined to name, citing a nondisclosure agreement.

has not received a formal request to rezone The Wizard, David Schwerd, Director of the county’s Planning & Zoning Department, told The Sun News. “There is not even earnest money down, and until somebody gives me money for it I have no contract that I can count on.” “But we do not have a guaranteed contract,” Pardue added. “There are people out there that are looking at the possibility of buying it from us and developing it, and if that were to come to pass then we would sell The Wizard,” Claude Pardue, President of DG Golf Management, told The Sun News. has an agreement to sell the 168-acre tract to a developer, contingent upon the property being rezoned to allow housing, The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported. The owner of The Wizard Golf Course in the Carolina Forest community outside of Myrtle Beach, S.C. And residents of the area’s Carolina Forest community are marshaling opposition to any change. area, wants to sell The Wizard, which has a Dan Maples-designed course, for more than $6 million, but a formal rezoning request has not yet been made by the unnamed developer that is in line to buy it. I'm glad the days of slope-boasting are over.(Photo by Jason Lee, The Sun News) DG Golf Management, which also owns and operates the Man O’ War and Witch courses in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. Its course rating was only 76.7, but it boasted a slope rating of 145. But within a year, Moorland was surpassed by Papa Pete's Ocean Course at Kiawah Island. (This was the late '80s, remember, when being the toughest was all the rage.) For a short time after Moorland opened, Young got his wish, a course rating of 76.8 and a slope rating of 140, highest in the nation at the time. was simply providing what owner Larry Young wanted, a course with the highest slope rating in the land. I remember one critic wrote that Moorland had, 'Drama at every turn.' I felt it was more like melodrama, with exaggerations left and right. The fairway contours are as symmetrical as a washboard and just as grating, with lots of semi-blind approach shots from the bottoms of swales. P.B.'s shaping seems extraordinarily harsh and artificial in comparison, his constant abrupt changes all the more unappealing.

I mostly dislike it because of its position right next to Doak's fluid, flowing, beautifully shaped Heathland Course. So I suppose I should like the course more now.

I should note that many of these old railroad ties have now been removed, particularly the cart path ones. (What a jolting experience that was.) I wrote at the time, 'Moorland has more railroad ties than common sense.' even slapped some railroad ties down as a stretch of cart path. There were railroad ties framing a square bunker that had a tree growing out of it. There were a gazillion of them lining all the lakes on the course. While Pete would use railroad ties along the edge of a water hazard or as a basket trap, at Moorland P.B. tried to top him by hiding most of his 18th green behind a towering 12-foot-tall bunker and making the green 63 yards long. On some designs, Pete would tuck the green on a short par 4 behind a high mound.

From many of those, you were probably playing out sideways or backward. went further at Moorland and created several greens that repelled shots into deep hollows or deeper bunkers. Where Pete would create a boldly sloped green or two on his designs, P.B. trying to outdo his famous father, which resulted in outlandish golf holes. First and foremost, it was clearly a young P.B. As much as I enjoyed Heathland, I detested Moorland, for a number of reasons. Moorland, like Heathland, opened in 1990, and I played both soon thereafter. He ended up building just one of the three.) (I'm pretty sure Doak routed Moorland at the same time he prepared his plans for Heathland, because early press releases stated Doak was do three 18s at the resort. Dye, was on site concocting another 18, the Moorland Course. From Golf Digest Architecture Editor emeritus Ron Whitten:Īt the same time in 1989 when Tom Doak was constructing the Heathland Course at Legends Golf Resort in Myrtle Beach, Pete Dye's younger son, P.B.

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