Leopard's Chase Golf Club
at Ocean Ridge Plantation
Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.
7,155 yards, par 72
Green fees: $95-$195
910-287-1717, big-cats.com
Architect Tim Cate has toiled on all four courses at Ocean Ridge, and has
improved on every one. Leopard's Chase might just launch him to a national
audience. This big cat stalks you with a daunting 140 slope, due primarily to the
enormous, heaving, speedy greens and a back nine that bares its fangs at the 11th
and never lets up. The front nine sports the prettiest hole—the island-green par-3
4th, quickly followed by the intriguing par-4 5th, its green completely encircled by
sand—but it's the (par 37) back nine that can shred your scorecard. The 439-yard
finishing hole has ponds bracketing the fairway, a gigantic waste bunker up the
right side, a waterfall left of the green and a prevailing left-to-right breeze. All that
makes for one of the most memorable closers on the Grand Strand.
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