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Best golf courses near Oak Island, NC
Below, you’ll find a list of courses near Oak Island, NC. There are 13 courses within a 15-mile radius of Oak Island, 9 of which are public courses and 4 are private courses. There are 12 18-hole courses and nine-hole layouts.
The above has been curated through Golf Digest’s Places to Play course database, where we have collected star ratings and reviews from our 1,900 course-ranking panelists. Join our community by signing up for Golf Digest+ and rate the courses you’ve visited recently.

Golf Digest has given many accolades to this Arnold Palmer design over the years: It made America's 100 Greatest Public courses list in 2005 and 2007, and in 2010, Golf Digest named Rivers Edge as a top-10 course on its Best of the Myrtle Beach area (Rivers Edge is located about 20 minutes over the border in North Carolina).
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Only accessible by passenger ferries and private boats, Bald Head Island Club is a secluded getaway just a short journey away from both Wilmington and Southport, N.C. Routed through freshwater lagoons and natural sand dunes, this coastal course was designed by George Cobb in 1974 and recently restored by Tim Cate.
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