Socastee Park

I come here to play disc golf, but Socastee Park is a catch-​all for youth sports in a small local community suburb of Myrtle Beach.
The park features several ball fields for softball and soccer, an interesting dirt bike adventure course, a restroom facility, and an 18-​hole disc golf course. It stays quite busy on the weekends during the warmer months with youth leagues, tournaments, and contests.
The disc golf course is okay. The front 9 are in a wooded area surrounded by sparse foliage. The back 9, however, are like playing in a swamp. Many of the locals have told me the back 9 are flooded with water even on good weeks with little rain. I came just three days after a series of thunderstorms passed through. Two of the holes were impassable because of water.
Despite this watery hiccup, the local disc golfers love this course. It is very popular seven days a week with many locals playing through on a regular basis to improve their skills, and other locals forming teams to play tournaments.
Overall, this is a nice park and a good place for disc golf. It’s great for beginners, but just challenging enough for pros. And I haven’t lost a disc yet so I’m kinda partial to this course.

Just played the 18 hole disc golf course at Socastee Park. It’s very wooded. Average length and difficulty with a few holes over 600′. One element of the course made it uniquely challenging however. At the first tee there is a very prominent sign which reads, «DANGER! VENOMOUS SNAKES». Find yourself a big stick and try to stay in the fairways. Enjoy!

Socastee Recreation Park features so many amenities, but lacks a website or central information center. What appears to be an office is at the entrance to the complex, but during both of my visits I was unable to locate anyone staff-​ish.
A large parking lot provides plenty of parking for the park’s offerings — a nature trail, disc golf course, archery range, remote control car racing track, soccer complex, basketball courts, and workout stations. A couple shelters provide event space, and reasonable restrooms are available. The overall park appears well-​kept, and the only thing lacking is the availability of information or a website.
My particular visit was for the disc golf course. This course, at least to my beginner self, was incredibly challenging! My main complaint is the lack of information for the tees and the very difficult-​to-​follow paths. You have to intuitively know that the bridge, for instance, past the basket for Hole 4 is the path over to the Hole 5 tee. Ignore the hobo camp over to the right of the bridge, too. And don’t get too unsettled by the random car and camp seats that are sitting next to a couple of the tees. Just assume there’s a league that comes by and just happened to leave furniture.
Distances for the holes are not available. Directions for the next tees, and maps/​guides to the holes are not available. This course was carved out of thick woods, and the designers just might be sadists — plenty of Par 4s and a couple Par 5s are bound to challenge even the most adept disc golfers. One hole has TWO almost-​90 degree angles! And the «moat» protecting Hole 17 taunts you once you’re past the tee box.
Machetes might be a good accessory for this course, should your disc end up in the woods. And wear good hiking shoes — this is NOT a clean course. The rustic challenge of walking this course adds to the challenge. Oh, and should you be playing Hole 10 in the afternoon with the sun blinding you, just keep your disc along the treeline; the basket is just around the corner in the opening to the right.
You’re welcome. And to the person who abandoned a purple driver disc in the ravine on Hole 11, thank you — it is a lovely addition to my bag!