If you loved playing King’s North at Myrtle Beach National before, this version is going to catch you off guard. But in a good way. After a two-year, two-phase renovation that wrapped up in October 2025, the Arnold Palmer-designed course is back.

Architect Brandon Johnson, who spent 17 years with Palmer's design team, spearheaded the project to give the course new life. The King's North golf course is currently available for play, and the club has scheduled a grand reopening event on March 2 to celebrate. 

“Golfers who have played King’s North before are going to be blown away by how different it plays,” Johnson said. That difference comes from major strategic shifts throughout the layout. Johnson worked on fairway corridors, vegetation was removed, and the aim was to expose long views of the property. Putting surfaces are now more expanded and reshaped.

“This wasn’t about small tweaks. We leaned into bold ideas; restoring width, creating new angles, and building green complexes that reward creativity and thought," said Brandon  Johnson.

“Every hole now asks a question,” Johnson added in a media release as per Golfweek. Fairways have been widened, bunker layouts reshaped, and green complexes rebuilt to create more options off the tee and into the greens. 

For a lot of golfers visiting Myrtle Beach, King's North is a great example of how renovation shouldn't be a total erasure of history. If it's done right, it can't take away the feel. It still feels like an Arnold Palmer classic, only it's a version that's suitable for today's game.

What Will Golfers Notice?

Walking the course now is like coming home to a familiar place and yet seeing it as if for the first time. The routing still makes sense, the striking hazards are still there, but their position makes you stop and think.

"The course has greater depth now. The more you play it, the more you will appreciate what’s there," Johnson said. "If Mr. Palmer were standing on the first tee today, I think he’d recognize the soul of the course and be proud of how far it’s been pushed," he added.

It still feels like an Arnold Palmer classic, only it's a version that's suitable for today's game. That's something almost every experienced player will notice.

Written by

Dolly Bhamrick

Edited by

Sagnik Bagchi