There are more than 100 Myrtle Beach golf courses. But on a Myrtle Beach vacation, you might want to stay put. Here is a look at Sea Trail Plantation, an excellent, multi-course resort with golf courses by William Byrd, Dan Maples and Rees Jones.

Donald Trump has made a fortune in realty, but golf course real estate might just be his true passion in life. In 2002 Trump delivered Ocean Trails Golf Club from bankruptcy to one of the finest public golf courses in Los Angeles, Trump National L.A., and is working on a mammoth golf resort in Scotland. He took time to discuss that and more with Senior Writer Chris Baldwin.

The Copperhead Golf Course at the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club near Tampa, Fla., is one of the finest golf resort courses in the country, with no homes to mar the views and a natural routing that unfolds gracefully through terrain that might make you think of Carolina golf.

Tampa's newest boutique golf resort, Emerald Greens boasts 27 holes of Dan Maples-designed golf (and positively decadent air-conditioned golf carts!), plus luxury villas, a spa, restaurants, tennis and aquatic centers, and more.