Maples Course

Sunset Beach sits at the southern tip of North Carolina's Brunswick County coast, where the Carolinas' golf corridor thins out toward the South Carolina border. The area around Calabash and Ocean Isle Beach has quietly accumulated one of the densest concentrations of public golf in the American Southeast, drawing retirees, snowbirds, and vacationers who measure their weeks here in rounds played rather than days passed.

The Maples name suggests a course shaped by or named in the tradition of the Maples family, a lineage with deep roots in Carolinas golf design — though without confirmed records of this specific layout's origins, the regional context tells its own story. Brunswick County's terrain is low and coastal, with maritime pines, wetlands, and the occasional tidal creek defining the natural boundaries of nearly every course in the area.

For visiting golfers, Sunset Beach is the kind of place where the pace is unhurried and the calendar fills up fast in spring and fall. A par-72 layout here typically rewards course management over power, with water and wind doing the work the elevation never can.