Traces Golf Club & Shankers Grille

The Meadows-Creekside course at Traces Golf Club in Florence, South Carolina, was designed by James Goodson, a regional architect active in the Carolinas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The layout serves as one of the area's accessible daily-fee options in the Pee Dee region of the state, where golf development expanded considerably during the 1990s and 2000s to accommodate both local play and travelers drawn to the Myrtle Beach corridor. The course name suggests a design that incorporates both open meadowland and water features, a common pairing in South Carolina's coastal plain topography. Florence sits inland from the Grand Strand, where the terrain typically offers gentle elevation changes, sandy soils, and natural drainage corridors that designers often emphasize in routing. Goodson's work in the region generally reflects these landscape characteristics, with holes shaped around existing wetlands and creek systems that provide both strategic interest and environmental buffering. Traces Golf Club operates as a public facility with an attached grille, Shankers, that serves the everyday golfer market in Florence. The club provides a straightforward golf experience without the formality of private membership, catering to residents of this regional hub as well as visitors passing through the I-95 corridor. The course fits within the broader network of moderately priced layouts that sustain recreational golf in smaller Southern cities, offering a playable test for a range of skill levels in a setting shaped by the Lowcountry's characteristic pines, hardwoods, and water.