Let 'er rip at Wicked Stick Golf Links in Surfside Beach, South Carolina

SURFSIDE BEACH, S.C. -- The John Daly-Clyde Johnston collaboration at Wicked Stick Golf Links attracts a lot of attention in several ways.

It's right on the U.S. 17 bypass, a busy thoroughfare through Myrtle Beach, S.C., it's a links-style golf course with plenty of room to let 'em rip and it has the John Daly aura of bad-boy golf.

The combinations work. It's a great let-off-some steam course on which you blast some shots without getting into too much trouble, thanks to mounds that nudge wayward shots back on course and an absence of fairway bunkers. You also can refine your game at the greens, which are beset with huge sand bunkers and scattered pot bunkers. It's a friendly, fun atmosphere for men and women.

At Wicked Stick, it's not hard to imagine yourself as John Daly for a day -- John on a good day.

Wicked Stick Golf Links - holes 7 and 11

Holes No. 7 and No. 11 at Wicked Stick Golf Links share a green, which could lead to some really, really long putts.

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Wicked Stick Golf Links: No. 13 green

Pot bunkers protect the par-3 green on 13 at Wicked Stick Golf Links.

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Wicked Stick Golf Links: No. 14 approach

A mound left of the 14th green at Wicked Stick Golf Links can reject a bump-and-run approach.

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Wicked Stick Golf Links: No. 14

Trees on the right and water on the left require a well placed tee shot on Wicked Stick's 14th hole.

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Wicked Stick Golf Links: No. 15 green

The par-4 15th at Wicked Stick Golf Links is a short little thing, but check your distance off the tee to set up a water carry to the green.

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Wicked Stick Golf Links: No. 17 bunkers

Three mid-fairway bunkers make No. 17 at Wicked Stick Golf Links a strategy hole.

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Wicked Stick Golf Links: No. 17 from the tee

There is a little water at the tee for Wicked Stick Golf Links' short, par-4 17th hole.

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Wicked Stick Golf Links: No. 4

The par-4 fourth hole at Wicked Stick Golf Links has water along the right and a green protected by sand and turf bunkers.

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Wicked Stick Golf Links: No. 5

Wicked Stick Golf Links' fifth hole, a par 3, puts trouble in front and backstop mounds behind the green and save you from going too far.

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Wicked Stick Golf Links: No. 8

The par-5 eighth hole at Wicked Stick saves up most of the trouble for the green, in the form of many, many bunkers.

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Wicked Stick Golf Links: No. 1 green

Several of the bunkers at Wicked Stick Golf Links are deep enough to require stairs.

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