Roamward Golf · Architect

Mike Strantz

The maverick artist who built only a handful of courses, each a wild, painterly one-off — Tobacco Road, Caledonia, and True Blue.

7 Mike Strantz courses in the catalog — mark the ones you’ve played and chase the set.

Portfolio atlas

7 courses across 3 states · densest in South Carolina (3). a regional run — a road trip or two covers it.

Courses7
Scope3 states
Playable6
Trophy2
Bulls Bay Golf ClubRoyal New Kent Golf ClubStonehouse Golf ClubTot Hill Farm Golf ClubCaledonia Golf and Fish ClubTrue Blue Golf ClubTobacco Road Golf Club
5 play 1 trophy (playable) 1 private trophy

Bulls Bay Golf Club

Trophy

SC · Awendaw · Private · Par 72

His final original design

Built on a man-made ridge near Charleston, Bulls Bay rises to panoramic Lowcountry views and was the last course Strantz designed before his death. An intensely private capstone.

Private — log it if you’ve played

Royal New Kent Golf Club

$$$

VA · Providence Forge · Public · Par 72

Irish linksland dropped into Virginia

Strantz conjured windswept Ireland out of inland Virginia with fescue-cloaked mounds, vast bunkers, and severe contours. Renovated and reopened in 2019.

Stonehouse Golf Club

$$$

VA · Toano · Public · Par 72

Rock outcrops and forced carries

A sister act to Royal New Kent, Stonehouse tumbles through dramatic elevation change and namesake stone outcroppings. Heavily mounded with ravine carries and big greens.

Tot Hill Farm Golf Club

$$

NC · Asheboro · Public · Par 72

The architect's own favorite

Routed straight through boulders, creeks, and ridges at the edge of the Uwharrie forest, Tot Hill Farm is raw and punishing. Restored with fresh zoysia greens and reopened in 2023.

Caledonia Golf and Fish Club

$$$$

SC · Pawleys Island · Public · Par 70

Oak-lined former rice plantation

Mike Strantz built a short, strategic stunner on an old rice plantation, with a clubhouse approach under a canopy of live oaks. The par-3-heavy closing stretch finishes right by the porch.

Tobacco Road Golf Club

$$$

NC · Sanford · Public · Par 71

Wild sand-mine fever dream

Mike Strantz carved this out of an old quarry and held nothing back, with blind shots, chasms, and greens stretched into shapes that shouldn't exist. You'll either love it or argue about it the whole drive home.

True Blue Golf Club

$$$

SC · Pawleys Island · Public · Par 72

Strantz's bold sandy sibling

Caledonia's wilder sister course, also by Mike Strantz, sprawls across big sandy waste areas and massive greens. Width off the tee, drama around the greens, and great value.

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