River Club requires a distinct precision-heavy strategy for the round. But also consider it further evidence that the Pawleys Island course and member of the famed Waccamaw Golf Trail is every bit of a true plantation design. The former rice estate, which recently earned 4.5 Stars from Golf Digest’s “Places to Play”, has also been outfitted with sand traps numbering in the triple digits. Packaged with water, the apparel regulations don’t seem so silly anymore.