North Myrtle Beach opens new Cypress Nook disc golf course

North Myrtle Beach is set to add a new test for local throwers and traveling players when Cypress Nook Disc Golf Course opens at the North Myrtle Beach Park & Sports Complex on Friday, June 26, at 10:00 AM. The 18-hole layout sits in a wooded section of the complex and is built around ancient cypress, slender slash pines and significant elevation changes, giving the city a course that plays more like a technical challenge than a wide-open power track.

Parks and Recreation Director Matt Gibbons said the course is a unique addition to the city’s recreation offerings and should draw both local players and visitors. City officials also said Cypress Nook was the number one requested addition for the park, a detail that helps explain why disc golf landed in the middle of a larger growth plan for the property instead of as a stand-alone amenity.

The course’s design points toward control, shot shaping and placement. In a wooded setting with elevation in the mix, players will have to work lines through the trees rather than simply overpower the holes. That makes Cypress Nook different from the broader park amenities around it and gives North Myrtle Beach another way to compete for disc golfers who plan trips around courses that demand precision.

Access to Hole No. 1 is from the soccer parking lot near the Segway Building, tying the new layout directly into the larger sports complex footprint. The park itself has been expanding since construction began in May 2024 and wrapped in November 2025, adding five soccer fields, six baseball fields, freshwater ponds, walking trails, two playgrounds and picnic shelters.

The timing is notable for a region already building a disc golf identity. Visit Myrtle Beach says the area has nearly a dozen public courses and that the local scene has grown rapidly over the past decade. The complex’s first tournament on the expanded fields in February drew 70 teams from 14 states, and Cypress Nook now gives North Myrtle Beach another piece of infrastructure aimed at sports tourism, not just neighborhood recreation.