Marsh Harbour (Calabash, NC)
Ocean Harbour (Calabash, NC)
Heather Glen (Little River, SC)
Angel's Trace North (Sunset Beach, NC)
Angel's Trace South (Sunset Beach, NC)
Fox Run/Barrington Hall Country Club (Macon, GA)
Durham Lakes Golf and Country Club (Fairburn, GA)
The five on the Grand Strand were all perfectly fine courses (I know Tom Doak hated Heather Glen, but while it was definitely not a favorite of mine, I never minded playing there), and Marsh/Ocean Harbour were both better than the majority of courses down there.
The Georgia courses weren't good. Barrington Hall may actually still be open. I know it closed and re-opened multiple times, but the last information I can find about it was in 2015 and it doesn't appear to have a website now, so I assume it's closed. Durham Lakes also may be open -- it closed for a while, then supposedly re-opened (and they do have a website, but it's the same website that existed before the course was closed), but other information says it's still closed. It was a better layout than Barrington Hall and had some pretty good holes, but it's no big loss. There's one more NLE I've played in Georgia but I don't remember the name of it, and it was a horrible course.
Just as some people like strawberry jelly and others grape, I disagree with regards to Durham Lakes. It was a demanding/challenging course. It had a diverse set of par 3's, and even moreso of par 4's. #2 and #9, I particularly remember as being great par 4's; the type to make a 4 and run. The routing could have been a little better, or, maybe just put the clubhouse (what they had of one) in a different spot. Additionally, for those of us that live in the city, it was very close to Atlanta--a 20 minute drive from the city. The conditioning could be suspect, but generally speaking the greens were pretty good and the fairways too, even if a bit longer than most other places. Off the fairway, conditions could be a little "wild".
An interesting thing is the course, I believe, was supposed to be the anchor of the Durham Lakes community. However, the people who bought houses there, either didn't really play golf, or found the course too difficult. The general Atlanta population, I believe also found it too hard. It was no surprise it couldn't sustain it's existence. It closed about 7-10 years ago. Then a guy single handedly, bought the place and started rehabbing it by himself with a Bobcat and hand trimming. It had sat dormant for 2 years or so...so the guy really had his work cut out for him. The amount of clearing that he did was incredible in only about a year and a half. At the point where he started to rebuild the greens and put them in, he suddenly stopped. His social media accounts disappeared and that was that.
That was about 3 years ago. I keep meaning to drive down there to investigate, but I never get around to it.
Other Atlanta metro NLE's, that I've seen disappear since my arrival from the Left Coast in 1995, Atlanta International, The Metropolitan Club (where back in the 60's/70's it was THE club comprised of members from the elite of business, society, politics, and professional sports), and an interesting Joe Lee course on the east side of town just outside the perimeter that I can't recall the name.