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Professor Hacker's Dinosaur Adventure Golf, at 701 Highway 17 South in North Myrtle Beach, is a paid outdoor mini-golf attraction with two 18-hole courses, life-sized dinosaur figures and an 85-foot steamship, the fictional R.S. Jurassic Explorer, which the operator describes as a shipwreck.
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Professor Hacker's Dinosaur Adventure Golf life-sized dinosaur sculptures
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Site-level location · 33.8171° N, 78.6803° W
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Life-sized dinosaur figures loom over the putting greens at Professor Hacker's Dinosaur Adventure Golf, on Highway 17 South in North Myrtle Beach. The attraction has two 18-hole courses, the Raptor and the T. Rex, laid out among jungle scenery and waterfalls, and an 85-foot steamship, the R.S. Jurassic Explorer, which the operator describes as a shipwreck. A reviewer who played in 2019 found the ship used both as theming and as part of a hole.
The setting follows a fictional story. According to the attraction, the explorer Professor Duffer A. Hacker crash-landed a hot-air balloon in a canyon in 1930 and found creatures thought to be extinct. Amusement Today reported in 2025 that Professor Hacker's Lost Treasure Golf, the company behind the attraction, began with a single course in North Myrtle Beach in 1995 and now has 12 locations. Explore North Myrtle Beach's 2026 guide to the town's mini-golf courses includes the Dinosaur Adventure course.
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An outdoor, ticketed mini-golf complex in which the dinosaur figures, waterfalls and steamship are part of the courses; the operator suggests about 45 minutes to an hour per course and says much of it is in the sun.
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A business at 701 Highway 17 South, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582, reached through its box office; the dinosaurs are seen by playing the courses rather than from outside.
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