at Chuck’s Steak House on Restaurant Row, Myrtle Beach. Print this coupon and bring it in for one (1) baked French onion soup with purchase of steak entree. Chuck’s Steak House Web Coupon.

• Three rounds with cart on The Witch, The Wizard, Man-O-War
• Three nights’ accommodations in a three-bedroom golf villa (four beds)
• Free steak dinner at Logan’s Roadhouse (includes non-alcoholic beverages, taxes)
• Free lunch and range balls each day
• Two beers at the course daily
• $15 gift card toward a golf shirt
• Instant replay rounds for cart fee only ($23)

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Classic Golf Group will will take over operation of Wedgefield Plantation Country Club in Georgetown on July 1, 2012. Wedgefield joins Founders Club of Pawleys Island, Burning Ridge Golf Club, Black Bear Golf Club and Indian Wells Golf Club in the in the stable of Classic Golf Group courses.

Wedgefield has a classic Lowcountry appearance and terrain with a brick manor house, wetlands and moss-draped live oaks throughout the property. It is a 7,034-yard Porter Gibson and Bob Toski design that opened in 1972.

Classic Golf Group had eight Myrtle Beach area courses before the sales of the Burning Ridge West Course, Quail Creek Golf Club (now the Hackler Course at Coastal Carolina) and International Club of Myrtle Beach resulted in the end of management contracts, and Crown Park Golf Club ended its agreement. The company last added a course with the purchase of Black Bear in 2003.

Several public courses on the Grand Strand are closing this summer to install an ultradwarf Bermudagrass on their greens. Meadowlands, Prestwick Country Club, the King’s North Course at Myrtle Beach National and Barefoot Resort’s Dye Club and Love Course are closing this spring or summer to install ultradwarf Bermuda on greens.

At Meadowlands there will be other changes as well. The top two handicapped holes on the front nine, #3 and #6, are being redesigned. Elsewhere on the course sections of cart path will be rebuilt and repaired, a few new tee boxes may be added, and aesthetics will be improved by adding and improving landscaping.

The course is scheduled to be closed May 24 through approximately Aug. 16. All of the greens will be changed from TifDwarf to the finer-bladed TifEagle Bermuda, which has been used at several Strand courses in the past 10 years.

The changes to holes 3 and 6 are to make them less punishing. The third hole, which measures 408 yards from the white tee – the second tee up from the tips – requires a carry over water on the drive and carry over water to the green, and many can reach the second hazard from the white tee. The hazard will decrease in size to make it harder to reach and to increase the size of the bailout area on the right side of the green.

The dogleg-left sixth hole measures 385 from the white and has an elevated fairway that’s difficult to hold, so the fairway is being lowered and mounding is being added to the right side to shape the hole and keep more drives in play.

The club’s kitchen is being renovated and upgraded with an oven, among other things, to create an expanded menu. Think less snack bar and more of a full-service restaurant.

To learn more about ZERO’s National Father’s Day Golf-A-Thon, Click Here

ZERO Hosts National Father’s Day Golf-A-Thon For The Fight Against Prostate Cancer

Join ZERO – The Project to End Prostate Cancer for the inaugural National Golf-A-Thon on Father’s Day weekend, June 15-17, 2012. Golfers can play any 9-hole or 18-hole golf course from any set of course tees in the world, based on their own schedule. One hundred percent of the funds raised will go toward prostate cancer awareness, research and testing.

“In addition to raising critical funds for prostate cancer research and testing, ZERO’s National Golf-A-Thon will raise awareness of prostate caner on the weekend when we celebrate the men that mean the most to us – our fathers,” said Skip Lockwood, CEO at ZERO – The Project to End Prostate Cancer.

The Golf-A-Thon is open to all golfers, regardless of playing ability, gender or age. It is also both an individual and team competition. Participants play golf based on their own schedules on Father’s Day weekend and are in competition to see which team or individual can raise the most money. Prizes will be awarded to the top three individuals or teams that raise the most money.

Funds are raised for ZERO—The Project to End Prostate Cancer through pledges on holes played. The more holes a participant plays on Father’s Day weekend, the more money they generate to fight prostate cancer. Participants will collect pledges from sponsors for each hole played during the ZERO’s Father’s Day GolfAThon. Signing up is easy and participants receive their own fundraising website to help seek donations from family and friends.

The team or individual raising the most money will win the grand prize trip to the Know Your Score Celebrity Golf Tournament in Myrtle Beach, SC, benefiting prostate cancer awareness, research and testing. The trip includes lodging for four at Pawleys Plantation in Myrtle Beach, SC, four tickets to the VIP celebrity reception, four entries into the celebrity golf tournament, and four tickets to the gala. The runners up will receive ZERO golf apparel. To learn more about Know Your Score, visit www.knowyourscoremb.com.

To register or learn more about ZERO’s National Father’s Day Golf-A-Thon, visit www.zerocancer.org/events/other/events/golfathon.

About ZERO — The Project to End Prostate Cancer (www.zerocancer.org)
As ZERO — The Project to End Prostate Cancer, we commit ourselves not only to reduce prostate cancer or alleviate the pain from the disease but to end it. We see a future where all men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer will be cured or manage their illness with good quality of life, with the support they need to minimize physical and emotional suffering and to cope effectively throughout their cancer journeys.

To accomplish our goal, we increase research funds from the federal government to find new treatments and we fund local grants to end prostate cancer through our national event series, the Great Prostate Cancer Challenge. We conduct free testing through the Drive Against Prostate Cancer mobile testing program and educate patients, families and those at risk.

Phil Ritson and Mel Sole have been doing their part to grow the game of golf, and are now offering free one, two, and three-day teaching programs to youth (age 16 and younger) at their award-winning school at Pawleys Plantation, 30 minutes south of Myrtle Beach. The teaching academy offers a variety of programs to accommodate all skill levels and keeps its class size small to insure personal attention.

The teaching sessions include on-course play in the afternoons for juniors who are accompanied by a paying adult. And if more than one child is enrolling, instruction is just half price for the second child and regular green fees are charged for on-course play. Instruction is available as part of the vacation package when a family stays at the fully-equipped villas on site at Pawleys Plantation or the nearby oceanfront resort of Litchfield Beach and Golf Resort.

Adults pay between $495 and $595 for a three-day instruction school, depending on the time of year.

“We feel that we need to help grow the game and that people should expect first-class instruction at a price they can afford,” said Sole, a former South African PGA Tour player with more than 40 years of teaching experience.

Sole is also a published author on the subject, and his latest book, “Golf Step by Step,” was published in 2003.

The Ritson-Sole Golf School was opened at Pawleys Plantation in 1991. The renowned teachers also have schools in Atlanta; Greenville, S.C.; Ellicottville, N.Y.; and Mexico.

The golf course at Pawleys Plantation is an award-winning Jack Nicklaus Signature design with breathtaking views along the marshland on the final nine holes. It is one of the top courses offered by the National Golf Management group, which owns and/or operates 23 public courses in the coastal South Carolina region.

For more information about the Ritson-Sole Golf School, call (843) 237-4993 or (800) 624-4653, or visit www.ritson-sole.com .

The two largest golf management companies in South Carolina have merged to create National Golf Management, which becomes the 15th largest company of its kind in the country. The joint venture of Burroughs and Chapin Golf Management and Myrtle Beach National Company gives the new company a vested interest in 23 of the 90 golf courses along the 60-mile South Carolina coastal region referred to as the Grand Strand, one of the most popular golf destinations in the world.

The merger comes nearly seven months after the two companies entered into a letter of intent in August 2011. As part of the merger, Bob Mauragas, president of National Golf Management, said that both companies had “captured all the business efficiencies that were possible over the past five years,” so there will be great economies of scale and price stabilization within the market.

Twenty three courses will be controlled in some form by the new company. Fifteen courses will be owned and operated by National Golf Management (NGM). An additional eight Myrtle Beach area courses will be operated by NGM.

The list of courses includes the recently renovated Pine Lakes Country Club, the area’s first golf resort, which opened in 1927 and today is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Also included are highly regarded King’s North at Myrtle Beach National, the Grande Dunes Resort Course, Pawleys Plantation Golf and Country Club and Tidewater Plantation and Golf.

According to a Golf Inc. magazine 2011 study, NGM will also be the 19th largest golf management company worldwide. Each of the merging companies will continue to own other entities in the golf and travel industry, including hotels and golf package companies, as this merger only involves the courses.

“Our goal is to create an entity that will take advantage of the experience, marketing assets and the best practices of both companies,” offered Mauragas.

With more than 40 years of collective experience in golf management and destination marketing, NGM will have greater ability to reach vacationing golfers through a variety of promotional efforts. Both companies have developed extensive databases and customer relations with tens of thousands of golfers throughout North America and beyond.

Burroughs and Chapin has been integrally involved in Myrtle Beach community for more than 100 years, making significant contributions to its development as one of America’s leading vacation destinations. It will continue to operate its expansive residential and commercial developments that make it one of the most experienced and respected firms in the Southeast. Myrtle Beach National compliments that rock-solid business stability with years of golf course management and destination marketing know-how.

The founding families of both companies will remain involved in NGM and they will continue to participate in the development of tourism for the Myrtle Beach area, while keeping an eye on growth opportunities outside the area.

“Our joined efforts and assets will be beneficial to our customers and to the Myrtle Beach area’s efforts to remain the leading golf vacation destination in the nation, remarks Mauragas. “Our goal is to be better, not bigger. It’s clear, the more variety, value and satisfaction we can provide to our customers, the more we can claim a win-win for everyone involved.

In addition to Mauragas, who joined Myrtle Beach National in 2011 and has more than 25 years of executive leadership in the golf industry, the management team of NGM will include Jim Woodring as executive vice president of marketing and interactive services, Mike Turrise as director of human resources and Max Morgan as vice president of agronomy.