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The PGA TOUR Superstore World Amateur Handicap Championship

All that you have come to love about the event will stay the same for 2008. About 4,000 Amateur golfers all competing for the chance to become World Champion regardless of age, gender, or playing ability, the USGA Handicap system makes us all EQUAL. BUT?? there will be some great additions and changes that will enhance your enjoyment of the event.. PRIZES will take on a whole new meaning with PGA TOUR Superstore as your title sponsor, in fact the event will distribute over $130,000 in gift certificates for the Top Ten finishers in each flight!

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Linda Hartough Once More, With Feeling

As the 2005 United States Open came again to Pinehurst's famed #2 course, it marked the 16th consecutive Open immortalized by painter Linda Hartough. No one is more passionate about her work or captures the spirit of the game quite like this renowned golf landscape artist.

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The Striking Viking Ewa Mataya Laurance

Since her early teens, Ewa Mataya Laurance has been relentlessly pursuing the act of hitting a ball with a stick. First in billiards, and now in golf, that pursuit has brought the woman known around the world as “The Striking Viking” from a small town in Sweden to Myrtle Beach, and a life that for her, becomes more perfect with every passing day. For more than two decades, much has been written about the Hall of Fame billiards career of Ewa Mataya Laurance, a career that started in the city of Gavle, about 2 hours north of Stockholm, on a day when then 14 year-old Ewa Svensson followed her older brother Mats into a poolroom.

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Golf - A Passion and a Business

By Greg Walker

Dramatic population increases have occurred in the past decade in the three-county area that comprises the Grand Strand region. North Carolina’s Brunswick County, as well as Horry and Georgetown counties in South Carolina, are all among their states’ fastest-growing areas, with often-explosive increases in lot sales and building permits.

Nearly all of the 14 area golf courses that have already closed or are wrapping up operations this year will be the setting of future residential development. Most notable on that list are the three courses at Bay Tree Golf Plantation, a family-run operation for 30 years in North Myrtle Beach, and three of the four layouts at Wild Wing Plantation in nearby Conway.

“Wild Wing had a great run as a four-course public golf facility,” said Tim Tilma, General Manager and Director of Golf for the Wild Wing Company. “Our new owners are very successful local developers who recognize the need for a first-class residential community in the Conway area. We’re going to have about 700 single-family homesites with a great selection of waterway lots with boat slips.”

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Play Where You Stay: Myrtle Beach is Four Golf Destinations in One

The Myrtle Beach area and The Grand Strand are synonyms for a 60-mile stretch of the Atlantic coast that straddles the state line between North and South Carolina. As a golfer, if you know only one thing about the region, it’s probably this: There are more than 100 golf courses in the Myrtle Beach area. That’s a lot of golf.

In fact, that’s over 2,000 separate golf holes by the time you factor in the 27-hole layouts. If you’re lucky, that’s about 4,000 total putts, plus the roughly 4,000 swings that you’d need to reach all of those greens. If you played non-stop and finished every hole in 10 minutes, it would take you a little over 333 consecutive hours or just shy of 14 whole days and nights without a break. That’s a lot of golf.

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