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A Pastor, a Doctor and an Engineer

A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers.
Engineer: What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!
Doctor: I don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude!
Pastor: Hey, here comes the greens keeper. Let's have a word with him...

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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 World Magazine Honors Local Golf Resorts

The readers of Golf World Magazine have chosen the 50 best public, private and resort facilities in the country for 2009. Three Myrtle Beach area courses – Shaftesbury Glen, Pawleys Plantation, and Sea Trail – were selected as part of the “Resort” list. These local courses share list with other resort courses like Pebble Beach, Pinehurst, Harbour Town, Innisbrook, and Doral.

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Golf Holiday's Choices for Top 5 Restaurants in Myrtle Beach

Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday, the marketing cooperative of the Grand Strand's golf courses has compiled a panel and narrowed the choices into Top 5 lists in four categories: hot wings, bars, steaks and, of course, seafood buffets. Here, according to GolfHoliday.com, then, are the best of the best.

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How Real Is That Golf Course Photo?

Have you ever looked at a photo of a beautiful golf course and wondered, “Is the course REALLY that perfect?” After all, photos can be faked, right? What about this Photoshop thing we’ve heard about? Enhancing golf photos is probably more common than you think. Let’s discuss it a little and see some examples . . .

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