Features

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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The Striking Viking Ewa Mataya Laurance

By Bill Woodward

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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A Golfer in Ireland...

A golfer in Ireland hit a bad slice into the woods. Looking for His ball, he discovered a leprachaun flat on his back, a big bump on his head and the golfer's ball beside him. Horrified, the golfer took his water bottle from his bag and helped the little fellow to drink, eventually reviving him.

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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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