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Go Deep! Five Big-Hitting Myrtle Beach Golf Courses

Some golfers just can't leave driver in the bag, even on the tightest, tree-lined, O.B.-filled fairway.
For those free-swinging big hitters who never saw a fairway their driver didn't like, we present five Myrtle Beach golf courses Continue...

By Josh Hoke

Man O'War Golf Club in Myrtle Beach: Soak up the challenge

Perhaps no golf course fits better along the Grand Strand than Man O'War Golf Club, featuring a layout with so much water that golfers may believe they are playing on the beachfront. Continue...

Sports Illustrated Golf Group Becomes New Title Sponsor Of The World Amateur Handicap Championship

Sports Illustrated Golf Group And Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday Agree To A Landmark Integrated Marketing Partnership As Si Golf Group Becomes New Title Sponsor Of The World Amateur Handicap Championship Continue...

Cape Fear National at Brunswick Forest: Expect big future

There are some big names behind Cape Fear National. It's managed by Kemper Sports and sits amid Brunswick Forest, a massive development 10 minutes from Wilmington slated for 8,000 homes owned by Lord Baltimore Properties. Continue...

Myrtle Beach Golf: Putt for dough on the Grand Strand's toughest greens

Listen up, masters of the putting game who visit the Grand Strand for your annual golf vacation... Continue...

Puma announces the launch of Puma Golf North America

Puma announced a new partnership to grow the North American golf business with the formation of Puma Golf North America Continue...

Wild Wing Golf Courses Now Under MBN Management

The Myrtle Beach National Company, one of the Myrtle Beach area’s oldest and largest golf course ownership/management companies, announced that it will assume management of the golf courses at Wild Wing Plantation, located in Myrtle Beach. Continue...

Signature Golf Group to Manage River Oaks

Signature Golf Group will be the new management company of River Oaks Golf Plantation, the Myrtle Beach, S.C., -based golf facility management company, has announced. Continue...

Shaftesbury Glen is Golf Course of the Year

The Myrtle Beach Area Golf Course Owner’s Association (MBAGCOA) has named Shaftesbury Glen Golf & Fish Club the 2009 Myrtle Beach Golf Course of the Year. The MGAGCOA evaluates courses on conditions, quality of ownership and management, contributions to the community and efforts to improve the growth of the game. Continue...

Golf Dimensions Opens in Barefoot Resort

Golf Dimensions Superstore has opened a third location. The newest is at the Barefoot Golf Resort – one of the premier golf resorts in the Myrtle Beach area. This is not your typical golf retail operation. It is located right on a deluxe golf practice facility featuring a 35 acre lighted driving range, putting green, and chipping area. Continue...

Direct Flights to Myrtle Beach

Several airlines offer direct flights to and from Myrtle Beach. Officials say Myrtle Beach's affordability makes it a likely candidate to do well as travelers search for bargains. Continue...

Myrtle Beach Area Courses Escape Fire Damage

In late April, 2009, the Myrtle Beach area was the scene of a huge wildfire that grabbed national headlines for a few days. Amazingly, none of the golf courses in the area were burned. Continue...

Zagat: Pawleys Plantation among top golf courses

One of the nation's leading surveyors of American travelers, Zagat, has ranked Pawleys Plantation among the top golf courses in the United States, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico in its recently released 2009/2010 guide, America's Top Golf Courses 6th Edition. Continue...

Zagat: Glens Golf Group courses among best in U.S.

Glen Dornoch and Heather Glen of the Glens Golf Group have been ranked among America's best golf courses in the 2009/2010 edition of Zagat's America's Top Golf Courses 6th Edition. The guide surveyed more than 6,054 avid golfers from the United States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands for the ratings and reviews on over 1,000 public, semi-private and resort courses. Continue...

Carolyn Cudone - Myrtle Beach Golf Pioneer - has died

Carolyn Cudone, one of the pioneers of the Grand Strand golf industry has died at the age of 90 just one week after her induction into the Myrtle Beach Golf Hall of Fame. Continue...

Brunswick Isles Golf Trail Featured in the Sun News

Some courses in Brunswick County have for years felt a little overlooked and neglected when it comes to the general marketing of Grand Strand golf and distribution of play from golf packages. The creation of the Brunswick Isles Golf Trail will likely assuage that sentiment. Continue...

Myrtle Beach Golf Hall of Fame Inducts Six

The Myrtle Beach Golf Hall of Fame was created to honor the men and women who were instrumental in all aspects of the Myrtle Beach area golf industry, from teaching to playing, course design and construction to administration. Individuals were nominated by members of the Myrtle Beach golf industry and the Myrtle Beach Golf Hall of Fame Board of Directors reviewed each nomination before selecting the most outstanding candidates. The six inaugural members of the Myrtle Beach Golf Hall of Fame were honored in a ceremony held on March 12, 2009 at Pine Lakes Country Club. Continue...

Pine Lakes Reopens

Pine Lakes Country Club officially opened to the public on March 14th, 2009 after a 20-month, $15 million project restored the golf course and clubhouse to its former status and early 20th century grandeur as a premier golf resort. The Pine Lakes renovation began in November 2006 with the vision of restoring the golf course as closely as possible to architect Robert White’s original 1927 specifications for the course, then known as the Ocean Forest Country Club... Continue...

Eastport Returns as The Valley Club

The Grand Strand's hot real estate market has caused about 20 courses to be closed and redeveloped since January 2005. Eastport is the first of those courses to come back as a golf course. Continue...

By Bill Woodward

Grand Dunes - 2009 Course of the Year

Grande Dunes Resort Club was selected as the “2009 National Golf Course of the Year” by the National Golf Course Owners Association (NGCOA). The “Course of the Year” Award honors a member that demonstrates four criteria: exceptional quality of the course, exceptional quality of ownership and management, outstanding contribution to its community and significant contribution to the game. Continue...

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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Sea Gull Golf Club Has Become "The Founder's Club"

Sea Gull Golf Club has been redesigned by former Gary Player Design lead architect Thomas Walker and will run largely along the same route, but with new topography and elevation changes, as well as more native and waste areas to set tees, fairways and greens apart. The course has a new name - "The Founders Club at Pawleys Island." Continue...