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Video: Luca Holmes of Myrtle Beach, 5, learns Make-A-Wish is sending him to Disney World

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Golf News

NCAA chooses the Myrtle Beach area to host its second golf regional in eight years

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Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa, and 2022 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year Cameron Young played in the last Myrtle Beach regional
Local Golf Tips

Setting Up For An Iron Shot by Steve Dresser, PGA

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Steve Dresser is a PGA of America Class A member with numerous awards including being named a Golf Magazine Top 25 Golf School and...
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Myrtle Beach Golf Hall of Fame welcomes its 2024 class at Pine Lakes Country Club

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They brought membership to 36 when their plaques were added to the Hall of Fame Garden behind the Pine Lakes Country Club clubhouse.
Meet the Pros

Jakob McLamb, Co-Owner/Pro Shop Manager, Meadowlands Golf Club

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Jakob McLamb Co-Owner/Pro Shop Manager – Meadowlands Golf Club Years at the course: 13 Years in the Myrtle Beach market: 13 Years in the golf industry: 17 Birthplace/Hometown: Calabash, North Carolina College: Brunswick Community...
Golf News

World Am recap: A death on the course, a Carolinas winner and curious rules breaches

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The tournament featuring approximately 3,000 players ages 17 to 91 from 17 foreign countries and 49 states was eventful as usual
Local Events

Grand Strand Tournament Calendar 2024

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Upcoming golf tournaments on the Grand Strand: Sept. 6: 3rd Brunsco Classic, Brunswick Plantation & Golf Resort, 9 a.m. shotgun start, flights for men, women...
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These Myrtle Beach area courses are undergoing notable renovations in 2024 without closing

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Tidewater, Prestwick, Myrtlewood, Brunswick Plantation and Legends Resort are among the properties that will receive or have received upgrades
Golf Course Updates

Update: Most Myrtle Beach area courses will reopen Friday or Saturday in the wake of Tropical Storm Debby

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Most courses closed for a minimum of three days as torrential rainfall hit the Grand Strand
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Ever see a green stripped of grass and soil? Watch a major course renovation in a series of videos

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The Byrd Course at Sea Trail Resort is in the midst of a major renovation that includes greens, tees, bunkers and other aspects of the course and property.
Meet the Pros

Jake Benton, Head Professional, Arrowhead Country Club

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Jake Benton Head Professional – Arrowhead Country Club Years at the course: 10 Years in the Myrtle Beach market: 12 Years in the golf industry: 12 Birthplace/Hometown: Myrtle Beach, South Carolina College: Clemson University...
Golf News

The impact a drought is having on Myrtle Beach area courses, and how they are mitigating it

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Course operators breathed a sigh of relief on Friday when sustained heavy rain hit the area for the first time in several weeks
Golf personalities

A Myrtle Beach golf industry lifer is the new interim chamber president. Get to know Tracy Conner

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He has been in the Grand Strand golf business for 34 years, holding several leadership positions
Local Golf Tips

Three-Quarter Iron Shots by Steve Dresser, PGA

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Steve Dresser is a PGA of America Class A member with numerous awards including being named a Golf Magazine Top 25 Golf School and...
Golf News

Golfweek says Myrtle Beach has 13 of the top 20 public courses in SC. What layouts made the cut?

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The recognized Grand Strand courses dot the coastline from Pawleys Island to North Myrtle Beach
Golf News

Your favorite Myrtle Beach area course will close at some point this summer for aeration. See when

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Also, HGTC begins a partnership with the USGA that will help provide young, experienced superintendents to Grand Strand courses
Golf Course Updates

How the Hackler Course at CCU will elevate its standing in the Myrtle Beach golf market

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A new clubhouse and learning center is being constructed in addition to course improvements at the university-owned course.
Local Golf Tips

Greenside Bunker Shot by Scott Tanguay, PGA

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Scott Tanguay is the head of instruction and Callaway club fitting at The Coastal Golf Academy (thecoastalgolfacademy.com) at Whispering Pines Golf Club. He is...
Local Golf Tips

Using The Entire Teeing Ground by Steve Dresser, PGA

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Steve Dresser is a PGA of America Class A member with numerous awards including being named a Golf Magazine Top 25 Golf School and...
Top Story

This amateur tour just brought 555 players to Myrtle Beach and has a growing area chapter

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The player experience includes names and hometowns announced on the first tee, live scoring monitors, and marshals ensuring a good pace of play.
Local Golf Tips

Fairway Bunker Shot by Steve Dresser, PGA

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Steve Dresser is a PGA of America Class A member with numerous awards including being named a Golf Magazine Top 25 Golf School and...
Golf personalities

Golf and hotel leader, innovative digital marketer are joining the Myrtle Beach Golf Hall of Fame

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The two new members were inducted on Sept. 5 at Pine Lakes Country Club and bring hall membership to 34.
Local Golf Tips

Bunker Shot by Steve Dresser, PGA

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Steve Dresser is a PGA of America Class A member with numerous awards including being named a Golf Magazine Top 25 Golf School and...
Golf News

Long Bay Club reopens after a renovation project. See what was done to the Jack Nicklaus layout

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Long Bay Club has reopened with new TifEagle ultradwarf Bermudagrass greens after a three-month improvement project.
Golf News

What the PGA Tour’s Myrtle Beach Classic tournament director had to say in a video interview

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Myrtle Beach Classic tournament director Darren Nelson sat down for an interview with On The Green Magazine on Aug. 10 at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club.
Local Golf Tips

Greenside Chip Shot by Steve Dresser, PGA

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Steve Dresser is a PGA of America Class A member with numerous awards including being named a Golf Magazine Top 25 Golf School and...
Golf Travel

What the tournament operator, director have planned for the PGA Tour’s new Myrtle Beach Classic

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A party and games area near the 17th green and 18th tee called The Grove, and two pro-ams are part of the preliminary plans for the event
Golf News

The PGA Tour’s Myrtle Beach Classic will be held in May ’24 and coincide with another Carolinas event. The details

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The first PGA Tour event on the Grand Strand will be held at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club and will be broadcast on Golf Channel.
Golf personalities

Myrtle Beach golf industry loses a longtime contributor, builder and leader

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He was involved in golf course building and operation, publishing and marketing, and served in several leadership roles.
Local Golf Tips

Low Pitch Shot by Scott Tanguay, PGA

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Scott Tanguay is the head of instruction and Callaway club fitting at The Coastal Golf Academy (thecoastalgolfacademy.com) at Whispering Pines Golf Club. He is...
Golf News

World’s largest golf tournament still going strong in Myrtle Beach after 40 years

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The event will be played Aug. 28 to Sept. 1 on 52 Grand Strand golf courses.
Local Golf Tips

Soft Pitch Drill by Scott Tanguay, PGA

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Scott Tanguay is the head of instruction and Callaway club fitting at The Coastal Golf Academy (thecoastalgolfacademy.com) at Whispering Pines Golf Club. He is...
Golf Business

‘We’ve got a diamond.’ Why Sea Trail Golf Resort is set to become Sunset Beach’s epicenter

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An extensive plan to rejuvenate the three-course, 2,000-acre resort has been approved by the Sunset Beach town council.
Local Golf Tips

Long Putts Drill by Karsten Kenley

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Karsten Kenley has been an instructor at Classic Swing Golf School at Legends Golf Resort, where he began teaching in September 2021. He played...
Must Reads

How a historic golf property south of Myrtle Beach has been revitalized, and what’s next

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The 50-year-old course was closed from 2016-18 but new owners are upgrading multiple facets of the club.
Golf Travel

Myrtle Beach will host its first PGA Tour golf tournament in 2024. The details

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The seemingly unattainable has become attainable, and the long wait is over. Myrtle Beach will host its first PGA Tour event next year. The inaugural Myrtle...
Local Golf Tips

Short Putting Drill by Karsten Kenley

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Karsten Kenley has been an instructor at Classic Swing Golf School at Legends Golf Resort, where he began teaching in September 2021. He played...
Meet the Pros

Randy Broughton, Director of Golf, Man O’War Golf Club

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Randy Broughton Director of Golf - Man O'War Golf Club Years at the course: 15 Years in the Myrtle Beach market: 42 Years in the golf industry: 42 Birthplace/Hometown:...
Golf Course Updates

Why one of the newest golf courses in the Myrtle Beach market will close for renovations

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The course opened in 2007 and will transition from bentgrass greens to Bermudagrass, with an anticipated reopening in early September
Golf News

The best ever? How the Myrtle Beach golf market fared during the important spring season

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The game's resurgence since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic is looking more sustainable as time passes
Golf News

Will the next Michael Block emerge? Carolinas PGA hosts major championship on the Grand Strand

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The top 10 finishers in the CPGA Professional Championship completed Thursday in Murrells Inlet qualify for the 2024 national PGA club pro championship.
Must Reads

‘I still can’t believe it’s open.’ How a golf course outside Myrtle Beach was revived after 13 years

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One former employee kept the layout maintained for 11 years hoping a buyer would arrive and reopen the course.
Golf Travel

Believe it or not, Ripley’s has opened a miniature golf course in Myrtle Beach that is creative and bold

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The miniature course gives Ripley's five affiliated attractions on Ocean Boulevard as well as an aquarium at Broadway at the Beach.
Golf News

Why CCU men’s golf coach Jacob Wilner is so excited about his 2023 signing class. Who is coming?

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A pair of transfers who are expected to make an immediate impact, one of the top juniors in Europe, and the son of a...
Golf personalities

This son of a former world No. 1 golfer has signed to play at Coastal Carolina. His story

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The graduate of the International Junior Golf Academy in Florida is taught by former Myrtle Beach instructor Hugh Royer III.
Meet the Pros

Anthony Little, Head Professional, Pawleys Plantation

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Anthony Little Head Professional - Pawleys Plantation Years at the course: 4 Years in the Myrtle Beach market: 7 Years in the golf industry: 7 Birthplace/Hometown: Erie, Pennsylvania College: Penn...
Local Golf Tips

Lag Putting Drill by Scott Tanguay, PGA

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Scott Tanguay is the head of instruction and Callaway club fitting at The Coastal Golf Academy (thecoastalgolfacademy.com) at Whispering Pines Golf Club. He is...
Golf News

Single and play golf? An organization for you has been revived in the Myrtle Beach market

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The American Singles Golf Association is back on the Grand Strand after disbanding about a decade ago.
Golf personalities

How a Myrtle Beach former Marine plans to use golf to help other veterans overcome adversity

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Eric Fisher is getting into the golf business to help himself, and help others. Specifically, other veterans who might be going through the same travails...
Golf News

Here is what South Carolina’s PGA Tour members think of Myrtle Beach getting an event

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There are more than a half dozen players on the PGA Tour who are natives and/or residents of South Carolina. Many of them gave their...
Local Golf Tips

Soft Pitch Shot by Steve Dresser, PGA

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Steve Dresser is a PGA of America Class A member with numerous awards including being named a Golf Magazine Top 25 Golf School and...
Must Reads

RBC Heritage: Idyllic decompression? Not in 2023, maybe not again for SC’s PGA Tour stop

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The tour's annual wind down from the Masters Tournament at Augusta National has taken on a new identity this year with a $20 million purse and the world's top players.
Golf Travel

South Carolina is the top golf destination in the U.S. in 2023, according to this travel organization

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South Carolina, led by the Myrtle Beach area, is the top golf destination in the United States in 2023, according to one travel organization. The...
Golf Travel

How getting to Myrtle Beach for the spring golf season has gotten easier

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Getting to Myrtle Beach for the spring golf season has become easier for players from numerous parts of the country with the creation or...
Golf Business

‘It almost feels like you’re trespassing.’ Night golf has come to the Myrtle Beach area

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The first event was held on March 1, and the second is scheduled to be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Beachwood Golf Club.
Golf Business

Hootie Monday After the Masters to feature El Duque, Sabathia and Daly, but not spectators. See why

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Former New York Yankees C.C. Sabathia, Orlando ‘El Duque’ Hernandez and Jim Leyritz are scheduled to participate in the 27th Hootie & the Blowfish...
Featured Articles

The Myrtle Beach area will be inundated with some of the top college golfers in the country

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Both The Dunes Golf and Beach Club and Surf Golf and Beach Club are hosting college tournaments on Monday and Tuesday.
Local Golf Tips

Lag Putting Drill by Steve Dresser, PGA

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Steve Dresser is a PGA of America Class A member with numerous awards including being named a Golf Magazine Top 25 Golf School and...
Golf Course Updates

How a North Strand golf resort will be revitalized with a new hotel, other amenities

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A 150-room hotel, driving range featuring Toptracer technology, and practice and entertainment facility are planned, and a 50,000-square-foot convention center will reopen.
Golf Business

New Myrtle Beach gentlemen’s club promises an experience beyond attractive women

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An entertainer performs at Lust Ultra Gentlemen's Club, which has opened on Seaboard Street in Myrtle Beach. (Photo by Janet Janet Morgan, janet.morgan@myhorrynews.com)
Golf Business

Tiger Woods is returning to Myrtle Beach with this golf-related business

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Tiger Woods is bringing a business to Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach. Woods is an owner of PopStroke, a restaurant, bar and golf...
Top Story

A PGA Tour event in Myrtle Beach? There are discussions between the tour and local officials

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The Grand Strand has never hosted a PGA Tour event, but might have one as early as 2024.
Golf Business

‘This saved my life’: Charlie Rymer continues promotion of Myrtle Beach golf after arduous cancer battle

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The Murrells Inlet resident is promoting Myrtle Beach golf for the fifth consecutive year in 2023.
Top Story

Myrtle Beach golf rounds interrupted: Video of fighter jets downing Chinese balloon

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A U.S. military fighter jet shot down a Chinese balloon over the skies of Myrtle Beach just off the coast around 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 4, causing a loud boom and spectacle for golfers.
Meet the Pros

Mike DeLuca, Wachesaw East, head professional

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Mike DeLuca Head Professional - Wachesaw Plantation East Years at the course: 6 Years in the Myrtle Beach market: 17 Years in the golf industry: 17 Birthplace/Hometown: Poughkeepsie, New...
Local Golf Tips

Around the World Putting Drill by Scott Tanguay, PGA

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Scott Tanguay is the head of instruction and Callaway club fitting at The Coastal Golf Academy (thecoastalgolfacademy.com) at Whispering Pines Golf Club. He is...
Top Story

An industry revived: How Covid continues to boost Myrtle Beach golf rounds

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The pandemic has led to the market's two best years for rounds played in more than a decade
Local Golf Tips

Short Putts Drill by Steve Dresser, PGA

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Steve Dresser is a PGA of America Class A member with numerous awards including being named a Golf Magazine Top 25 Golf School and...
Meet the Pros

Marc Guertin, Caledonia, head professional

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Marc Guertin Head Professional - Caledonia Golf & Fish Club Years at the course: 23 Years in the Myrtle Beach market: 30 Years in the golf industry: 30 Birthplace/Hometown:...
Golf Travel

Myrtle Beach shows resiliency as most golf courses open in immediate aftermath of Hurricane Ian

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Nearly every Myrtle Beach area course reopened just days after Hurricane Ian made landfall along the Grand Strand on Sept. 30. Although the storm brought...
Golf personalities

‘A big guy with a big laugh and a big smile.’ Myrtle Beach golf industry mourns loss of pro at 45

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Longtime Indigo Creek head pro AJ Sawyer died last week at the age of 45, leaving behind a wife, two teenage children and a grieving Myrtle Beach golf industry.
Articles

No golf in Myrtle Beach? Courses shut down Christmas weekend to preserve spring conditions

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GOLF COURSES IN THE MYRTLE BEACH AREA ARE CLOSING FOR A FEW DAYS AND MANY ARE COVERING GREENS TO PROTECT THEM FROM DAMAGE.

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