Area Golf Tournaments

Basketball legend Julius “Dr. J” Erving, baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgan and former football star Ed “Too Tall” Jones are among the athletes and entertainers enjoying the Myrtle Beach golf experience as part of this weekend’s Know Your Score: Fight Prostate Cancer Celebrity Golf Tournament.

The fourth annual event will be played Saturday, August 18 at Pawleys Plantation, a Jack Nicklaus design that is among the area’s most scenic layouts.

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The on-stage entertainment for the 29th annual Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship is beginning to take shape, and a pair of personalities with national profiles will be among this year’s guests.

Golf Channel analyst Charlie Rymer is returning to the World’s Largest 19th Hole, and he will be joined by Blair O’Neal, a Cobra-Puma staff player who has been called America’s hottest golfer. O’Neal, who plays on the Symetra Tour, is also the host of the

Andrew Marshall had been planning to take a Myrtle Beach golf trip with a few friends from Cleveland.

Little did he know that he would win the perfect weekend on the links for him and a few new friends – Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, co-hosts of the “Mike & Mike In The Morning” show.

The graduate student and cross country assistant coach at Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C., was chosen to meet the TV/radio personalities at the Hootie & the Blowfish Monday After the

Bobby Perkinson of Alcoa, Tn., shot a gross 74 and a net 70 at TPC Myrtle Beach to defend his title at the Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship. Perkinson is the first player in the 28-year history of the World Am to win the title twice, and he earned it with a strong par on his closing hole the ninth, TPC’s toughest. Perkinson unsheathed a 7-wood in the middle of the ninth fairway and delivered the shot of the tournament when the ball came to a rest 10 feet from the cup.  

The final night of the 28th annual Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship has arrived and the tournament’s 3,000 participants can expect to leave with a smile on their face. Golf Magazine columnist and CBS television personality David Feherty is the event’s headlining entertainer for the second consecutive year. One of golf’s wittiest voices, Feherty will bring his irreverent (and insightful) views on the game and life to the World’s Largest 19th Hole

They’ve called themselves the Myrtle Misfits, the Duffers and names that aren’t fit to print on a family website. Nothing has stuck. The only tag that has stuck to Victor Ferreira, Greg Davis, Dennis Navin and their group is a much more meaningful one: friends. Following a round in the 1991 Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship, the trio met at the hotel pool where they were staying and became friends faster than Michael Phelps swims an Olympic race. They come from different

Alan Shipnuck and Michael Bamberger, two of golf’s most popular and accomplished writers, will be holding a book signing at the Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship. Shipnuck and Bamberger will be signing “The Swinger,” a novel they co-authored about a golf star that loses his way, on Tuesday, August 31.

“The Swinger” chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the world’s greatest golfer, a multi-racial icon whose spectacular career is

Military veterans from 33 states flocked to Myrtle Beach for the 12th annual Veterans Golf Classic, and after three sun-splashed days, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Army emerged as the big winners in an event that is as much about camaraderie as it is competition.

The 54-hole tournament features four flights – Eisenhower, Franks, MacArthur and Nimitz – and the field is comprised of two-man teams, at least one of which must be an active service member or a military

Charlotte Country Day’s Al Dickens thought he had lost his chance for an individual title at the Palmetto High School Golf Championship with a bogey, double bogey finish during the final round at Tiger’s Eye golf course. Moments after walking off the 18th green, Dickens learned that his 36-hole total of 144 was good enough to earn a sudden death playoff against good friend Charles Spry of Forsyth Country Day School.

Dickens didn’t squander his second

Bobby Perkinson of Alcoa, Tenn. shot a gross 74 and a net 69 at TPC-Myrtle Beach during Friday’s World Championship playoff, besting 79 other golfers who won their flight. Bob Butler of North Atteboro, Mass., shot a gross 81 and a net 70 to finish second, one shot back. (Full Results)

A 4.4 handicap, Perkinson’s handicap is the lowest to win the event since Dennis Connors, a 3 handicap, won in 1995. Perkinson, who won flight 57 to advance to the World Championship

After three days of golf and a lot of laughs, the 11th annual Veterans Golf Classic came to an end with a pair of familiar celebrations. The 54-hole event featured four flights comprised of two-man teams, but the event’s biggest roars were reserved for the winners of the Carolina Cup and the Branch Challenge. For the second year in a row, the VFW claimed the Carolina Cup in its annual grudge match with the American Legion, and the Air Force won its second straight branch challenge, which

Pinewood Prep coach Greg Baechtle brought his team to the Palmetto High School Golf Championship the previous four years, using the nation’s largest high school tournament as a barometer for the Panthers’ strength. In 2010, the tournament field will use the North Charleston school as its measuring stick.

Led by medalist winner Austin Cody, the 41st ranked junior player in the world, according to Golfweek, the Panthers had three of the top six individual finishers and roared

Paula Morton stood 60 yards from the 18th pin at the famed Dunes Golf & Beach Club with a sand wedge in her hand and the realization that her dream of being crowned World Champion at the PGA TOUR Superstore World Amateur Handicap Championship was potentially slipping away.

Morton, who had just dumped her third shot in the water, took a drop in the rough on a downhill lie and told herself to get the ball close. She did even better, delivering the most dramatic shot in the

The beaches are packed, sunscreen and flotation devices are the most popular items at Wal-Mart, and the family is ready for the annual trip to Myrtle Beach. In years past, the golf bag was about as likely to be part of a summer beach trip as the lawn mower

But times have changed and so have packing habits. Desirable tee times, the widespread acceptance of free golf for juniors and exceptional value have conspired to turn many family vacations into partial golf trips.

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