Myrtle Beach Golf News

Jean Oberg (North Palm Beach, Fla.) shot a net 67 (gross 89) to become the first woman in 12 years to win the Flight Winners’ Playoff at the PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship Friday at the Grande Dunes Resort Course.

As we’ve seen throughout World Am Week, this one-of-a-kind event attracts an eclectic range of personalities who share the most important trait: an unbridled love and passion for the game of golf. And among all the great World Am participants we’ve either met for the first time or reunited with in 2021, Matt Cardis truly stands out as one-of-a-kind.

Let’s hand out some prizes! Fourth-round results of the 38^th Annual PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship are in, the top finishers have been determined and the flight winners are ready to roll for Friday’s championship round at the Resort Course at Grande Dunes.

It’s the final push to win a flight and qualify for Friday’s playoff at the Resort Course at Grande Dunes, and these golfers at Azalea Sands are not only primed and ready to go for it but having a great time in the pursuit! “The Big Timer” is here to chat them up, and get these golfers’ thoughts on what has made the 38th Annual PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship so special for them.

It was “Moving Day” at the golf courses, and the 19^th Hole at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center featured skills contests, plenty of great food and drink and a sizable contribution to help disabled veterans to highlight Day 3 at the 38^th Annual PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship.

As this year’s event continues to show, you just never know who you’ll run into at the World Am! Charlie checked in for Day 3 action of the 38th Annual PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship at Barefoot Resort & Golf where, among Charlie’s interview guests, the former mayor of Indianapolis, IN was getting ready to tee it up – but not before he shared his funny Fuzzy Zoeller story!

Renowned swing guru Hank Haney made a special appearance Tuesday at “The World’s Largest 19th Hole” for the 38th Annual PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship, highlighting a busy Day 2 that brought more sunny skies and spirited competition on the links to go with plenty of good-spirited, post-round revelry.

Today, it’s the men’s turn at the mic with Charlie Rymer! “The Big Timer” was at West Course at Myrtle Beach National for Round 2 of the 38th Annual PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship, chatting it up with golfers in town from coast to coast. See what they had to say on another picture-perfect day for tournament golf!

Sean “The Beast” Fister of the Dustin Johnson Golf School at TPC Myrtle Beach in Murrells Inlet, S.C. is here to demonstrate how and why his “4-Tee Drill” is an effective means of helping to cure the dreaded slice.

Golfers enjoyed a sun-soaked day on the links for Round 1 play, and descended by the thousands upon “The World’s Largest 19th Hole” Monday at the 38th Annual PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship. Join us for a tour of some of the sights and sounds of the day’s action at Wachesaw Plantation East, Shaftesbury Glen, River Oaks and the Myrtle Beach Convention Center!

Round 1 of the 38th Annual PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship is underway! This morning, Charlie Rymer is chatting it up at Wachesaw Plantation East with the ladies competing in the Senior Women’s Division. As you’ll see, everyone’s pumped up to get underway!

Join “The Big Timer” as his special guest, Sir Nick Faldo, is “Ridin’ with Rymer” at TPC Myrtle Beach to talk Ryder Cup, Sir Nick’s flirtation with playing college golf, the golf media’s portrayal of him at the peak of his PGA TOUR career and more. This all-new episode of “The Charlie Rymer Golf Show” airs tonight, Aug. 30, 8 p.m. ET!

Players have arrived from far and wide, and they’re primed and ready to compete in the largest event field in 13 years! The Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach PGA TOUR Superstore locations on the Grand Strand were packed full of volunteers, event staff and more than 3,500 entrants checking in this weekend for their shot at glory this week in the 38th Annual PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship.

“Smile for the cameras!”

That’s what plenty of our course visitors did this past week along the Grand Strand golf scene – and they were more than eager to share the joy of Myrtle Beach golf on Instagram. Check it out in our weekly roundup!

The time is now for the largest, most fun and most valuable golf tournament on the planet! More than 3,500 participants in the 38^th Annual PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship begin their descent this weekend upon “The Golf Capital of the World” to compete on nearly 60 of Myrtle Beach’s best golf courses. We’re here to be your eyes and ears on the ground throughout World Am Week – and we’re starting off with some of the biggest numbers that stand out about this year’s event, and what they mean.