Myrtle Beach Golf News & Updates

Forget everything you have ever been told about how to grip a golf club. That is the advice from Brad Redding, one of Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Teachers and the director of instruction at the Grande Dunes Golf Academy, in this edition of Nature Valley’s Tips From the Pro.

Welcome to Charlie's Corner, the blog home for Golf Channel analyst Charlie Rymer. A lifelong Myrtle Beach golfer, Rymer, with his characteristic wit and unique perspective, will be weighing in on all things golf for Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday.

As a former player, watching Dustin Johnson finish out at the PGA Championship was gut wrenching.  He clearly had no idea he was in a bunker. 

I understand all the arguments surrounding the incident.  Many people point out that

The Myrtle Beach Golf Hall of Fame was created in 2008 by Golf Holiday along with the Burroughs and Chapin company. The Hall of Fame was designed to pay tribute to the individuals that have helped mold and grow the Myrtle Beach golf industry over the years.

In 2009, the Hall of Fame celebrated it's inaugural year along with the reopening of Pine Lakes Country Club. That year, six individuals were inducted into the Hall of Fame. Two more were added in 2010 and even more will be

Golf Magazine unveiled its biennial ranking of America’s best public courses and the best each state has to offer in its September issue, and the Myrtle Beach area was, again, well represented.

Three Grand Strand courses, led by Caledonia Golf & Fish Club, earned a spot on Golf Magazine’s prestigious “Top 100 Courses You Can Play” list. Caledonia was ranked No. 28, followed by the Dunes Club at No. 48, and the Love Course at Barefoot Resort at No. 86.

For

In this installment of Nature Valley’s Tips from the Pro, Brad Redding, the director of instruction at Grande Dunes Golf Academy , walks you through four essentials of putting. Redding’s essentials are easy to understand and implement and will improve your putting.     

The summer of 2010 is one that won’t soon be forgotten at Sandpiper Bay Golf & Country Club. The Sunset Beach, N.C., course just captured one of the area’s most prestigious honors, winning the Myrtle Beach Area Golf Course Owner’s Association Course of the Year Award.

The good times at Sandpiper didn’t conclude with the announcement of the award. On August 2, Sandpiper will reopen the Bay 9, concluding a three-year project that saw the facility install new

So you want to be crowned the King of Myrtle Beach? If you are hanging with the VB Golf Crew, it’s going to require a superlative effort, on and off the course. Sure, it helps to go low, but with John Barry and his buddies you better not go to bed early if you plan to return home with the hardware. The fun-loving bunch from Virginia Beach has known each other since high school, and they come to the Grand Strand to relieve old memories and create new ones. The winner of the three-foot tall

Welcome to Charlie’s Corner, the blog home for Golf Channel analyst Charlie Rymer. A lifelong Myrtle Beach golfer, Rymer, with his characteristic wit and unique perspective, will be weighing in on all things golf for Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday. I never, not in my wildest dreams, thought I would be putting makeup on to earn a living at the age of 42.  Well, for this past year and a half that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. And I gotta tell you…it’s not that bad, at least once you get used

Golfweek magazine’s team of raters fan out across the nation each year, playing America’s best golf courses and filing ratings reports. Out of those reports spring the magazine’s rankings of the country’s top 100 classic and modern courses, in addition to a breakdown of the best layouts in each state.

Golfweek’s 2010 rankings reaffirmed what most already knew: a Myrtle Beach golf trip offers unparalleled quality. Myrtle Beach’s two most decorated courses

Reading greens is among golf’s trickiest tasks, but Classic Swing Golf School’s Ted Frick shows you how  to properly survey a putt in this installment of Nature Valley’s Tips From the Pro. Whether you are having trouble determining speed, break or where to aim, Frick has advice that will shave strokes off your score.

Millions of people make a summer pilgrimage to Myrtle Beach, most of them to enjoy sun, sand and a taste of life on the coast. While area beaches are teeming with people, Myrtle Beach golf courses often use the “down time” for improvement projects, and this summer is no different.

A pair of North Strand Courses – Panther’s Run at Ocean Ridge Plantation and the Bay Course at Sandpiper Bay Golf & Country Club, home of three nine hole layouts – are closed for

Welcome to Charlie’s Corner, the blog home for Golf Channel analyst Charlie Rymer. A lifelong Myrtle Beach golfer, Rymer, with his characteristic wit and unique perspective, will be weighing in on all things golf for Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday.I just finished up my third consecutive week on the road.  After back-to-back weeks covering the LPGA at the State Farm Classic and the ShopRite Classic, it was off to Hartford for the Travelers Championship on the PGA Tour. I was on the road solo for

Wachesaw Plantation East is only 14 years old, but the South Strand course impacted the Myrtle Beach golf scene immediately upon its opening and hasn’t looked back. There are a lot of things people should know about Wachesaw, and here are five of the best.

Wachesaw Plantation East hosted four LPGA Tournaments and has been named the Myrtle Beach Golf Course Owner’s Association Course of the Year, so the quality of the layout is strong. But what are the Clyde Johnston design’s three best holes? For the answers to that question, we went to a man who has faced high stress situations in the past, Wachesaw’s head pro, Rob Mosser, a former closer for the University of South Carolina baseball team. Mosser faced the heat of our

The Byrd Course at Sea Trail Resort is a shot-makers haven, rewarding intelligence and golf course management. Due to the nature of the layout, its three best holes are, even more so than usual, in the eye of the beholder.

But few people have seen the course as much as head professional Eddie Pratt. So we put the friendly Carolinian on the hot seat and he delivered, naming the three best golf holes on the Byrd Course at Sea Trail.

No. 7, 190-yard, par 3: The seventh hole is