Myrtle Beach Golf News & Updates

As The First Tee of Coastal Carolinas (TFTCC) prepared Tuesday to kick off the seventh edition of its Future Generations Tournament, event hosts Charlie Rymer and Kelly Tilghman sat down with TFTCC Executive Director Rich Abraham to discuss the impact the event has on helping youth through the game of golf.

With more than 700 participants from nationwide and beyond, the 2019 Family Golf Week events offered a family bonding experience through golf like no other. Check out our recap video, and browse our photo gallery of the winners!

A day of golf at Caledonia Golf & Fish Club is an awe-inspiring experience – from the entry drive majestically shrouded by centuries-old, moss-draped oaks, to the stunning Lowcountry scenery that abounds throughout the renowned Mike Strantz design. You can count each member of Hootie & the Blowfish among those spellbound by its beauty and playability.

The 2019 Family Golf Week “Father of the Year,” Charlie Rymer, spent some time Thursday talking with Father & Son Team Classic participants. The competition is important, but as you’ll see and hear them tell Charlie, the enduring memories and family bonds formed at this event are priceless. Listen in, and check out our photo gallery from Day 3 action at Wachesaw Plantation East!

Sunshine greeted all 706 participants who teed it up Thursday for the first round of the 2019 editions of the Father & Son Team Classic and Parent & Child Team Classic, each part of Family Golf Week being celebrated on seven Grand Strand designs.

Steve Dresser of the Steve Dresser Golf Academy at True Blue Golf Club in Pawleys Island, S.C. demonstrates a simple drill that will help establish efficiency in achieving a square club face at impact during your golf swing.

The Mentor Cup, an event that raises money for the Gene’s Dream Foundation, has secured a hall of fame celebrity commitment for its second annual tournament, which will be held October 26, 2019 at Tidewater Golf Club.

As Family Golf Week in Myrtle Beach prepares to kick off Thursday with first-round action, we go inside the numbers and features of an event that includes far more than the world’s largest father/son competition.

PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com’s Charlie Rymer recently stopped by Glen Dornoch Waterway Golf Links in Little River, S.C., and got a playing tour from Head Golf Professional Ben Acre of its famous par-3 17th Hole, situated scenically along the Intracoastal Waterway.

It speaks volumes to reliability and quality of experience when a Grammy Award-winning recording artist makes your location the centerpiece of its charitable efforts for nearly two decades. And for all the big-name celebrities who’ve been a part of the Hootie & the Blowfish Monday After the Masters Celebrity Pro-Am over the years and done so out of a sense of commitment to the band and their cause, they also come back year after with a heightened sense of anticipation for teeing it up at the area’s premier Pete Dye design.

TPC Myrtle Beach, one of the Grand Strand’s most lauded layouts, has been named the 2019 Myrtle Beach Area Golf Course Owners Association Course of the Year.

PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com’s Charlie Rymer checks in from Lake Tahoe as he wraps up coverage of the American Century Championship. Charlie weighs in on Tony Romo’s impressive golf success, and offers some thoughts on who to watch at this week’s British Open, which returns to Ireland for the first time in 68 years.

This year, the PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur is following three golfers as they pair up with top golf instructors from across the country to improve their game leading up to the event. Gene Chiarella, from Myrtle Beach, S.C., is an 11-year veteran of the World Am and is training with Allen Terrell, swing coach for Dustin Johnson and the director of coaching at the Dustin Johnson Golf School, to improve his golf game. Watch as we follow Gene through his process of preparing for the Myrtle Beach World Am!

More than 120 players from 14 states teed it up today at Rivers Edge Golf Club to kick off the 2019 Calabash Cup, a two-person, 54-hole competition held at three North Strand designs this weekend.

Derek Watson, PGA Professional at Pawleys Plantation Golf & Country Club, fired a tournament-low 65 Thursday – including three consecutive birdies on the finishing holes at Grande Dunes Resort Course – to rally for the win at the 68^th PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com South Carolina Open.