Myrtle Beach Golf News & Updates

The opening of Legends Resort was a seminal moment in the annals of Myrtle Beach golf, bolstering the area’s growing national reputation with an outstanding stay-and-play facility. The Heathland Course, one of three layouts at Legends, launched more than the area’s reputation upon its 1990 opening.

Heathland gave birth to the solo career of one of the game’s most respected architects. Tom Doak, who has since risen to national acclaim, designed Heathland, a links style courses that is as popular and respected today as it was upon its opening.

Legends is a Scottish-inspired resort and Heathland delivers the old country flair for visitors. The course has expansive fairways, lined by heather grass, rolling topography and massive greens.

As one of the area’s only true…

Heathland has been a Myrtle Beach golf favorite since its 1990 opening, wowing players with its playability and beauty. Before you tee it up on one of the only true links style courses in the area, here are five things you need to know. 1. Tom Doak has grown into one the game’s preeminent architects and he launched his career with the design of Heathland. The course was Doak’s introduction to the golf world and it was a spectacular one. 2. Heathland isn’t a true,

Heathland at Legends Resort is one of the only links style courses on the Myrtle Beach golf scene. The sprawling fairways and expansive greens associated with links golf have helped make it one of the area’s most popular layouts.

We asked Legends head pro, Matt Biddington, to identify the Heathland’s three best holes, and after much deliberation – he really struggled with leaving No. 18 out – he delivered a list that’s hard to argue with.

Identifying the best Myrtle Beach golf course is like asking someone to name their favorite flavor of ice cream. There are so many options it’s hard to provide a definitive answer, but Tidewater Golf Club is unquestionably on the short list. Myrtle Beach Golf Buzz host Blair O’Neal pays a visit to one of the area’s best and most scenic layouts. Tidewater is one of only two courses that offers a view of the Atlantic Ocean and numerous holes play along a salt marsh and the Intracoastal Waterway. Enjoy a look at one of America’s 100 best public courses.

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Sea Trail Resort opened its fairways in the late 1980s, a pioneering multicourse resort with layouts designed by high profile architects. Rees Jones, Dan Maples and Willard Byrd crafted courses at the North Strand facility, but Jones is the most recognizable name of the trio and his namesake course is arguably the most popular.

The Rees Jones Course relies on a combination of expansive fairways and challenging greens complexes to deliver a layout that is inviting to high handicappers but

The Myrtle Beach 9-11 Unity Memorial, featuring a piece of ribbon beam from the fallen North Tower of the World Trade Center, was unveiled during a moving ceremony Tuesday evening at Broadway at the Beach.

The ceremony, which was part of the annual friends of the Unity Memorial and the Chicora District of the Pee Dee Area Council, BSA event, included Kevin O’Brien, a retired FDNY firefighter who was at Ground Zero on 9-11, and Theresa Regan, whose husband, a firefighter, died trying

Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday and Myrtle Beach City Officials will unveil the Myrtle Beach 9-11 Unity Memorial, which will feature a piece of ribbon beam from the fallen North Tower of the World Trade Center, on Tuesday, September 11 at 7 p.m. on the 29th Avenue side of Broadway at the Beach.

The public is invited to attend the event free of charge.

The unveiling will be part of the annual ceremony hosted by the friends of the Unity Memorial and the Chicora District of the Pee Dee Area

Two influential businessmen who foresaw Myrtle Beach becoming a worldwide golf destination in the 1970s and worked to develop that vision into a reality are the newest inductees to the Myrtle Beach Golf Hall of Fame.
 
J. Egerton Burroughs and J. Bryan Floyd joined 10 past honorees on Aug. 26 during a dinner celebration at Pine Lakes Country Club, where the Hall of Fame is permanently established in a courtyard next to the grand clubhouse.
 
“It is because of the great

Everyone has heard the saying, “a bad day on the golf course is better than a good day at the office” but some courses are unquestionably more fun to play than others.

With that in mind, in addition to ranking America's 100 Greatest Courses, 100 Greatest Public and the Best in State, Golf Digest asked its panel of expert raters to give each course a “fun” score, and the layouts were ranked based on the results. The result was the recently unveiled list of the

Robert Mieczkowski of Laurance Harbor, N.J., shot a gross 76, good for a net 65, at TPC Myrtle Beach during Friday’s World Championship playoff to win the 29th annual Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship. Mieczkowski bested a field of 74 other flight winners

Major League Baseball legend Roger Clemens, who won his flight, shot a gross 79, good for a net 71 and and a share of ninth place.

The Connors brothers – Chuck, George and Dave – were dispersed across the globe and took up golf at different points in their lives.

By the mid-1990s each had been bitten by the golf bug and was playing on a regular basis, but they had never taken a trip together.

The World Am changed that.

Chuck Connors was working for a government contractor in Wiesbaden, Germany when George, who had been playing in the World Am since 1989, made what proved to be a life altering

Kevin Jones’ World Am experience didn’t start with a recommendation from a friend, an email or a magazine advertisement. The Stafford, Va., resident earned free entry into the 2010 tournament through his local amateur tour and has been hooked ever since.

“I came here and saw this is probably the most fun I’ve had playing golf my entire life, and I had to come back,” Jones said Saturday morning at registration. “There are 3,000 golfers and everybody here

Registration opened this morning at the 29th Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship and it was great to catch up with a couple of our 3,100 players. We talked to a man who traveled for almost 24 hours to get here, a man who hails from the only town in America that lacks a consonant letter in its name (Aiea, Hawaii), and a guy who already already knows his left leg will be shaking on the first

Market Common has grown into one of the area’s most popular destinations for Myrtle Beach golfers, its combination of outstanding dining and nightlife proving a powerful lure. One of the town center-like development’s anchor establishments is Tommy Bahama, a company more immediately recognizable for the quality of its clothing. But the accompanying restaurant at Market Common is one of the area’s best. In this installment of the Myrtle Beach Golf Buzz, host Blair