Myrtle Beach Golf News & Updates

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

The Byrd Course at Sea Trail is the youngest of the facility’s three layouts, and, arguably, its best. If you are looking to maximize your enjoyment, on and off the course, at the Sunset Beach, N.C., resort, here are a few tips. 1. Think First: The Byrd Course isn’t exceptionally long (6,750 yards from the blue tees, 6,251 from the whites), and as a result, it’s not a layout that rewards players for mindlessly pounding the driver off every tee. Survey each hole and know

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.

Father's Day is coming up and this will be my first one without my biological father.  My step-dad raised me and he is very much alive and kicking but my biological father passed away back in May. 

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For many people, golf is a game passed down through family, a means to bond in good times and bad. One of the game’s great celebrations of its familial roots – the Father-Son Team Classic – is quickly approaching. The 13th annual tournament, which is open to any father-son type relationship, including grandfather-son, stepson-father and son-in-law (uncle)-nephew, will take place in Myrtle Beach July 22-24. More than 1,200 golfers will come to the Grand Strand to play one of

Representatives of Burroughs & Chapin Company, Inc. and Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday inducted two golf industry leaders into the Myrtle Beach Golf Hall of Fame during a ceremony at Pine Lakes Country Club today. The Hall of Fame was created in 2009 to honor the men and women who have played significant roles in all aspects of the Myrtle Beach area golf industry, including teaching, playing, course design, construction, marketing and administration. “The Myrtle Beach Golf Hall of Fame is

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.It’s getting close to World Am time. And I can’t wait to get to the World’s Largest 19th Hole. This will be my fourth consecutive year and I’m looking forward to seeing familiar faces and smiles. Isn’t that really what the World Am is all

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

Participants in the 59-man J.J. Elliott Memorial Golf Tournament filled the deck at World Tour, heckling their friends as they played the final shots of a 126-hole golf outing on a sun-drenched afternoon in Myrtle Beach.

Who was winning and losing wasn’t as important as the experience for one of the more unique Myrtle Beach golf groups. The group, which started as a handful Washington, D.C. policemen 32 years ago, has grown to include members of the military, FBI, CIA and their