Myrtle Beach Golf News & Updates

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.
 
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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

Rees Jones has worked on courses that have hosted multiple U.S. Opens, Ryder Cups and PGA Championships, so he has crafted many quality layouts, including his work on the Jones Course at Sea Trail Plantation.

We assigned Sea Trail’s head pro, Eddie Pratt, the difficult task of identifying Jones’ best work at Sea Trail, and Pratt, after much thought, provided us the three best holes on the Jones Course, one of two Myrtle Beach golf courses he has designed.

Basketball legend Julius “Dr. J” Erving, baseball Hall of Famer Joe Morgan and former football star Ed “Too Tall” Jones are among the athletes and entertainers enjoying the Myrtle Beach golf experience as part of this weekend’s Know Your Score: Fight Prostate Cancer Celebrity Golf Tournament.

The fourth annual event will be played Saturday, August 18 at Pawleys Plantation, a Jack Nicklaus design that is among the area’s most scenic layouts.

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The Grand Strand is home to more than a thousand restaurants, so it’s not easy for a new establishment to earn immediate acceptance as one of the best, but the area’s newest steakhouse has done just that. 21 Main, located at North Beach Plantation, has taken its seat alongside New York Prime and Ruth’s Chris as the area’s best places to order a steak. In this installment of the Myrtle Beach Golf Buzz, host Blair O’Neal gives you an inside look at 21 Main and a

Market Common is a trendy urban shopping district, and it tastes like one too.

Featuring some of the Grand Strand's best dining, Market Common is a great place to go for a night out on your next Myrtle Beach golf trip.

Here are five restaurants in Market Common where you can't go wrong:

* Divine Prime is Market Common’s answer to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse and New York Prime, featuring an extensive selection of Grade A Prime cuts of meat and fresh seafood.

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