Myrtle Beach Golf News & Updates

Legends Resort is one Myrtle Beach’s most prominent multi-course facilities. With its memorable, Scottish themed clubhouse and three highly regarded courses, the opening of Legends was a seminal one for the Myrtle Beach area. Heathland and Parkland were the first two layouts to open in 1990, followed by Parkland in 1992.  The popularity of all three layouts has proven durable, due in part to the different experience that each offers. 

Alan Shipnuck and Michael Bamberger, two of golf’s most popular and accomplished writers, will be holding a book signing at the Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship. Shipnuck and Bamberger will be signing “The Swinger,” a novel they co-authored about a golf star that loses his way, on Tuesday, August 31.

“The Swinger” chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the world’s greatest golfer, a multi-racial icon whose spectacular career is

The Avocet Course at Wild Wing Plantation is once again in full flight. The Myrtle Beach golf course reopened all 18 holes on August 1 after the installation of new Mini-Verde greens and the early returns are outstanding.

Wild Wing completed the project in two phases, allowing the facility to offer golfers 18 holes (using the Hummingbird nine) throughout the summer.

The front nine was replaced first, a three-week process that went flawlessly and concluded with its reopening the second

Myrtle Beach is at the heart of the Grand Strand’s entertainment scene. From “March Madness” in the spring, to football in the fall, here are the top five seeds (the best places to watch a game) in Central Strand Region. See the top 5 sports bars on the South and North ends too!)1. Broadway Louie’s – Located at Broadway at the Beach, the epicenter of Myrtle Beach nightlife, Broadway Louie’s is home to a 27-foot projection screen, the area’s largest. That

Sports bars on the South Strand are plentiful – and though the choices offered are good, but they don’t receive quite the acclaim as they do in Myrtle Beach. The South Strand is known for its casual pace and upscale golf and dining options, but there are still a host of establishments that offer an inviting atmosphere to watch a game. Here are the top 5 Sports Bars on the South end to watch a game. (Check out the top 5 sports bars list for the Central Myrtle Beach, and the North End

The North Strand has grown into a golf and entertainment powerhouse in recent years, earning its spot as a good time destination. If you’re looking to settle in and catch a game at a good sports bar, here’s where to start: (see the list for Central Myrtle Beach and the South End too) 1. Overtime Sports Café – The area’s best sports bar is also the best place to watch the tournament. The North Myrtle Beach establishment has 150 televisions, including a 12-foot video wall, and

The PGA Championship is underway so what better time to take a look at the strong connections between the game’s final major and the Myrtle Beach golf scene?

Seven players who have hoisted the Wannamaker Trophy have designed Myrtle Beach golf courses, including some of the area’s best.

Here is a look at the work past PGA champions have done along the Grand Strand.

John Daly – Much like Long John himself, Wicked Stick encourages a grip it and rip it brand of golf. The

The installation of new greens at Barefoot Resort’s Fazio Course was as smooth as it was successful. The Fazio Course closed in late-May for the installation of Champion Bermuda grass greens and reopened, ahead of schedule, on July 13.

“The new greens are 100 percent grown-in and rolling terrific,” Mike Ross, Barefoot’s director of golf, said. “They aren’t to firm or too soft. We feel it’s almost a new golf course.”
 

Ross’

True Blue Golf Plantation features everything one would expect from a Mike Strantz golf course: wide fairways, sprawling bunkers, a touch of visual deception, and the land is a canvas for Strantz’s work, which is, as always, a blend of art and architecture.

At True Blue, depending on the perspective of the player, there are 18 potential signature holes. It’s one of Myrtle Beach’s best golf courses, and we asked Bob Seganti, True Blue’s director of golf, to name the best of the best at the South Strand facility.

The roar is being restored on the greens at Ocean Ridge Plantation’s original Big Cat. Lion’s Paw Golf Links is installing new Mini-Verde greens this summer.

The first of Ocean Ridge’s four layouts, Lion’s Paw began making the conversion the second week of July and is scheduled to reopen on August 30. The greens have already been conditioned and sprigged and the process is off to a fast start.

The work at Lion’s Paw comes on the heels of Panther’s

Myrtle Beach’s newest golf course wasted little time rising to the top of the leaderboard. Founders Club, a South Strand gem, has earned 2011 Myrtle Beach Area Golf Course Owners Association Course of the Year honors. “To be selected the best among the abundance of golf courses in the Myrtle Beach area is a tremendous honor,” said Tommy Smothers, general manager of Classic Golf Group. “Founders Club has only been around for three years and it is always in impeccable

What do Baltusrol Golf Club, Medinah, Congressional Country Club and many of America’s most renowned public and private facilities have in common?They have all reaped the benefits Coastal Carolina University’s Professional Golf Management program.  Home to one of just 20 PGM programs nationally, Coastal’s thriving internship program annually disperses its students to the best courses along the Grand Strand and beyond.Coastal students are parlaying their degrees into

Litchfield Country Club is a testament to the virtues of good, traditional golf course architecture. An ideal blend of doglegs – left and right – have helped conspire to create a layout that doesn’t rely on length as its sole means of defense. Litchfield Country Club rewards creativity, and it gives players a chance to score. Before teeing it up on one of the area’s friendliest courses, here are five things you need to know. More Ways To Get Home: Unlike courses

Litchfield Country Club combines a traditional design and a mature setting to deliver a memorable round of golf. The dean of South Strand layouts, Litchfield is a pure test of golf.

The course is straight-forward and manages to challenge without overwhelming players. With that in mind, we asked Litchfield’s head pro Christa Bodensteiner to tell us the venerable layout’s three best holes.

Below are her answers:

No. 4, 202-yard, par 3 – A well struck long iron is a

The Carolinas Amateur Championship, signature event of the Carolinas Golf Association (CGA), heads back to the famed Dunes Golf & Beach Club in Myrtle Beach, SC, July 14-17.The 97th Carolinas Amateur will be the sixth held at the Dunes Golf & Beach Club.  The first Carolinas Amateur was played at Sans Souci Country Club (now Greenville CC in Greenville, SC) in 1910, less than a year after the CGA was organized in Charleston. The championship was played at the Dunes Club for the