Myrtle Beach Golf News & Updates

Classic Swing Golf School’s Ted Frick provides a lesson on how to improve your play around the green with the bump-and-run shot.

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As spring dawns, various top 100 course rankings hit newsstands and Golfweek, like its peers, has recognized several Myrtle Beach golf courses as being among the best.

In its annual Golfweek’s Best issue, the weekly magazine honored seven Myrtle Beach area courses in its Best in State rankings, led by Caledonia Golf & Fish Club which was, again, ranked among America’s Top 100 modern courses.

A fixture in the rankings, Caledonia was No. 100 on this year’s list

The West Course at Pearl Golf Links, completed in 1989, has a links-style feel complemented by a series of golf holes that play along the Calabash River. The West Course at Pearl Golf Links earned 4.5 stars in Golf Digest’s prestigious “Best Places to Play” guide and has a reputation for playability, making it popular amongst all level of Myrtle Beach golfers. This also makes it a very popular addition to golf packages when choosing which golf courses to play. With that

There are only a handful of architects that can compete with the list of Clyde Johnston golf courses in Myrtle Beach. The acclaimed architect has designed two of the last four Myrtle Beach Area Golf Course Owners Association Courses of the Year (Wachesaw Plantation East and Shaftesbury Glen) and yet he flies under the radar with the average player.

Johnston’s name doesn’t benefit from the wattage that golf greats like Nicklaus, Palmer and Norman enjoy, but his work in the area

The approach shot on the fourth hole of the Cypress nine at Arrowhead Country Club offers everything players want in a destination golf course. There is beauty in the Intracoastal Waterway flowing in the background, challenge in carrying the ball over a lake fronting the green, and opportunity to score on a 355-yard, par 4.

It’s the type of hole golfers remember on a course that embodies much of what helped Myrtle Beach grow into the game’s most popular destination. Arrowhead Country Club doesn’t receive the acclaim of some of the area’s high profile layouts, but players know what awaits them upon arrival: 27 holes, outstanding conditions, a playable design, and good value.
 

The Grand Strand’s only Raymond Floyd design, Arrowhead Country Club is home to the Cypress, Lakes and Waterway nines. While some 27-hole facilities prefer to tout the differences in their  nine-hole layouts, at Arrowhead there are far more similarities amongst the tracks and that’s not an accident.

If there is a significant point of differentiation between the nines it’s the…

Classic Swing Golf School’s Ted Frick provides a tip on club face control and pivot, two things golfers tend to struggle with after a winter hiatus from the game.

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Arrowhead Country Club, home of three nine-hole layouts, is the type of facility that makes Myrtle Beach golf’s greatest destination. The 4.5-star course offers a central location, great value and a memorable round. With that in mind, here are five things you will want to know before teeing it up at Arrowhead Country Club. 1. Conditions are outstanding: Having 27 holes allows Arrowhead to make sure golfers experience the course in prime condition. Take aerification for example.

Arrowhead Country Club is home to 27 holes, several of them playing along the Intracoastal Waterway, and it’s Myrtle Beach’s only Raymond Floyd design. The facility, which prides itself on providing outstanding conditions and value, is memorable from an aesthetic and architectural standpoint.

We asked long-time head pro Eddie Dennis to name the best hole on each of Arrowhead’s three nine-hole courses – Cypress, Lakes and Waterway – and he was happy to comply. Here is the best Arrowhead Country Club has to offer:

The Marina Inn at Grande Dunes has long been acknowledged as one of Myrtle Beach’s best, now Trip Advisor has ranked it among America’s premier hotel properties.

The Marina Inn at Grande Dunes in Myrtle Beach, S.C., has been named one of the “Top 25 Hotels in the United States” in TripAdvisor's 2011 Travelers' Choice Hotel Awards. It was ranked #18 and is the only Myrtle Beach hotel to receive this honor.

The AAA four-diamond property — located on

The Dunes Golf & Beach Club in Myrtle Beach has been listed by Golfweek among their 2011 “Best Classic Courses” in the United States and is ranked at No. 105. The historic Robert Trent Jones-designed course has also been ranked by the magazine as the fifth best in the state of South Carolina for its “Best Courses You Can Play” list. The 2011 rankings appear in the March 11 issue of the magazine.

“When you see the list of outstanding classic golf courses in

There has been much discussion in recent months about the need to grow the game of golf. While the game’s powerbrokers sit on committees and pontificate, one long-time Myrtle Beach golf group already has a plan that insures the health of their trip: invite someone new to play.

The men of the 33rd Parallel Golf Extravaganza have been making an annual winter golf trip to Myrtle Beach for nine years – the last several over Super Bowl weekend. The group has 20 to 25 guys that

The First Tee of Myrtle Beach accepted a donation on Friday in the amount of $10,000 from the Hootie Foundation, the non-profit organization created in 2000 in conjunction with the annual Hootie & The Blowfish Monday After The Masters Celebrity Pro-Am Golf Tournament. The check presentation was made by band member Dean Felber to The First Tee of Myrtle Beach via the South Carolina Junior Golf Association during a morning ceremony at Barefoot Resort & Golf’s Dye Club.

The

The popular ESPN Radio show “Mike & Mike in the Morning,” featuring hosts Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, will broadcast from the 17th annual Hootie & The Blowfish Monday After The Masters Celebrity Pro-Am at Barefoot Resort’s Dye Club on April 11. The four-hour radio show will also be simulcast live on ESPN2 from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. The announcement was made today by Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday.

The live Mike & Mike broadcast will be the culmination of a first

Surf Club golf course is one of Myrtle Beach’s most revered courses, particularly by those who know the area golf scene well. Built in 1959, Surf Club grew into a private club but has opened up a limited number of tee times for Myrtle Beach public play in 2011.

Given that the course hasn’t been available for public play in recent years, Surf Club is an unknown quantity to many Myrtle Beach golfers, but there is much to like. Here are five things you need to know about Surf

The Surf Club, which seems to get better with age, recently opened a limited number of tee times for public play, delighting Myrtle Beach golfers who relish an outstanding, traditional design.

If your next golf trip takes you to the classic North Myrtle Beach track, here are three holes, according to head pro Bill Campbell, that you will remember.

No. 3, 185-yard, par 3: Surf Club’s most demanding par 3 is an architectural gem, challenging high and low handicappers alike. Water comes into play on the right side and a pair of traps on each side of the green can make for demanding pin positions, but the front of the green is open, allowing players to run the ball up.
 

That being said, the third hole, with its deep green, rewards high-quality shots.

“(The third hole) is an opportunity, I don’t care what level you play to,” Campbell said. “It’s more advantageous for someone that can hit a high iron shot and stop the ball.”

No. 10, 564-yard, par 5: The 10th hole is a dogleg left that brings water into play on the first two shots for the average player, but it’s a challenge everyone remembers. A lake runs along the left side of the fairway before dissecting it approximately 275 yards from the tips.

The 10th is much easier for low handicappers, who typically have the length and confidence to cutoff the dogleg and fly the lake off the tee, setting up a possible eagle.

Regardless of your skill level, No. 10 is generally regarded as one of the best holes in Myrtle Beach

No. 18, 206-yard, par 3: Surf Club closes with a memorable par 3, which is a bit unusual for a course of its stature, but in no way is it anti-climatic. The course’s longest par 3, No. 18 typically plays into the wind coming from the Atlantic Ocean just two blocks away, and there is a formidable lake that must be carried.

Once players reach the multi-tiered green, which is in the shadow of a stately clubhouse, the fun is just beginning.

“You think getting over the lake is the issue and you get to the green and find out it was the issue all along,” Campbell said.

The 18th hole doesn’t allow players to relent in the closing moments of a round and it sends players home with a vivid memory.

What are your favorite holes at the Surf Club?