Myrtle Beach Golf News & Updates

Whispering Pines Golf Course, Myrtle Beach’s municipal layout, has long been a local’s favorite.  

Whispering Pines Golf Course, the area’s fourth oldest, has been serving players in the heart of Myrtle Beach since 1962. The layout has undergone significant renovations in recent years, enhancing its playability and conditions.

With the course’s refurbishment nearly complete, we took a trip to the venerable layout and ask long time head pro Alan Chasteen to name the three best holes at Whispering Pines. Here were his answers:

No. 2, 158-yard, Par 3: The course’s

Golf Digest has unveiled its biennial ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses, and several Myrtle Beach golf courses again made the cut.

The Dunes Club led a trio of Grand Strand golf courses on the prestigious list at No. 46, followed by No. 88 Grande Dunes and No. 94 Tidewater.

A Robert Trent Jones design, Dunes Club is the area’s most famed layout. The course plays within view of the Atlantic Ocean and enjoys a classic design. Dunes Club has hosted the U.S.

Charlotte Country Day’s Al Dickens thought he had lost his chance for an individual title at the Palmetto High School Golf Championship with a bogey, double bogey finish during the final round at Tiger’s Eye golf course. Moments after walking off the 18th green, Dickens learned that his 36-hole total of 144 was good enough to earn a sudden death playoff against good friend Charles Spry of Forsyth Country Day School.

Dickens didn’t squander his second

PGA Tour star Dustin Johnson has lived the Myrtle Beach golf experience and loved it. Now he is going to tell the world about the virtues of a Grand Strand golf trip. Representatives from Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday hosted a press conference at TPC of Myrtle Beach to announce that Johnson has been named the official spokesperson for the golf marketing cooperative for the remainder of 2011.As part of the agreement, Johnson will appear in various marketing materials, including print and radio

The Myrtle Beach golf community has grown up around Arcadian Shores, adding more than 70 layouts since the course opened in 1974.

While the game and its architecture have evolved, placing a premium on course length to combat ball and equipment technology, Arcadian Shores has remained a highly regarded layout because of the timeless quality of its design.

Space-age drivers and balls that scream off club faces can’t overtake the virtues of good, traditionally designed golf courses

Arcadian Shores opened in 1974 to great acclaim and remains, in the eyes of many knowledgeable observers, one of the best designs along the Grand Strand. 

The top North Myrtle Beach golf courses enjoy a prime location and some of the area’s best layouts.

With that in mind here a look at the top North Myrtle Beach golf courses, which include four layouts (Dye, Fazio, Love and Tidewater) that have been ranked among America’s Top 100 by either Golf Digest or Golf Magazine:

Azalea Sands: With no homes, condos or backyards on the course, Azalea Sands prides itself on a player-friendly reputation and pace of play. The course has

Despite having big-name architects and an outstanding layout, Prestwick Country Club has a relatively low profile, but that’s only a problem for golfers that have yet to discover the Pete and P.B. Dye design. 

As with any Dye design, in this case the work of Pete and P.B., beauty is in the eye of the beholder. At Prestwick Country Club, the Dye brothers crafted an excellent, if underrated, course.

Prestwick Country Club enjoys the hallmarks of every Dye course, but we asked head pro Jay Smith, who loves a good challenge,  to sort through the railroad ties, pot bunkers and undulating fairways to tell us the course’s three best holes. 

Here were Smith’s best:
 

No.

Myrtle Beach is where America goes to golf, but with instructors like Brad Redding, it could just as easily be known as where America learns to play golf.

Golf Magazine just released its biennial ranking of America’s Top 100 Teachers and Redding, the owner and director of instruction at Grande Dunes Golf Academy, was again a member of the prestigious list. He has been ranked among America’s Top 100 Teachers since 2001.

Redding’s Grande Dunes Golf Academy students

Everyone’s favorite golf tournament is here and it’s been 25 years since Jack Nicklaus’ unforgettable charge to his record sixth green jacket. So what better time to look at the Jack Nicklaus golf courses in Myrtle Beach?

The Golden Bear isn’t a prolific as fellow Masters champion Arnold Palmer when it comes to Myrtle Beach golf course designs, but he has a pair of popular layouts to his credit.
 

Long Bay Club – If a round of golf is analogous to a

In the mid-1980s Myrtle Beach was still an emerging golf destination and the idea of the South Strand had yet to take hold. When River Club opened in 1985, it was the second golf course in Pawleys Island but it immediately embodied the characteristics now associated with the area. The soaring live oak trees draped in Spanish moss, lowcountry beauty and abundance of charm brought River Club to the forefront of the Myrtle Beach golf market. Within three years, three more courses opened in

The beauty of River Club lies in its consistent excellence. Hole after hole the South Strand layout provides players with a different and enjoyable challenge. We assigned head pro Christa Bodensteiner the difficult task of giving us River Club’s three best holes and after careful thought, she delivered. No. 9, 413-yard, par 4: A long dogleg right, No. 9 doesn’t leave a lot of room for error but it decides a lot of nine-hole matches. Off the tee there is  a bunker on