Myrtle Beach Golf News

Taking a Myrtle Beach golf trip this fall doesn’t mean you have to be away from your favorite team. Myrtle Beach is filled with sports bars that carry the NFL Sunday Ticket and cater to fans from other cities who brought their football allegiances with them. If you are taking a Myrtle Beach golf trip and are a fan of the Steelers, Giants, Redskins, Browns or Eagles, here are places you can go to find friendly faces this fall. * Pittsburgh Steelers: Fans from the Steel City are all over

Mike Swanson never anticipated comparing schedules with PGA Tour star and Myrtle Beach golf spokesman Dustin Johnson would be part of his to-do list this fall. Then again, he never dreamed he would be the winner of the Golf For a Year in Myrtle Beach sweepstakes, which included a round at TPC Myrtle Beach with Johnson. When Swanson received an email informing him he had won Golf For a Year, it didn’t move to the top of his priority list – who hasn’t received a message

The East Course at the Pearl is the latest Myrtle Beach golf course to add its name to the list of layouts making the switch to MiniVerde Bermuda grass greens. The East Course, a 4-star layout, according to Golf Digest’s prestigious Best Places to Play guide, reopened on Saturday, October 1 and the early results are positive. After closing in August, the old bentgrass greens on the East Course were fumigated and the greens complexes were sprigged with MiniVerde. The grow-in

There are more than 1,000 restaurants along the Grand Strand, and Gulfstream Cafe is almost universally regarded as one of the best.Gulfstream is located beside Marlin Quay Marina, just south of the Garden City Connector, and much like Myrtle Beach, it’s an ideal blend of quality and casual. Specializing in seafood and steak, Gulfstream provides an outstanding dining experience and unforgettable views of Murrells Inlet.Cost: $10-$30 per entreeAtmosphere: Casual. Seating is available

Fall golf season is nearly upon us and the seven Myrtle Beach golf courses that installed new putting greens this summer will be ready to welcome golfers, and keep Myrtle Beach on par with the world’s leading luxury golf resorts. Each of the seven golf courses installed an ultradwarf Bermuda grass that replicates the best qualities of bentgrass while thriving during the warm summer months in Myrtle Beach. The most popular of the new ultradwarf grasses are Champion and MiniVerde and they were

Claude Pardue, owner of the three Mystical Golf courses – Man O’War, The Witch and The Wizard – likes to say all golfers know beauty, and his layouts deliver it in spades, particularly Man O’War. The Dan Maples design features and abundance of scenery and, not coincidentally, fans. The course, with a 107-acre lake as its centerpiece, is one of the Myrtle Beach area’s most recognizable. Before you tee it up at Man O’War, here are five things you need to know:1. H2O

Bobby Perkinson of Alcoa, Tn., shot a gross 74 and a net 70 at TPC Myrtle Beach to defend his title at the Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship. Perkinson is the first player in the 28-year history of the World Am to win the title twice, and he earned it with a strong par on his closing hole the ninth, TPC’s toughest. Perkinson unsheathed a 7-wood in the middle of the ninth fairway and delivered the shot of the tournament when the ball came to a rest 10 feet from the cup.  

The final night of the 28th annual Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship has arrived and the tournament’s 3,000 participants can expect to leave with a smile on their face. Golf Magazine columnist and CBS television personality David Feherty is the event’s headlining entertainer for the second consecutive year. One of golf’s wittiest voices, Feherty will bring his irreverent (and insightful) views on the game and life to the World’s Largest 19th Hole

They’ve called themselves the Myrtle Misfits, the Duffers and names that aren’t fit to print on a family website. Nothing has stuck. The only tag that has stuck to Victor Ferreira, Greg Davis, Dennis Navin and their group is a much more meaningful one: friends. Following a round in the 1991 Golf.com World Amateur Handicap Championship, the trio met at the hotel pool where they were staying and became friends faster than Michael Phelps swims an Olympic race. They come from different

Myrtle Beach golf spokesman Dustin Johnson carded a 6-under 65 to earn a two-stroke victory at the Barclays, the PGA Tour’s first FedEx Cup playoff event. Johnson, who entered the final round one shot off the lead, fired a 29 on the front nine and finished 19-under par, besting second place Matt Kuchar and vaulting to the top of the FedEx Cup standings. The Barclays, played at Plainfield Country Club in Edison, N.J., was shortened to 54 holes by the pending arrival of Hurricane Irene.

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