Myrtle Beach Golf News & Updates

Waterway Hills Golf Club is a 4-star facility, according to Golf Digest, with 27 holes to tempt players on a Myrtle Beach golf trip. It’s a Robert Trent Jones design and one of just seven area courses that play along the Intracoastal Waterway. But that information is easy to come by.  We’ve got five nuggets about Waterway Hills you likely don’t know, particularly if you’ve not played the course.

1. High Point: The trip to the Waterway Hills clubhouse is the most

The dean of golf course architects, Robert Trent Jones, designed 27 holes at Waterway Hills Golf Club, so there is ample quality at the Myrtle Beach golf course. The challenge for head pro Dick LeSieur was naming the three best holes, one from each of the facility’s nine-hole layouts.

The veteran pro agonized over a couple choices, but he gave us his list of Waterway Hills Golf Club’s best.

Oaks 9, No. 3, 422-yard, par 4 – The longest par 4 at Waterway Hills, the third

In our newest installment of Nature Valley’s Tips From The Pro, Brad Redding, the director of instruction at Grande Dunes Golf Academy, helps you understand (and correct) an aspect of the game that perplexes most of us: the swing plane.

The hole-in-one is one of the game’s greatest feats, particularly for amateurs. The odds of recording the elusive ace vary according to who is doing the estimating, but the best guess (according to insurers and they should know) is about 1 in 3,125.

In Myrtle Beach, 1 in 3,125 occurs a lot more frequently than it does in other places. A million golfers flock to the area and while all of them leave with memories of the Golf Capital of the World, some depart having made the shot of a

As we head into the winter months, Myrtle Beach still enjoys good golf weather and oysters, a perennial favorite, are in-season. The Grand Strand is home to an abundance of local oyster beds, but where should you go for everyone’s favorite mollusk?

We have recommendations for those of you in search of the area’s best raw bars.

1. Rockefellers – A local’s favorite in North Myrtle Beach, Rockefellers isn’t much to look at from the outside but the food is

River Oaks golf course has undergone a more dramatic change in the last year than any golf course in Myrtle Beach and possibly the region. Signature Golf Group took the reins of the 27-hole facility and course conditions, value and customer service have become the top priorities.

If you haven’t seen the “new” River Oaks, which had its grand reopening on October 21, here are five things about the facility and the recently completed renovation you need to

River Oaks golf course, located in the heart of Myrtle Beach, celebrated its grand re-opening last month and the facility bears little resemblance to the layout golfers played in recent years. The course is much more open, new bunkers have been installed and, in some places, there is additional movement in the fairways.
 

With the changes in mind, we asked Signature Golf Group’s Scott Taylor, who is overseeing the course, to tell us the best hole on each of River Oaks’

Welcome to Charlie’s Corner, the blog home for Golf Channel analyst Charlie Rymer. A lifelong Myrtle Beach golfer, Rymer, with his characteristic wit and unique perspective, will be weighing in on all things for Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday.I’m playing a golf tournament next week.  It’s a four-day event, and I have to keep my own score.  No scramble.  No best ball.  No partner of any kind.  This will be the first time in two years that I’ve done

The Myrtle Beach golf scene is home to many of the game’s most revered architects, past and present. Robert Trent Jones, Pete Dye, Jack Nicholas, Tom Fazio and Arnold Palmer are just a few of the big names that have left their mark on the area.

But an architect of less acclaim has, arguably, the most impressive collection of Myrtle Beach golf courses to his credit. Flying under the national radar, Tim Cate has worked almost exclusively in the Myrtle Beach golf market and his work,

Standing on the second tee at the Dye Course at Barefoot Resort, the challenge and splendor of a Pete Dye golf course emerges in full. There is a carry over wetlands off the tee and a waste bunker runs along the right side of a hole that doglegs the same way.

On the other side of the fairway, large mounds and bunkers await, hazards that seem to be within reach of a driver. The landing area appears to be perilously small.

Reality couldn’t be further from the truth.

The bunkers in the distance are more than 250 yards from the white tees (assuming you can hit the ball where you are aiming), and there is ample room to find the fairway.

The second hole is a primer for golfers enjoying an education in Pete Dye101. The octogenarian architect is one of golf’s all-time greats and visual illusions are one of the reasons why.

The railroad ties, mounding and yawning waste bunkers that Dye is known for are all present at Barefoot Resort. Dye’s work at Barefoot added another considerable entry onto a resume that earned him induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2008.

Dye’s namesake design is the home of one of the nation’s most prominent charity events – the Hootie & The Blowfish Monday After the Masters Celebrity Pro-Am – and it’s one of America’s 100 Greatest Public Courses, according to Golf Digest.

In addition to his reputation…

Welcome to Charlie's Corner, the blog home for Golf Channel analyst Charlie Rymer. A lifelong Myrtle Beach golfer, Rymer, with his characteristic wit and unique perspective, will be weighing in on all things golf for Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday.

Even though the Majors, Ryder Cup, and Fedex Cup are behind us, there is still plenty of interesting golf being played. And it's golf that I am very familiar with.

Players are jockeying for the final spots for the 2011 PGA Tour season. On

The Dye Course at Barefoot Resort has accumulated numerous accolades in its first decade, earning a reputation as one of best golf courses in Myrtle Beach. Whether you play the course every year or want to book it on your next trip, here are five things about the Dye Course that will be of interest.

1. Hootie’s Home: The Dye Course is home to one of the nation’s best charity events – the Hootie & The Blowfish Monday After The Masters Celebrity Pro-Am. The course has

Pot bunkers, railroad ties and yawning waste bunkers are hallmarks of legendary golf course architect Pete Dye. They are also staples of the highly regarded Dye Course at Barefoot Resort, one of seven Myrtle Beach golf courses ranked among America’s 100 greatest public layouts.

What qualifies as the best at the Dye Course may depend on your thirst for a challenge, but head pro Jeff Diehl shared the layout’s three best holes from his perspective:
 

No. 6, 195-yard, par

Golf courses will often open with an easy hole, allowing players time to find their rhythm. At Meadowlands Golf Club, architect Willard Byrd opted to immediately challenge players, and the results were impressive.

When asked about the best holes at Meadowlands, head pro Mac Hood named the first three. The average golfer  might have selected the seventh, 15th or 17th, holes that provide a chance to pick up a stroke, but Hood likes a challenge. As a result, here are a look at the head

The quest to earn the title of golf’s fifth major seems to be an eternal one, but there is no more debate in air traffic control towers scattered throughout America. Golf’s fifth major is the Schmelli Open, at least to the guys who annually participate. Now in its 10th year, the Schmelli just made its first trek to Myrtle Beach and 19 guys played 10 rounds of golf over five days at Barefoot Resort in hopes of winning money and bragging rights. The Schmelli is the brainchild of Jim