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As Family Golf Week in Myrtle Beach prepares to kick off Thursday with first-round action, we go inside the numbers and features of an event that includes far more than the world’s largest father/son competition.

PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com’s Charlie Rymer recently stopped by Glen Dornoch Waterway Golf Links in Little River, S.C., and got a playing tour from Head Golf Professional Ben Acre of its famous par-3 17th Hole, situated scenically along the Intracoastal Waterway.

It speaks volumes to reliability and quality of experience when a Grammy Award-winning recording artist makes your location the centerpiece of its charitable efforts for nearly two decades. And for all the big-name celebrities who’ve been a part of the Hootie & the Blowfish Monday After the Masters Celebrity Pro-Am over the years and done so out of a sense of commitment to the band and their cause, they also come back year after with a heightened sense of anticipation for teeing it up at the area’s premier Pete Dye design.

TPC Myrtle Beach, one of the Grand Strand’s most lauded layouts, has been named the 2019 Myrtle Beach Area Golf Course Owners Association Course of the Year.

PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com’s Charlie Rymer checks in from Lake Tahoe as he wraps up coverage of the American Century Championship. Charlie weighs in on Tony Romo’s impressive golf success, and offers some thoughts on who to watch at this week’s British Open, which returns to Ireland for the first time in 68 years.

This year, the PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur is following three golfers as they pair up with top golf instructors from across the country to improve their game leading up to the event. Gene Chiarella, from Myrtle Beach, S.C., is an 11-year veteran of the World Am and is training with Allen Terrell, swing coach for Dustin Johnson and the director of coaching at the Dustin Johnson Golf School, to improve his golf game. Watch as we follow Gene through his process of preparing for the Myrtle Beach World Am!

More than 120 players from 14 states teed it up today at Rivers Edge Golf Club to kick off the 2019 Calabash Cup, a two-person, 54-hole competition held at three North Strand designs this weekend.

Derek Watson, PGA Professional at Pawleys Plantation Golf & Country Club, fired a tournament-low 65 Thursday – including three consecutive birdies on the finishing holes at Grande Dunes Resort Course – to rally for the win at the 68^th PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com South Carolina Open.

With the wide variety of leisure and entertainment options the Grand Strand offers, Charlie Rymer wants to make sure that the “Beach” portion of Myrtle Beach gets the attention it truly deserves. Join him in seeing what the area’s scenic shores have to offer!

Where is it, and where does it need to be? Our all-star panel takes on this topic in a lively discussion that includes Golf Channel/Sirius XM’s Michael Breed, renowned swing guru Hank Haney, Golfweek’s Geoff Shackelford, Golf Channel/PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com’s Charlie Rymer, pro golfer/social media personality Paige Spiranac and Golf Tourism Solutions’ Bill Golden.

PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com’s Charlie Rymer offers a glimpse of the many reasons why he’s made Myrtle Beach his new home. Upcoming episodes of Rymer’s Reasons will offer further insight from Charlie on each of the golf, travel, dining and entertainment options he’s singled out. Stay tuned!

This week, Charlie checks in from a popular Grand Strand seafood shop to offer his take on the PGA TOUR’s newest competitors making a big splash, John Rahm’s victory in Ireland and what it means for the British Open, and more.

In conjunction with its current, 44-city Group Therapy Tour with Barenaked Ladies, Grammy Award-winning recording artist Hootie & the Blowfish has released a series of video ads to promote “The Golf Capital of the World” as part of its tour partnership with Play Golf Myrtle Beach.

Golf Digest has released its latest compilation of “The Best Golf Courses in South Carolina,” and two Myrtle Beach-area designs have once more assumed a familiar place on this prestigious list. With the publication’s announcement of its 2019-2020 honorees, The Dunes Golf & Beach Club (No. 16) and Caledonia Golf & Fish Club (No. 22) return to the list as two of only five public access courses statewide to be included.

Join us on a majestic sightseeing tour of one of the Grand Strand’s north end cornerstone tracks: the Gene Hamm-designed Eagle Nest Golf Club in Little River, S.C.