Myrtle Beach Golf News & Updates

The PGA TOUR and Visit Myrtle Beach Tuesday welcomed ONEflight International as co-title sponsor of the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic, which returns to South Carolina’s Grand Strand May 8-11, 2025, at The Dunes Golf & Beach Club.

With a team of 40 at their US office in Charleston S.C., and 200 staff across three global offices, Golfbreaks by PGA TOUR has taken a lofty position among the world’s leading golf packagers, with over 25 years in the industry and 230,000 golfers booked on trips each year. And when it comes time to plan, price and book your next Myrtle Beach golf getaway, Golfbreaks offers several compelling stay-and-play options.

Play Golf Myrtle Beach’s Patrick O’Brien holed a 25-yard pitch on his final hole for a birdie and one-shot victory Monday at Thistle Golf Club, in the 18-hole qualifier for the highly anticipated second edition of “The Q at Myrtle Beach.” The victory moved O’Brien one step closer to earning a coveted shot to compete in a PGA TOUR event.

Here’s a great tip for amateur golfers who have their issues in the sand trap. Let Scott Tanguay from the Coastal Golf Academy in Myrtle Beach, S.C. show you the proper technique for hitting out of the bunker.

One of the Grand Strand’s premier designs completed a major facelift in 2023, as Grande Dunes Resort Course now features TifEagle ultradwarf bermudagrass greens that have reclaimed 40,000 square feet of putting surface, reconfigured bunkering, and fairways that have expanded by eight acres. Join us for a tour of this high-demand property as we present several of the more recent aerials we’ve captured at the Roger Rulewich design.

If you visit and film at enough golf courses, you steadily build up lists of favorites. And in the loving spirit of Valentine’s Day, Play Golf Myrtle Beach’s Jim Maggio pulled together his short list of top aerials of the 14th holes of area courses he’s visited in recent months – right here in “The Golf Capital of the World!”

What makes your heart sing this Valentine’s Day? Take care of those you love on this special occasion – and treat them to a round of golf together along the Myrtle Beach golf scene! Our friends on Instagram and Facebook provide inspiring moments each and every week; check out what they’ve been up to!

Bradley Vaughan, sales and marketing manager for the Legend Group of five golf courses in the Myrtle Beach area (Heritage Club, the Parkland/Heathland/Moorland courses at Legends Resort, and Oyster Bay), discusses the cart path renovations work recently completed at Oyster Bay that concluded this project conducted across all Legends Group designs.

Play Golf Myrtle Beach has teamed up with Aaron Chewning, the co-founder of St. Andre Golf, to launch a fresh and innovative video series, “Course Cases with Aaron Chewning.” In Episode 2, Aaron dips back below the state line to check out the Intracoastal Waterway beauty at Glen Dornoch. What special surprises awaited him? Tune in here to find out!

With its dedicated team of Golfmasters possessing a combined hundreds of years of experience in the game and planning golf getaways, Golf Trek is among the Grand Strand’s leading resources for making your Myrtle Beach golf dreams a reality.

When you stay oceanfront, sleeping with sliding glass door cracked open, allowing the sound of the gently pounding surf to waft through the room is one of life’s simple pleasures, as is enjoying a cup coffee on the balcony before leaving for the course. If you want North Myrtle Beach to serve as the base for your next golf trip (and there are a lot of good reasons to do so!), here are four of the area’s best accommodations options.

Myrtle Beach enjoys many points of differentiation in a crowded golf travel space, one of which is the people booking your trip are almost always local residents. They have their finger on the pulse of the golf scene and the ability to book any course along the Grand Strand. Working with a good golf packager can be the difference between a good trip and a great one, and here is a look at a trio of companies with ties to some of the area’s most recognizable brands.

Join us for a dynamic video and hole-by-hole photo tour of one of the North Strand’s most popular layouts: the Dan Maples-designed Sandpiper Bay Golf & Country Club in Sunset Beach, North Carolina.

Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Sunday. You know what that means, right? Six more weeks of great golf weather as we head into spring golf season in “The Golf Capital of the World!” Thank you for sharing the excitement with your Myrtle Beach golf posts on Facebook and Instagram – your love of the game reminds the world why there’s no better place to tee it up than right here!

This week the Play Golf Myrtle Beach team hit each end of the 60-mile stretch of the Grand Strand, as Jim Maggio visited Pawleys Plantation Monday and took to the skies Wednesday to check out the Maples Course at Sea Trail Resort. With beautiful weather greeting him, Jim found superb playing conditions welcoming visitors to “The Golf Capital of the World!”