Myrtle Beach Golf News

There are courses in Myrtle Beach golf that get all the headlines, and then there are courses that quietly earn the respect of everyone who actually knows the market. Arcadian Shores Golf Club falls firmly in the second category. It’s been around since 1974, it sits right in the heart of the Grand Strand, and it carries a backstory that most golfers — even regular Myrtle Beach visitors — don’t fully know. Here’s what’s worth knowing before you tee it up.

It has memorable holes along its back nine including the island green 14^th and dramatic par-5 finisher. But when it comes to the most difficult holes at River Club, Head Golf Professional Tim Bachand offers his thoughts on three others that give the Tom Jackson signature design a challenge with plenty of teeth for the next time you tee it up there.

His father put his mark on the Myrtle Beach golf scene decades earlier. Taking the chance to branch out on his own, “The Open Doctor” chose the Grand Strand as the canvas for his first solo creation. The result was Arcadian Shores Golf Club, now a longstanding favorite of visiting golfers. Join us on a dynamic video tour of Rees Jones’ outstanding design.

Our latest stop in The Golf Capital of the World® brings us back to Myrtle Beach, where the Pete and P.B. Dye collaborative design at Prestwick Country Club takes its turn in the “show & tell” lens. Play Golf Myrtle Beach’s David Williams made an early-morning stop there earlier this week and captured an assortment of images, from both ground and sky.

He’s had different takes on different traits of his resort’s Greg Norman and Davis Love III designs. On this occasion James Gillespie, PGA Head Golf Professional at Barefoot Resort & Golf, is back to offer his thoughts on the three most challenging holes at its Tom Fazio signature layout.

The Grand Strand never runs out of holes that make you question every life decision that led you to the tee box. Myrtle Beach golf is defined by water — marshes, rivers, lakes, tidal creeks, the Intracoastal Waterway — and the designers who’ve worked here have never been shy about putting it directly in your path. Here’s a look at a sampling of holes where the water isn’t background scenery. It’s the main character.

Set amid a stunning Lowcountry landscape, Willbrook Plantation Golf Club has no shortage of scenic holes to cite for this particular category. So with so many from which to choose, we turned to Willbrook’s longtime general manager and head golf professional, Kevin McGuire, to offer his take on the three that stand out the most.

The team at Coastal Golfaway combines an unparalleled depth of Grand Strand-area golf knowledge and experience with a family-driven approach that makes you feel right at home as they help you create the ultimate Myrtle Beach golf getaway.

Be sure to join the early registration list for your chance to join two of the top figures in YouTube golf in their return to “The Golf Capital of the World®!”

The 3^rd Annual Bryan Bros Shootout weekend hosted by Play Golf Myrtle Beach and featuring star content creators George and Wesley Bryan is set for Saturday, Sept. 26, at The Dye Course at Barefoot Resort & Golf.

In the first of a four-part series on short game improvement, Ted Frick of the Classic Swing Golf School at Legends Golf Resort in Myrtle Beach, S.C. is here to show you an inexpensive but highly effective putting drill you can practice that will improve your game on the greens!

Tucked just off Highway 9 in Longs, South Carolina, about 20 minutes from the beach, sits a course that a lot of people drive right past without realizing what they’re missing. Aberdeen Country Club has a story worth knowing, and more than a few facts that might surprise you.

From the land down under comes one of the top golf experiences in all Myrtle Beach. The Norman Course at Barefoot Resort & Golf is a personal course design from the famed Shark, Greg Norman.  Join us for a dynamic video and hole-by-hole photo tour of this popular track.

It’s that time of week once again in The Golf Capital of the World® where we get to show the world just how much you love this game! Thanks to you and our friends on Instagram, we continue to see nonstop action and timeless memories being created throughout the Grand Strand. Let’s take a look at what you’ve been up to this past week!

Twelve Myrtle Beach-area designs have once more been named among Golfweek’s “Best Courses You Can Play” in the Carolinas as Caledonia Golf & Fish Club, The Dunes Golf & Beach Club, True Blue Golf Club, and TPC Myrtle Beach earned four of South Carolina’s top 10 selections and Thistle Golf Club returned with high honors in North Carolina.

Our latest stop in The Golf Capital of the World® takes us to North Myrtle Beach, where the Davis Love III signature design at Barefoot Resort & Golf takes its turn in the “show & tell” lens. Play Golf Myrtle Beach’s Jim Maggio made an early-morning stop there last week, and in his travels captured an assortment of images from throughout the course.