Myrtle Beach Golf News

There has never been a better time to book a Myrtle Beach golf trip, and the best place to start is GolfHoliday.com. The Myrtle Beach area’s premier golf resource, GolfHoliday.com offers a comprehensive listing of area golf courses and package providers (with a link out to every website), the latest news, course videos, photo galleries, an area map and much more.

Once you’ve completed your research, a Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday Quick Quote, which allows golfers to receive quotes from package providers, is the thinking man’s way to begin planning a trip.

As curious little boys evolve into men who know everything, they gleam much of their worldly knowledge from their fathers, absorbing behaviors, vocabulary, values, work ethic and a sense of who they will be - like freshly unwrapped sponges. Of course all of that information and understanding doesn’t pass from parent to child through osmosis. As is often the case, father and son will discover a shared passion or common ground ideal for cultivating the closest of bonds.

Whether it’s Little League baseball, Pop Warner football or a Saturday morning soccer league, sports often serve as the vehicle for forming that special friendship. But is there any better way for a father and son to learn about life and each other than by playing a round of golf together? Almost 15 years since one of golf’s most famous fathers, Earl Woods, proclaimed that his prodigal son would do more than any other man in history to change the course of humanity, we live in a world capable of connecting us to our neighbors on the other side of the globe with the click of a button. Yet, we’ve become so distant. Golf gives us the opportunity to bridge that gap.

Since its inception in 2001, Burroughs & Chapin Golf Management has earned the reputation as Myrtle Beach’s leading golf management company, providing operations and marketing services to 10 Grand Strand golf courses which include Arcadian Shores, Farmstead Golf Links, Meadowlands Golf Club, Myrtlewood Golf Club, Pine Lakes Country Club, River Hills Country Club, Tidewater Golf Club, Members Club and Resort Club at Grande Dunes and, as well as two Par 3 courses and five themed mini-golf courses.

On March 14, 2009, Burroughs & Chap-in Golf Management reopened Pine Lakes Country Club after an extensive 20-month, $15 million restoration project to Myrtle Beach’s oldest golf course. Remaining as true to Robert White’s original 1927’s specifi cations as possible, Burroughs & Chapin Golf Management restored the golf course and clubhouse to its former status and early 20th century grandeur as a premier golf resort.

The Dunes Golf & Beach Club was recently honored in the 2010 Golf World Readers’ Choice Awards, which were revealed in the magazine’s Sept. 28 issue.

The Robert Trent Jones design was recognized in the Top 50 Resorts category and is the only Myrtle Beach area course to be honored in this category in the annual ranking. Dunes Club was also honored in the inaugural 2009 Reader’s Choice Awards.

For even the most seasoned golfer, navigating the maze that is Myrtle Beach can be an arduous task. When you’re looking for the best deals, whether it’s a heads up on course conditions or a recommendation on a prime place to stay, it helps to have an insider on your side. The same goes for finding affordable golf attire and equipment along the Grand Strand.

A sister company of Signature Golf Group, one of Myrtle Beach’s premier golf course management operations, The Myrtle Beach Golf Shop is a unique venture that strives to continually search for the top name brand products at the best possible values. 

Century Golf Partners manages a diverse and growing group of premier properties across the country.

The group has a predilection for bringing customers an excellent golf experience. Century Golf which manages its collection of courses under the Arnold Palmer Golf Management brand, now runs the operations of the five Legends courses (Oyster Bay, The Heritage Club and the three courses at Legends Resort.

Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday recently announced that more than $65,000 was raised during the second annual Know Your Score: Fight Prostate Cancer Celebrity Golf Tournament and Gala held Aug. 29, 2009. Since starting the prostate education and research campaign in 2008, the Myrtle Beach golf community has helped raised more than $205,000 for the Know Your Score: Fight Prostate Cancer and ZERO - the Project to End Prostate Cancer campaigns.

The day began with an 18-hole celebrity golf tournament at The Long Bay Club in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. with each participant having the opportunity to play golf with one of the celebrities who traveled to Myrtle Beach to help fight prostate cancer. After golf, participants headed to Kingston Plantation in North Myrtle Beach for the Gala for dinner, entertainment and the opportunity to bid on sports memorabilia during a silent auction. 

Linda Fuller of Richmond, Texas, shot a net 66 to win the World Championship Playoff at the Dunes Golf & Beach Club during the 26th annual PGA Tour Superstore World Amateur Handicap Championship, an event that featured 3,060 people.

The World Championship Playoff consisted of all flight winners and ties, a total of 75 golfers. There was a three-way tie for second place. Treg Hallman, Jill Ford and Thomas Wagner all finished with a net 68.

The day-to-day management duties of Clyde Johnston's Wachesaw Plantation East have been assumed by the Myrtle Beach National Company, a move that give's the Grand Strand's largest course ownership and management group a total of 11 courses under its umbrella.

As a result of the agreement, Myrtle Beach National, which owns nine of the 11 courses it manages, will assume oversight of outside operations, pro shop, food and beverage, maintenance and marketing of Wachesaw East. 

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Author D.J. Gregory, whose inspirational story has been featured in print publications across the country, and the likes of Golf Channel and ESPN, will be a featured guest at the 26th annual PGA Tour Superstore World Amateur Handicap Championship.

Gregory will participate in roundtable discussions and autograph copies of his book, "Walking With Friends - An Inspirational Year on the PGA Tour."