Golf Channel analyst Charlie Rymer lingered on the green talking with his playing partners, former all-pro Sterling Sharpe joked with participants, and national spokesman Jim Huber addressed 150 players.
A range of celebrities came to Myrtle Beach, the Golf Capital of the World, to take the fight to prostate cancer, and everyone had a good time in the process.
The towers, visible from US 17 in North Myrtle Beach, rise from the edge of the Atlantic Ocean like an entrance into another world, alerting guests well before they arrive that North Beach Plantation is a different type of resort property.
Continue reading North Beach Plantation Raises The Bar.
Forget everything you have ever been told about how to grip a golf club. That is the advice from Brad Redding, one of Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teachers and the director of instruction at the Grande Dunes Golf Academy, in this edition of Nature Valley's Tips From the Pro.
Continue reading Nature Valley's Tip From the Pros: How to (Properly) Grip a Club.
As a former player, watching Dustin Johnson finish out at the PGA Championship was gut wrenching. He clearly had no idea he was in a bunker. I understand all the arguments surrounding the incident. Many people point out that there are too many bunkers on the course and the fact that the gallery was actually inside the bunker.
Continue reading Charlie's Corner: Heartbreak At PGA Could Benefit DJ .
First it was a pair of golf courses, then a fine-dining restaurant, and now Greg Norman has come back to Myrtle Beach to launch a golf academy.
Continue reading Greg Norman Launches Golf Academy In Myrtle Beach.
Golf Magazine unveiled its biennial ranking of America's best public courses and the best each state has to offer in its September issue, and the Myrtle Beach area was, again, well represented.
Continue reading Golf Magazine Ranks 3 Myrtle Beach Golf Courses Among Top 100.
In this installment of Nature Valley's Tips from the Pro, Brad Redding, the director of instruction at Grande Dunes Golf Academy , walks you through four essentials of putting. Redding's essentials are easy to understand and implement and will improve your putting.
Continue reading Nature Valley's Tips From the Pro: Redding's Putting Essentials.
Sushi comes with enough options to satisfy most any palette, and with choice has come popularity. The Japanese dish is available throughout the Grand Strand, but we are here to help you narrow the list. If you are looking for sushi, here are five restaurants that will please.
Continue reading Local Knowledge: Top 5 Sushi Restaurants.
When Sports Illustrated Golf Group signed on as the title sponsor of the World Amateur Handicap Championship, it brought the name recognition of golf's most influential media conglomerate - Sports Illustrated, Golf Magazine and Golf.com - to the event.
Continue reading SI Golf Group Announces Editorial Plans For The World Am.
The 3rd annual Know Your Score Links & Laughs Golf Tournament and Gala is scheduled for August 28 at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Long Bay Club in North Myrtle Beach. Proceeds from the event will benefit ZERO - The Project to End Prostate Cancer. This year, the event will also include a comedy night and live auction at Kingston Plantation. Those interested in purchasing team or individual golf tickets, sponsorships or tickets to the comedy show and gala should visit KnowYourScoreMB.com.
The summer of 2010 is one that won't soon be forgotten at Sandpiper Bay Golf & Country Club. The Sunset Beach, N.C., course just captured one of the area's most prestigious honors, winning the Myrtle Beach Area Golf Course Owner's Association Course of the Year Award.
Continue reading Sandpiper Bay Named Golf Course of the Year.
So you want to be crowned the King of Myrtle Beach? If you are hanging with the VB Golf Crew, it's going to require a superlative effort, on and off the course.
Continue reading Golf Group of the Week: Who is the King of Myrtle Beach?.
I never, not in my wildest dreams, thought I would be putting makeup on to earn a living at the age of 42. Well, for this past year and a half that's exactly what I've been doing.
Continue reading Charlie's Corner: A Day in the Life - Makeup, Sweat and Stress.
During a ceremony at Martin's PGA Tour Superstore in North Myrtle Beach earlier today, Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday's Know Your Score campaign donated $21,477 to benefit the national prostate cancer organization, ZERO - The Project to End Prostate Cancer. This spring the campaign raised the money with "Closest to the Pin" contests at more than 25 Myrtle Beach area golf courses.
Continue reading Know Your Score Campaign Donates $21,477 To Fight Prostate Cancer.
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Golfweek magazine's team of raters fan out across the nation each year, playing America's best golf courses and filing ratings reports. Out of those reports spring the magazine's rankings of the country's top 100 classic and modern courses, in addition to a breakdown of the best layouts in each state.
Continue reading Golfweek Ranks Myrtle Beach Courses Among The Elite.
Reading greens is among golf's trickiest tasks, but Classic Swing Golf School's Ted Frick shows you how to properly survey a putt in this installment of Nature Valley's Tips From the Pro. Whether you are having trouble determining speed, break or where to aim, Frick has advice that will shave strokes off your score.
Continue reading Nature Valley's Tips From The Pro: How To Read Greens.
We've provided you our list of Myrtle Beach's best steakhouses and Italian restaurants, but we want to know what you think. Vote on the area's best restaurants and find out where your fellow golfers like to eat when they are in town!
Continue reading Vote On Myrtle Beach's Best Steak House And Italian Restaurant.
Sure more than 100 Myrtle Beach golf courses provide ample entertainment, but the fun along the Grand Strand doesn't end with the final putt. The Myrtle Beach area is chocked full of good times and here are five of the best off course activities to enjoy throughout the remainder of July.
Continue reading After Your Round: What To Do In Myrtle Beach In July.
On Saturday, July 10, Myrtle Beach National will host the 2nd annual Chris Wilcox Charity Golf Outing. The shotgun scramble tournament will begin at 10:00 a.m. on MBN's South Creek Course. The charity golf event is an effort to raise money to find a cure for Lupus, a debilitating disease that hampers and attacks the immune system.
Continue reading NBA Player Chris Wilcox Hosts Charity Golf Tournament In Myrtle Beach.
Millions of people make a summer pilgrimage to Myrtle Beach, most of them to enjoy sun, sand and a taste of life on the coast. While area beaches are teeming with people, Myrtle Beach golf courses often use the "down time" for improvement projects, and this summer is no different.
Continue reading Two Myrtle Beach Golf Courses Install New Greens.
