Myrtle Beach Golf Blog

Beach Blog Restaurant Spotlight: Sun City Café

By Michelle Cantey Walk into the eclectic Sun City Café and you feel at home immediately. Located in Myrtle Beach's original business district, the 1920's-era building features original tin ceilings, local art hung on the turquoise walls and whimsical "knickknacks."...[more...]

Myrtle Beach Segway Offers New Way to Tour the Strand

By Lauren Poster Okay, so you've done the decadent tourist thing. You've partied, you've bashed, you've trashed your hotel room. You've hit Broadway at the Beach; you've even gone to the beach (again). Or maybe you haven't. Still, a Segway...[more...]

Rivers Edge Converting to SeaDwarf Paspalum

Rivers Edge Golf Club in Shallotte, NC, closed June 1st, 2009 for two months to convert the putting surfaces to environmentally friendly SeaDwarf® Seashore Paspalum turfgrass, according to Signature Golf Group, the Myrtle Beach, S.C.-based management company. Dave Downing, CGCS,...[more...]

School's in Session this Summer - On the Course!

Myrtle Beach is making summer school fun. The Golf Capital of the World has partnered with three of the game's best instructors to create special Golf Summer School programs. Improve your game with expert tutelage and state-of-the-art instruction equipment. Your...[more...]

Character Shows True at Military Appreciation Days

By Lenore McKenzie Morris When the flag bearer jumped from the jet, she stopped talking and stepped aside. It was no ordinary flag descending from the skies over the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, but she was no ordinary...[more...]

Crocodile Rocks: Rollicking Fun

By Christina Knauss Take two pianos, two musicians and two club levels full of people having a great time, and what do you get? A night of entertainment unlike any other on the Grand Strand, and it's available only at...[more...]

Fire at Waccamaw Metal Recycling - Photo Gallery

Myrtle Beach Fire Rescue responded this morning to a debris fire at Waccamaw Metal Recycling. No injuries had been reported at the time of the incident. Keith Jacobs was on the scene and got these photos:...[more...]

Champions Golf Academy Changes Name to Hugh Royer Champions Golf Academy

Grand Strand Golf School to Host Hurricane Junior Golf Tour's Myrtle Beach Open, June 13-14 Representatives from the Champions Golf Academy announced this week that the two-year-old golf school will now be known as the Hugh Royer Champions Golf Academy....[more...]

Beach Blog Restaurant Spotlight: High Hammock Maverick Seaside Kitchen

by Michelle Cantey High Hammock recently opened in Pawleys Island, but its parent company is no stranger to South Carolina. High Hammock is part of Maverick Southern Kitchens, a company of five unique restaurants, a kitchen store, culinary center and...[more...]

Bikefest Draws Smaller Crowds, Refocused Effort

By Christina Lee Knauss The Atlantic Beach Bikefest may be heading back to its roots. This year, as the City of Myrtle Beach continued its ongoing effort to rid the city limits of the crowds and noise caused by May's...[more...]

A Doggone Good Night at the Ballpark

by Terry Massey They say every dog has his day, and May 15 was it for over 100 lucky, local canines. That was the Myrtle Beach Pelicans' eighth annual ``Bark at the Park Night'' fund-raiser for the Grand Strand Humane...[more...]

Retired Military Classic Brings More Than 1,000 to Myrtle Beach

More than 1,000 members of the American armed forces took to the Grand Strand links this week, competing in the 26th Annual Retired Military Golf Classic hosted by The Myrtle Beach National Company. Scores were low in this captain's choice...[more...]

Downtown Conway Shines with Rivertown Music and Arts Festival

By Christina Lee Knauss Meck Hartfield stood under a white tent in Conway on May 2 and pounded a piece of iron into a delicate, tapering flower. Hartfield owns Potts Ferry Forge, an old-fashioned blacksmith and iron works in Johnsonville,...[more...]

Freestyle Music Park Cranks Open for 2009

By Lenore McKenzie-Morris Happy parents strolled throughout Freestyle Music Park on Sunday, ecstatic that last year's season passes were renewed by smiling employees without a hassle. The newly re-christened park reopened on Memorial Day weekend under new ownership. Locals who...[more...]

Harley Week 2009 Brings Fewer Riders, More Opinions

By Christina Lee Knauss The Harley Week that almost wasn't took place along the Grand Strand May 8-17, but it was a much different event than previous years. The 69th year of the Harley-Davidson "Cruisin' the Coast" Rally was a...[more...]