Courses and Travel

Myrtle Beach’s River Club – Entertaining to a Tee!

Bob Fagan

The gorgeous 496-yard 6th hole at the River Club offers an enticing chance to get home in two shots.  ... Read more »

Litchfield Country Club – Vintage Player-Friendly Golf Still Thrives

Bob Fagan

Willard Byrd fashioned many golf course designs in the Southeastern United States. Typically, these golf courses were not flashy, but... Read more »

Cranwell Is New England Classic

Tom Harack

Part of a series of ad hoc recommendations for autumn golf options. Fall seems by consensus to be everyone’s favorite... Read more »

King’s North Fit for Royalty

Jeff Wallach

The Golf Road Warriors have completed their final sortie and withdrawn from the golf battlefields of Myrtle Beach.  But we... Read more »

A “Choice” Dilemma at the Myrtlewood Golf Club

Bob Fagan

 The 18th on the Palmetto Course at Myrtlewood is considered one of the best finishing holes in the region!  ... Read more »

A Dozen Reasons to Visit Myrtle Beach for Golf

Bob Fagan

 The venerable old Ocean Forest Country Club (now Pine Lakes) started it all back in 1927 and now sits in... Read more »

The Long Bay Club – A Tough Test in Myrtle Beach!

Bob Fagan

The picturesque par-four 10th is actually the shortest par-four at Long Bay and somewhat of a “breather” on a very... Read more »

Myrtle, I Miss You: A Recap

James A. Frank

Coming home is always good. But it was very difficult to put Myrtle Beach in my rear-view mirror. The GRWs... Read more »

How Golf Came To Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Bob Fagan

The Ocean Forest Hotel pictured in 1961. Did you know that in 1925 Myrtle Beach only had 200 year-round residents... Read more »

King’s North at Myrtle Beach National – Better The Second Time

Bob Fagan

All four of the par-threes at King’s North play over water though the longest is only 190 yards from the... Read more »

Day Five: The Granddaddy Of Them All

James A. Frank

Golfers contemplating a trip to Myrtle Beach today have a lot to consider. More than 100 courses; countless hotels, condos,... Read more »

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

Jeff Wallach

Here’s the five o’ clock view from the Golf Road Warriors fifth-floor five-bedroom suite at North Beach Plantation.  Girls are... Read more »

Pine Lakes: Granddaddy of Myrtle Beach

Jeff Wallach

Today the Golf Road Warriors moved off Bermuda grass and onto beloved paspalum– a newer grass that can be irrigated... Read more »

Pine Lakes Country Club, Myrtle Beach – Where Class Is Never Out of Style

Bob Fagan

A pond, waste-bunker, and trees set the tone to the short dogleg-right, par-four 15th at Pine Lakes.   I first... Read more »

To the Golfing Glory That is Greece

Tom Bedell

There is a statue in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens dated to about 510-500 B.C. At its base is... Read more »