With Irene behind many of us, and little damage to report in South Carolina, the golf season is revving up in Myrtle Beach for a fantastic end to the summer and fall season.  Myrtle Beach and much of the surrounding area was fortunate enough to avoid a direct impact from the storm, and received little overall damage to the more than 100 courses that comprise the Myrtle Beach Golf Courses community.  The weather we did receive, gave many of us a nice respite and glimpse of the cooler weather we will experience this fall and early winter.

The conditions during this time of the year, and well into the fall season, are ideal for the golfer who enjoys the sunshine, but not the scorching heat that is to be experienced in many of the summer months.  As we get deeper into the fall season, the climate provides golfers relatively lower temperatures and humidity in comparison to those experienced in the middle of the year.   Golfers can expect to enjoy the local courses without having to bare the scorching heat.

Also, this time of year gives those of you who missed the opportunity to enjoy an outing in the spring time and early summer a second chance to enjoy a milder climate.  In short, you will find the opportunity to enjoy relaxing rounds in the morning or late afternoon with temperatures steering clear of the triple digits.  The increased rainfall in the late part of the summer season also softens many areas of the course, and improves the overall condition of the greens on many of the courses.

If you are wondering where to play, Golf Digest just recently published a Myrtle Beach trip report that will provide you a quick snapshot of some of the courses to choose from.  The report provides you a good idea of how the courses played in August as well as credible comparisons of some of the best courses available.  This resource will help you navigate through the many options available to you.    Follow the link: http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/blogs/wheres-matty-g/2011/08/trip-reports-myrtle-beach.html, if you are interested in hearing more about some of the premier courses and how they stood up in the trip review.

Whether you are planning a quick nine or a 36 hole tournament with friends, do not miss the opportunity to enjoy a round on the Grand Strand during this great time of year!  Remember, our GolfMasters are always available by phone 800 394 3764, email or Facebook to answer all your questions or book your rounds!

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Calling all golfers in Canada. Book your next Myrtle Beach Golf Vacation and fly Porter Air.

“This is the ideal time for Canadians to take advantage of the warmer winter golf season and the peak of spring weather. The return of Porter Air truly benefits the area by bringing in much needed seasonal business with a direct flight from Toronto in plenty of time for the 50th Annual Can-Am Days Festival March 12-20,” Director of Airports Michael La Pier said in a press release.

For the full article click here

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Greetings Golfers,

Week 3 of our nine week giveaway begins today.

The correct answer to our week 2 giveaway was The Pearl. The winner of a free round for 4 goes to MARK GIESE. Congratulations to Mark. To claim your free round all you need to do is contact a Golfmaster at 800-394-3764 AND mention your win on your Facebook page.

Week Three’s first clues for a free round for 4 are:

• Extensive renovations were done to this 27 hole facility. Over 2 million was spent to restore / upgrade the golf course.
• Removed over 200 trees to make it more playable

To be eligible for this weeks random drawing simply comment on our Facebook page with your guess as to which course it is. Let us know your best score, favorite hole or whatever fun fact you have.

More clues will be released on our Facebook page on Wednesday and Friday with the winner announced on Monday, along with a new giveaway……

To book the perfect Myrtle Beach Golf Vacation Click Here

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Myrtle Beach Golf received some good news according to a recent report. A survey conducted by the National Golf Foundation ranks the Myrtle Beach-area number one for quality and value in its golf courses.

Barefoot Resort was called out in the article. The courses are improving after a few tough years according to several pros. Barefoot consists of 4 courses, each one having unique challenges with meticulously manicured fairways and greens making them very pleasant to play.

Very good news for Myrtle Beach Golf.

For the full article click here. To book your next Myrtle Beach Golf Vacation give us a call 800-394-3764 or click here to contact us.

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Greetings Golf Nuts,

Week one of our free round giveaway is nearing an end. Here are the final clues for this weeks giveaway. Remember, all you have to do is guess the course by posting on our Facebook Page to be entered to win a free round for you and 3 of your best golfing buddies. For full set of rules click here

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Greetings Golf Nuts,

Over the next Nine weeks we’ll be giving away **free rounds of Myrtle Beach Golf for you and 3 of your best golf buddies. Here’s how it works.  On Monday and Friday of each week we will post 3 different clues on our Facebook page for you to “guess the course.”

All you have to do is comment on our Facebook page with your guess as to which course we are giving away. We will select at random every Sunday and post the winner on our Facebook Page (correct guesses only will be eligible). On Monday it starts all over again with a new course.

Be creative with your comments. If you know it and played it, what was your best score? What is your favorite hole? Have any fun facts that some might not know?

** Rounds must be PLAYED by June 1, 2011

Don’t have a Facebook account? Set one up today and Like Us!

Click Here to find us on Facebook

This weeks first clues are:

• Nominated for best new public golf course when it opened
• Low country style golf couse
• Named after a famous Dye produced in South Carolina in the 1700′s and 1800′s

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Golfers and Non golfers alike will appreciate this info.

No one has a swing speed of 150 mph, including Tiger Woods who is just under 130 mph. I had no idea the golf ball compresses this much.

But first a little history:

1- The Pro V-1 golf ball by Titleist is actually a three part ball, but you have to have a club head speed of at least 100 mph or more to be able to compress all three stages…If you don’t the ball never fully compresses and you don’t get the distance out of it that the pro’s do.

2- Most golfers, will get more distance out of a ball that only has two stages of compression…

Like the Titleist NG Tour. It is more suited to most golfers swing speed and we can compress it upon impact and can hit it further than the Pro V-1 ball.

3- So the secret is not to buy the most expensive balls out there because you are actually decreasing the distance you can hit the ball, unless your club head speed is over 100 mph, which unless you are a single digit handicap and young, it isn’t going to happen!!!

Watch this video, this shows what a golf ball goes through when hit at 150 mph…it’s amazing to me how long these balls last. Maybe that’s why the Pro’s use new balls ever time they play….

70,000 frames per second.

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A very interesting article was published yesterday in the local newspaper, The Myrtle Beach Sun News.  It speaks about the length and depth golf courses in the Myrtle Beach area have to go to, in order to keep playing conditions up to par…no pun intended.

The entire country has experienced record heat.  For the month of June South Carolina averaged 6 degrees warmer…it was the warmest on record….funny since we had the coldest winter as well….which makes you wonder about the whole global warming thing.

Anyway,  the article in the sun news talks about what golf courses are doing with different types of grass to keep optimum conditions.  It’s definitely worth the read and may give you a better appreciation for maintenance.  Let us know what you think.  As always our Golfmasters are always a good local source of information.

Here is a link to the article:  Myrtle Beach Sun News Golf Article

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Most Avid golfers are always interested in aerification, or the process in which golf courses aerate their greens.  Even with a golf course being in the best possible condition, aerification is necessary to preserve the conditions of the greens.

Typically golf courses in Myrtle Beach aerify Spring and fall to ensure healthy turf conditions.  By punching holes in the greens, in sizes varying from a dime to a quarter, it enables the overall health of the putting surface.  It prevents compaction and enables the greens to be soft and forgiving.  It also promotes healthier root growth, which makes it more drought and heat resistant.  The 3rd thing aerification does is allow water penetration.

While it’s no fun to play on greens that have been recently aerified, it necessary to keep the golf course up.  Your Golfmasters here at Golf Trek are constantly on top of Myrtle Beach golf course conditions so that we can ensure our customers do NOT play courses that have recently been aerated.  Fortunately most golf courses in the myrtle beach area schedule their aerification around non peak golf periods.  This minimizes the impact on the traveling golfer.

Here is a very interested video put out by the Pearl golf course about how they go about the aerification process.  I hope you enjoy.  The Pearl definitely is a course you should check out next time you are planning a trip to Myrtle Beach.

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Looking for a little game to play on your next Myrtle Beach Golf Vacation? I am not advocating gambling no, no, no not me but if your looking for a little game to play with your “FOUR” you may want to play 66, and 6, the “Devils Game” This is pretty much a basic format for gaming among 4s and there are many versions and adaptations. The general concept: You rotate partners ever 6 holes. We pick partners by draw as “Carts” “Driver”s and “Others” I have a little sheet with all the combos on it and one of the other picks a number and the teams are set. You could just toss a tee! Write it on the card as “CDO” “ODC” or what ever it is because we are old now and you’ll forget the teams by the second hole. Play is based on individual scores but you can do it anyway you want. We play “high/low” so it’s one point if your team gets the low score and and one point if the other team has the high score. Example: Team “Tom and Gary” score 3 and 4 while Team ” Wally and Gerald” score 4 and 5 . Team “Tom and Gary” receive 2 points for that hole since they had the low score and the other team had the high score and so on. Each 6 hole match is worth a fixed wager, lets say $5.00, PLUS THE SPECIALS, Ahhh the specials, we play both team members receive a special even if just one team members got it. Specials are also based on a fixed amount lets say $1.00. The specials we play are birdie, sandy (par out of any defined sand bunker ), chippy ( par or better from off the green) penalty par (par on a hole which you received a penalty), greenies, (closest to the pin on par 3′s with par) , and double par. (when both partners get a par or better). OK Tom and Gary won the first 6 hole match and Gary had two birdies and Tom had a sandy. Tom and Gary win $5.00 for the match and they had a total of 3 specials so they each receive $3.00 for the combined total of specials. Tom and Gary are up $8.00 going into the next 6 hole match.

Like I said, there are lots of variations to this game just make sure everyone knows what the game is before you start.

What do you play? Let us know, we are always looking for a new game to play !

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