With the opening of Shaftesbury Glen Golfer Fish
Club in 2001, the Myrtle Beach area reached the end of one of the most
incredible periods of golf course construction in the game's history.
Now the region is experiencing an even more significant development.
Prior to 1985, the three-county coastal region around
Myrtle Beach known as The Grand Strand was home to fewer than 40 golf
courses. At about the same time, the game of golf began to attract millions
of new players. With plenty of available land and a nearly frost-free
climate with delightful spring and fall months, plus advances in course-construction
technology, The Grand Strand was perfectly situated to enter a "golf
boom" of unprecedented proportions.
More than 80 new golf courses have been built in the
Myrtle Beach area since 1985, resulting in an unrivaled number of 123
championship courses in a single vacation destination. Having now built
more courses than anywhere else on Earth, Myrtle Beach is determined
to make the quality of Grand Strand golf even more renowned than its
quantity.
Nearly all of the venerable "senior" courses
in the area have been completely renovated or substantially refurbished
in recent years. In addition, many layouts built in the late 1980s and
early 1990s have been likewise improved with new hybrid grasses and
sophisticated drainage systems. The result is a very high consisteney
of golf course quality among the 123 choices available to every Grand
Strand player.
The local commitment to a quality golf experience
for every Myrtle Beach area visitor is also evident off the course.
Many of the region's premier resorts and hotels have been enlarged or
upgraded with contemporary' decors and state-of-the-art amenities. Major
Grand Strand theaters now book ihe biggest names in live entertainment
and all have nightly house shows. Also open year-round are new and enlarged
shopping malls and more than 1.000 restaurants which feature fresh local
seafood among other dining delights. About the only thing that hasn't
changed is the Myrtle Beach tradition of hospitality. The friendly folks
who work along The Grand Strand appreciate your business and want to
make sure that you'll come back again.
So when you're planning your next golf vacation, keep
this in mind: Myrtle Beach still has more of everything you could want
and everything here keeps getting even better.
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