MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Now playing on TravelGolf.com is a feature I just scribbled up on the best Myrtle Beach golf courses to boost your confidence. Click here to read the whole article and see my picks. I don’t know about you, fellow traveling golfers, but the last thing I want to do after I haven’t teed it up in awhile is show up to a course with tons of hazards, or houses (which, to us, is nothing more than O.B. stakes and potential lawsuits) littered around its holes. When I’m planning a golf vacation, I try to book an ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Even if you’ve played the Grande Dunes Resort Course, perched mightily above the Intracoastal Waterway in Myrtle Beach, you may not even know there is a second golf club tucked further back within this massive new resort and residential complex. It’s the Grande Dunes Members Club: an exclusive, member’s-only club, with one exception. Guests of the Marina Inn, which sits on the waterway right next to Grande Dunes’ Resort course, can tee it up on the Members course and even book golf packages on both courses. Though these privileges are mostly unadvertised, you’ve got access to ...

So I’m enjoying an order of buffalo wings and a soda following my first round here in Myrtle Beach this week when I come across a giveaway that makes me blow Cherry Coke out my nose: The Pinehurst Resort is giving away free golf on any of their courses for a year as part of their new Unlimited Golf Package offer for 2009. Here’s the skinny on what you win and how to enter: From now through May 31, golfers from around the globe can enter the resort’s spring sweepstakes to win unlimited golf at Pinehurst for a year. ...

The Travelers Championship, a PGA Tour event held June 22-28 at the TPC River Highlands in Connecticut announced this week they’ve extended their sponsorship through 2014. That has to be good news for the PGA Tour, who have already lost the US Bank sponsorship in Milwaukee and several of the current General Motors and bank sponsorships could be hanging by a thread. But there’s good news in all of this for golf fans, too. The Travelers Championship has a special promotion through February 27th where you can buy tickets for just $14 a pop. That’s not practice round or Pro-Am ...

The Myrtle Beach Sun News recently released it’s list of the Grand Strand’s 18 holes, selected by a panel of experts, which included local golfers, pros and regular visitors to the area. Click here to view their selections. Having played at least 50 or 60 Grand Strand courses, here’s my thoughts on what I thought the panel got right - and wrong. After all, I’d expect the same critiques of my lists from you. First off, I’m surprised to see three holes from Tidewater, making up 1/6 of the list (I don’t think any golf course should have more than ...

I only played one golf course in Kuala Lumpur last December while in Malaysia. The rest of my time was spent two hours south in historic Melaka. But the one club I did visit while in the country’s largest metropolis was a doozy: Saujana Golf & Country Club just outside of town. It’s also host to the European Tour this week for the Maybank Malaysian Open, headlined by American Anthony Kim, now a card-carrying member of the tour so he can compete in the lucrative Race to Dubai. In K.L., Royal Selangor is considered the most prestigious club, thanks mostly ...

I was watching about a half hour of the Buick Invitational this afternoon before falling asleep on the couch. I’m sorry, I have a hard time getting into an event with no real big names (sorry Camilo, you’re not an A-lister yet) dueling it out, although Torrey Pines and the San Diego coastline looks splendid on HD. Everyone hoped native Phil Mickelson would redeem himself at Torrey Pines after his U.S. open fiasco a season ago. But this week, he never threatened, finishing 42nd. Padraig Harrington was another big name to watch, but even though he’s been the best player ...

The name of the game for 2009 travel is making your money stretch. I think we’re all trying to find creative ways to save a little cash so long as we all think our jobs are next on the chopping block. Then again, I don’t plan on cutting my vacation days down any this year just because banks around the world thought it’d be a good idea to issue million dollar loans to farm animals. Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday, the giant golf course packaging co-op of every worthy play on the Grand Strand recently released their eight tips for saving ...

Sure, Super Bowl XLIII was a wild one. But having caught a replay of the Dubai Desert Classic on the Golf Channel just now, the Steelers’ last-minute comeback wasn’t even the best drama on Sunday. A teen sensation with the weight of his country on his shoulders only pulls out his first pro tournament once. And after losing in two playoffs last year, Northern Ireland’s 19-year-old phenom Rory McIlroy gut-wrenchingly squeaked out his first professional win on the European Tour in Dubai. If you didn’t see the action, McIlroy went from taking home his first win in a landslide - ...