Myrtle Beach Golf
Courses Prospering Again! Despite
the Myrtle Beach area’s incompetent and antiquated golf marketing
and management debacles, which, since 1999, has caused the loss of
over one million paid rounds of golf annually; the closing of 23
golf courses and the loss of over 2,000 jobs, the dramatic shrinkage
of the once unrivaled Myrtle Beach golf economy has now reached a
plateau.
Obviously, the
area’s golf industry will never again see the number of golfers, or
courses of the area’s pre-1999 heydays, but the good news in all of
this bad news is that the remaining Myrtle Beach golf courses are
once again prospering.
While the Myrtle
Beach area’s golf lodging facilities continue to struggle, and to
ruthlessly stab one another in the back, the remaining 90+ Myrtle
Beach golf courses are again flourishing, with the courses averaging
around 44,000 rounds each.
With the lodging
properties having such a huge room glut, golfers should book
all-inclusive packages, not ala carte!
After yet another
devastatingly hot and dry summer, where rainfall fell 20” below
normal, the rains finally came in October, and the burnt-up courses
have recovered.
Now, the Bad News! The
remaining golf courses are now “cashing in” on the lack of
competition, and are really “jacking-up” their prices.
Up until 2006, only
the top-rated Myrtle Beach golf courses could demand, and receive,
top dollar green fees. Now even the most mediocre courses are
demanding ever-higher green fees, and are squeezing in as many
hackers as they possibly can.
While the golf
courses are again flush, and the course conditions greatly improved,
the overloading of the courses has sadly made 6-hour plus rounds
commonplace.
The Myrtle Beach Golf Association’s “Lodging Basement! Ever
since the Myrtle Beach Golf Association began its popular ratings
for the Myrtle Beach area’s golf course’s and restaurants in 2001,
golfers have been asking the MBGA to rate the area’s resorts,
hotels, motels and rental properties. For years the MBGA chose not
to take on such a massive undertaking. Over the last two years,
however, the number of complaints about filthy lodging and
“rip-offs” escalated to shocking proportions, so MBGA Team began
exploring how to best provide the traveling golfers with the
guidance they have been asking for in order to make sound choices
when trying to select the best lodging for their golf vacations,
without the MBGA having to individually rate each of the hundreds of
properties on the Grand Strand. The answer was to simply establish a
“Lodging Basement,” and naming properties that, in the MBGA’s
opinion, golfers and other vacationers should avoid like the plagues
they are.
Please be advised
that no associated with the Myrtle Beach Golf Association has any
ownership, or any other interest in any of the Myrtle Beach golf
courses, restaurants or lodging properties, and the
MBGA
accepts no advertising, except from Google, from any of the Myrtle
Beach golf courses, restaurants or lodging properties. These two
factors make MBGA.COM truly a one-of-a-kind website, and assures the
golfers with unbiased and untainted information on Myrtle Beach
golf.
Checkout the Myrtle Beach Golf Association’s “Myrtle Beach Golf
Course Directory”
for one-click
access to everything you need to about every golf course in the
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina area. The Myrtle Beach Golf Course
Directory features each golf course’s MBGA “star” rating and which
Myrtle Beach golf courses have closed.
Each of the 90+
Myrtle Beach golf courses is presented in the Myrtle Beach Golf
Course Directory in a standardized format for easier evaluation and
decision-making.
On each golf
course's MBGA web page golfers will find the important details that
all golfers want to know such as… architects, grassing, slopes,
course ratings, contact information and more.
MBGA
“Star” Ratings:
In 2005, the Myrtle
Beach Golf Association did away with the old Golf Course Advisory
Stoplights, in favor of a more universally accepted, and easier to
understand “star” rating system.
Now, on the Myrtle
Beach Golf Association’s Golf Course Directory, and on each golf
course’s descriptive page, you will find one to five “stars” («) representing the MBGA rating for that course, with one
“star” («)
representing our worst rating and five “stars” («««««)
signifying our highest rating.
The MBGA
rankings are based upon each course’s layout, playability,
challenge, imagination, beauty, pricing, actual conditions (course,
clubhouse, restrooms, cleanliness, etc.), practice
facilities, pace-of-play, as well as the amount of development
around the course and the quality of their, food and beverage
facilities.
Particular emphasis and consideration is placed upon the
professionalism and friendliness of the staff at each Myrtle Beach
golf course.
Be sure
to visit the ever popular MBGA’s “Inside Scoop on Myrtle Beach Golf”
section
to find virtually everything you need to know about the ins and outs
of the Myrtle Beach golf economy, vacation planning, packaging,
wheeling and dealing, golf course information as well as the good,
the bad and the real inside scoop on Myrtle Beach golf.
Score Your Rounds Before and After You Play -
On each
golf course’s MBGA.COM web page you will find a link to the Version
4 interactive, hole-by-hole eYardageBook for that particular
course. Created by our friends at
GolfWits.Com,
you can view, plan and strategize all of your future and past Myrtle
Beach golf rounds in the comfort of your own home, before you depart
for your next golf vacation, or upon your return home – better yet,
do both.
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Voice Your Opinions Today on the “Best” and “Worst”
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Myrtle Beach Golf Courses! |
It makes no
difference whether you are a regular visitor to our area, or a
first-timer, we encourage you to cast your ballots for your own
Player's Top 20 Myrtle Beach area golf courses. Regardless,
whether you have one pick or 20, please send your Player's Top 20
nominees, comments and any other feedback, which you may deem
helpful to
Top20@mbga.com.
Note:
While it is
certainly not required, it would be very helpful if you would take a
moment and rank your nominees for the Player’s Top 20, with your
number “1” pick being the “Best Golf Course in Myrtle Beach,” and
“20” being your last nominee for the MBGA Player’s Top 20 roster.
How about those
crummy Myrtle Beach golf courses and lodging properties that you
wouldn’t want your fellow golfers to get stuck playing, or staying
in? Simply send those “lemons” to the Myrtle Beach Golf Association
at
Basement@mbga.com and they will consider them for inclusion in
the dreaded MBGA Basement. Again, regardless of whether you have one
pick or 20, please send your Basement nominees today, along with any
comments and any other feedback, which you may deem helpful.
Note:
Again, while
it is certainly not required, it would be very helpful if you would
take a moment and rank your golf course nominees for the MBGA
Basement as well, with your number “1” pick signifying the “Worst
Golf Course in Myrtle Beach,” and “20” representing your
“best-of-the-worst courses in town.”
While the MBGA
takes great pains to assure that all rankings, ratings and reviews
are as current and as accurate as humanly possible, they are by
their very nature subjective and should always be considered as
such.
The Myrtle
Beach Golf Association sincerely hopes that you will enjoy browsing
this site and that you will encourage your fellow golfers to visit
it as well. We also encourage your feedback on the site, and ask
that you submit any ideas that you may have to help make this site
better and even more helpful to you and your fellow Myrtle Beach
golf vacationers. Please send your suggestions, feedback and
comments to
Info@mbga.com.
