Written by Chad Kwiatkowski, Caravelle Golf Director

I have been a slacker with the Caravelle Golf blog since its inception the first of the year. I will be the first to admit that. I attribute it to two things: 1.) We are right smack in the middle of Myrtle Beach spring golf season and we have been very busy taking care of all of our Caravelle golfers. 2.) I have been playing like a pig.

I did have an opportunity to tee it up with one of my seasonal employees, KT, and a couple of my friends, Brad and Candace (If anyone out there is in need of a female scramble partner, she is your girl) at Willbrook Plantation. In three years this is only my second trip to Willbrook, the first time playing my own ball. Let me tell you, I have been missing out.

The second annual Caravelle Cup was recently completed and after enduring a driving rain in the best ball format of round one at Arrowhead Country Club and testy winds in the Texas scramble format of round two at Wild Wing Avocet, the team of Lance Trent and Robert Glance came away victorious. 

Entry written by Chip

I played Prestwick Country Club, Pete Dye's first in Myrtle Beach, a few weeks back in January.  The course was in pretty good condition overall.  The greens rolled true (as well as they will when I putt anyway) and the fairways were manicured so the ball generally sat up well for a good lie when I hit it in the fairway.  This time of the year Prestwick keeps the rough dormant so the lighter colored rough provides a great look against the green fairways.

 

Entry written by Rick

Having lived here in Myrtle Beach for a little over four years now, I've had the opportunity to play about half of the golf courses so far. When I get the chance to play one for the first time, it fills me with a sense of anticipation that I used to get on Christmas morning...ok I admit it, I still get the feeling on Christmas morning. So, it was with an eager sense of anticipation that I set out to play Caledonia for the first time.

Entry written by Matt

Chip and I got to play at Blackmoor with a couple of friends last Sunday and got involved in a heated two man best ball grudge match against each other.  Blackmoor is a great golf course designed by Gary Player that is set in the "low country" of South Carolina, which really just means that it's on the south end of the beach on a great piece of scenic property.  We had a perfect golf day with temperatures in the high 60's, though that it was apparently a little bit too cold for the alligators that are normally out on nice days on the pond that separates the 14^th, 15^th and 16^th holes.  I have seen as many as three gators on that section of the course, but they generally come out when it's about 10-15 degrees warmer.