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Dunes Golf and Beach Club Named as One of America's Top 100 Classic Courses by Golfweek Magazine
3/20/08

The Dunes Golf and Beach Club has been named one of Golfweek Magazine’s “Top 100 Classic Courses” in its annual “Golfweek’s Best” rankings. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, The Dunes Golf and Beach Club was ranked No. 94 in 2008, and was one of two South Carolina courses to make the list (Yeamans Hall Club, #40).

Golfweek defines a classic course as being built prior to 1960, and rates courses based on criteria that includes the ease and intimacy of routing, integrity of design, quality of feature shaping, natural setting and overall land planning among other categories. The Dunes Club was first named to Golfweek's list of "100 Best Classic Courses in 1998, and is the only Myrtle Beach area course to be named among the top 100 each year. Among countless other accolades, the Dunes Club as named as the #28 best public course in the United States by Golf Digest earlier this year.

The Caravelle Resort is a resort member of this famed golf club and you can be a Member for the Day when staying with us. Call our Golf Director at (800) 507-9145 for more details on how you can reserve your place on this amazing golf track.


Newly Opened Leopard's Chase Honored
12/31/2007


The recently opened Leopard's Chase Golf Club has been honored with some pretty hefty awards by two of the nation's premier golf publications, GOLF Magazine and Golf Digest as one of the nation's top new golf courses.

GOLF Magazine named Leopard's Chase to its prestigious Top 10 New Courses You Can Play list, while also being named to Golf Digest's Best New Public Courses Over $75 list.

Leopard's Chase can be booked directly through the Caravelle golf department whether on your golf package or by calling and setting up the round separately. Make sure you book early though, because with acclaim like this there is no doubt that tee times at Leopard's Chase will surely fill fast!


10 Grand Strand Courses Named to National Top 100 List
1/1/2008


In a banner year for Myrtle Beach golf, the Grand Strand was honored earlier this year by having 10 courses named in Golf Digest's renowned America's Top 100 Greatest Public Courses list.

Long known as the Golf Capital of the World, Myrtle Beach has reasserted itself as not just where to go for a wide variety of golf courses, but as THE number one destination for top quality golf. To put this incredible accomplishment in perspective, no other STATE managed to crack double digits on the list.

Leading the list as the highest rated Grand Strand golf course is the famed Dunes Golf and Beach Club, followed by Tidewater, the Heritage Club, the Barefoot Love course, Rivers Edge, Tiger's Eye, King's North at Myrtle Beach National, Caledonia, True Blue and the Barefoot Fazio course.

All of these top rated courses and all of the other fantastic Grand Strand courses are available for booking at the Caravelle Resort, the founder of the Myrtle Beach Golf Package.


Wild Wing to Open New 9 Hole Course
1/15/2008


The Wild Wing Plantation has announced that the newly built Hummingbird nine hole course will be open for play on January 19, 2008, joining the popular Avocet course at the facility.

Wild Wing closed the Woodstork course and the original Hummingbird at its four course facility in summer of 2006 and the Falcon course soon followed in early 2007. The newly formed Hummingbird nine hole course will be made up of reworked holes from a combination of the old Woodstork and Hummingbird courses.

Stay tuned to our golf blog, as at least one lucky member of our staff will get to play the Hummingbird nine and will report their thoughts on the new track. As part of your golf package we can book the nine holes on its own, as 18 holes, or on a special "reverse 27" where you can play the Hummingbird nine and follow it with the Avocet 18.


Six Grand Strand Courses Named as One of "America's Best Courses"
3/28/08

Six Grand Strand area golf courses have been honored in the 2008 Golfweek Magazine “America’s Best Courses” ranking. The annual Golfweek ranking is comprised of three separate lists that name the top 100 classic courses built before 1960; the top 100 modern courses built after 1960, and the state-by-state list of the top courses. The criteria used by Golfweek raters to evaluate golf courses included the ease and intimacy of routing, integrity of design, quality of feature shaping, natural setting and overall land planning among other categories.

Caledonia Golf & Fish Club was named to Golfweek’s “America’s 100 Best Modern Courses” ranking at No. 100, while The Dunes Golf and Beach Club was ranked 94th in Golfweek’s “America’s 100 Best Classic Courses” list. Both Caledonia and The Dunes Club have made the magazine’s annual rankings for the last 10 consecutive years.

Golfweek Magazine also recognized the top 10 golf courses in South Carolina with six Grand Strand area courses making the “Best State-by-State Public Access Courses” list. Caledonia led all Grand Strand courses in third place with The Dunes Club just behind in the fourth spot. Tidewater Golf Club and Plantation was ranked as the sixth-best course in the Palmetto State while True Blue Plantation was ranked seventh. The TPC at Myrtle Beach was recognized in eighth place while the Love Course at Barefoot Resort was ranked 10th.


Caravelle Resort Named Host Resort for NGA Hooters Tour Carolina Series
02/19/08

For the first time ever the Hooters Tour is hosting a 19 event Carolina Series as part of the tour with stops in Columbia, SC, Charlotte and the Golf Capital of the World, Myrtle Beach. As the home of Myrtle Beach Golf, The Caravelle Resort has been named as the Host Resort of the NGA Hooters Tour Carolina Series for Myrtle Beach events.

The NGA Hooters Tour is the third largest 72 hole men's professional golf tour in the United States behind the PGA and Nationwide Tours, and boasts alumni like 2007 Masters champion Zach Johnson, 2003 PGA champion Shaun Micheel, 2003 British Open champion Ben Curtis, 2003 US Open champion Jim Furyk, British Open and PGA champion John Daly, two-time US Open winner Lee Janzen, British Open champion Tom Lehman, as well as PGA champion David Toms, Tour Championship winner Chad Campbell and back to back Reno Tahoe Open winner Vaughn Taylor to name just a few. Stay at The Caravelle and stay among tomorrow's stars of the PGA Tour!


Related: http://ngahooterstour.com/
"Road Trip: Myrtle Beach" Reality Show to Premiere on The Golf Channel
1/24/08

The GOLF CHANNEL is bringing the ultimate Myrtle Beach golf experience to 110 million homes worldwide with the February 5th debut of Road Trip: Myrtle Beach, the first reality show to be based in the state of South Carolina. Each original episode will air Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. and will be rebroadcast during the week.

Filmed entirely along the Grand Strand, a 60-mile stretch of coastline along the Atlantic Ocean that extends from Southport, N.C. to Georgetown, S.C., the Myrtle Beach area is the first golf destination to play host to a non-competitive reality program. Road Trip: Myrtle Beach will provide a backstage glimpse at why the Grand Strand area is known as the “Golf Capital of the World” with more “Top 100” golf courses than any other destination and three million rounds recorded on area golf courses each year.

The 12-episode series follows former PGA TOUR professional and current ESPN commentator Charlie Rymer, Hootie & the Blowfish band member Mark Bryan, musician Josh Kelley and Duramed FUTURES Tour player Perry Swensen as they enjoy an extended Myrtle Beach golf vacation. Each episode takes place at a different Grand Strand golf course and features light-hearted banter between cast members, course information and videos, game management tips and golf instruction by Rymer, the foursome’s activities after golf at area restaurants and night spots and live, original music, including the show’s theme song that was written and recorded by Bryan and Kelley. The show’s fifth recurring member, a 1962 red convertible Cadillac, is easily recognizable as it transports the foursome along the Grand Strand.


The Founders Club at Pawley's Island Set to Open in February
1/10/2008


The Founders Club at Pawleys Island is set to open this February and has begin accepting tee times. The course was built on the site of the former Sea Gull club, but has taken on a completely new look with its major overhaul. Former lead architect of the Gary Player Design team, Sam Walker has transformed the course along the same route while making dramatic changes in the topography and elevation of the land as well as adding more native waste areas to set the tees, fairways and greens apart.

Stay tuned to our golf blog as one of staff members will be fortunate enough to report our thoughts on the course shortly after it opens. Contact us to book The Founders Club at Pawleys Island as part of your package or separately with your room.


Local Product Dustin Johnson Off to Stellar Start on the PGA Tour
02/20/08

Myrtle Beach resident Dustin Johnson is finding life on the PGA Tour to be pretty simple compared to your typical tour rookie. Johnson, a three time All American from Coastal Carolina, qualified as a full time member of the 2008 PGA Tour by finishing T14 in the 2007 PGA Q School and has immediately proven himself to be a capable competitor amongst the stars of Tiger, Phil and the host of other mainstays on the tour.

After only five events, Johnson finds himself 19th on the tour money list and 18th on the Fed Ex Cup standings with two early top 10 finishes and a third finish in 12th place. Johnson's 70.10 scoring average places him 13th on the tour list and his remarkable ability has stood out most off of the tee, with his booming drives averaging well over 300 yards, placing him 3rd in driving distance on the tour.

While Johnson won't be found in this week's World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship, don't expect him to be excluded from these elite fields for long. After only six career events Johnson has not accumulated enough world ranking points to qualify for this event, but it's a safe bet that he won't be left behind by the cream of the PGA Tour's crop for long.


Hootie and the Blowfish Return for the Monday After the Masters celebrity event
3/21/08

The annual Hootie and the Blowfish Monday After the Masters Celebrity Pro-Am golf tournament makes its return to the Dye Club at Barefoot once again on April 14. Benefiting the Hootie and the Blowfish Foundation supporting education and music programs for kids, the event has been a hit since relocating to Myrtle Beach in 2003, in fact Golf for Women magazine recently named it one of the top 20 celebrity golf events in the country.

Past celebrities to join all four members of Hootie and the Blowfish by playing in the event have included Dan Marino, Samuel L. Jackson, Marcus Allen, Alice Cooper, Brett Favre and many more.

Spectator tickets to the event will be available for $10 in February through the House of Blues at (843) 272-3000, but are generally readily available on a walk up basis the day of the event.


The Caravelle Resort is Named Official Host Resort of The Golf Channel Amateur Tour
01/30/08

The Golf Channel Amateur Tour is making a new home in Myrtle Beach, SC in 2008 and has recently announced that the Caravelle Resort will be the tour's Official Host Resort in Myrtle Beach.

The Golf Channel Amateur Tour is a group of regional amateur golf tours that offer amateur golfers of all skill levels an opportunity to compete in true tournament conditions while playing some of the finest golf courses all over the country. All participants are able to take their chance at winning great prizes and accumulating statistics throughout the year that culminate in year end tournaments. While many cities have have hosted the tour in years past, Myrtle Beach, the Golf Capital of the World, has now been added to the list.

The $199 Annual Tour Membership allows members to play in events within their home region, as well as in other regions throughout the country for a very reasonable event entry fee. The Myrtle Beach tour, while being openly offered to locals is expected to draw as many outside members to events as any tour, so many of the events will take on a true national flair.

For further information on The Golf Channel Amateur Tour, please click the link below or contact Timothy Mack at tmack@theaagt.com. As the host resort of the tour, the Caravelle Resort will be offering special accommodations rates to all players playing in the events. Myrtle Beach section of the tour


Related: http://www.thegolfchannel.com/GALeagueTournament/tour.asp?source=aagt&detail=1&menuitem=1&TOUR_ID=387

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