Ryan McCarty Shaftesbury Golf & Fish Club Myrtle Beach SC
I met Ryan McCarty, the Director of Operations, at Shaftesbury Golf & Fish Club in the pro shop and later interviewed him in front of the Scottish Castle that is a clubhouse downstairs and five Shaftesbury Suites upstairs. He spoke of owner Paul Himmelsbach and how he caddied as a young lad at Winged Foot Golf Club and brought that golf course to South Carolina. The ownership group of brothers Paul and Jack along with Marvin Arnsdorff started with Heather Glen and Glen Dornoch. Later they converted Himmelsbach family farmland into the Shaftesbury Masterpiece of generous and manicured fairways leading to well-bunkered elevated bent grass greens. Ryan grew up playing golf in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and moved to Myrtle Beach to be in the golf business year round. Though second in the title the fishing in the Waccamaw River behind the castle clubhouse is reported to be as good as the golf by golfers and fisherman alike. AG&TD2014046
Hickory Golfer Mitch Laurance Shaftesbury Glen Golf & Fish Club
If you have ever listened to or certainly if you have ever met Mitch Laurance you know him as an interesting guy with a cadre of looks, voice inflections and stories to quickly communicate his love of life and golf, especially hickory golf. His Curriculum Vitae includes Woodstock, working on production of Saturday Night Live the first five years of the show, including filling in on stage when needed, then moving to LA to become an actor, which brought him to golf.
With a twin brother and a younger brother growing up on Long Island he played all sports, especially baseball but never golf. An actor friend relentlessly encouraged him to try golf and he finally gave in. His friend said he would pick him up at six-thirty the next day to go golfing and Mitch’s response was to question the time since it would be getting dark at that time. He was immediately hooked by his inability to get the ball up into the air. He learned how to and after playing in the Crosby Pro-Am for 16 years and being a regular on the celebrity golf circuit he brought his game back east. Once an actor, always an actor though he was up and early for hickory golf at Shaftesbury Glen.
Long ago, sports psychologist and noted author, Chuck Hogan gave Mitch a life tip that has stuck with him ever since—‘How you do one thing is how you do everything.”
With that I will close by noting that the folks at Shaftesbury Glen present an immense golfing experience with their Shaftesbury Suites in a Scottish Castle within a pitch of the first tee box. They did that one thing right. You can image the rest! AG&TD2014048
First Family Fishing Trip 2019 | Conway, South Carolina
Our first fishing trip as a family in 2019. Watch as we head out to the Waccamaw river in Conway, South Carolina to try our luck at Bream and Catfish.
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The Hackler Course at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C.
Home to the Myrtle Beach area's only university-based course, the Hackler Course is a Gene Hamm design that stands out as a top facility off Highway 501.
Tidewater Golf Club Review
Tidewater GC is a beautiful course that strings through a neighborhood in North Myrtle Beach, SC. Built in 1990 it has been ranked as one of the best courses in the state and in the country. No longer ranked, it still plays as an elite track. I thoroughly enjoyed the size of the greens and their varying slopes. Attacking the pin wasn't always the best option. I was a littld concerned about the mixed reviews I saw, but after playing I think they are totally undeserving. I played the first week of October and it was beautiful. Also, I was told they do over-seed the fairways for the winter which is a nice touch. It isn't needed, but it looks pretty.
You can check them out through PGMB has the almost ALL the courses nicely listed with current rates. It is a great resource if you are not from the area.
You can also go directly to Tidewater, but I have had issues with their website.
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Hickory Golfers Mitch Laurance & Andy Reistetter Shaftesbury Glen Golf & Fish Club
Was it mere coincidence that I met my old (as in longtime for we are both in that longtime senior division of life) Mitch Laurance in the pro shop at Shaftesbury Glen Golf & Fish Club? Or by simple Scottish fate that the golf gods would bring together two lads wearing knickers and brandishing hickory-shafted drivers? No academy Awards to be given here though the clubs certainly look vintage same as those in The Greatest Game ever Played. Ah so be it we met and headed to the first tee to put a peg in the ground.
Before sailing that feathery down the first fairway courtesy of the Sunningdale Special Express, the voice of hickory golf himself, spoke of his connection to golf history through playing hickory golf. Who can dispute him as the authentic 100-year old club made by Jack White was created in the same batch as the driver of Bobby Jones during his Grand Slam year of 1930.
Sporting my blue and gold checkered knickers I followed the master with a smash of my own. Right down the pretty goes our first tee shots. Hickory golf at its best, two grown men in knickers playing a twosome at Shaftesbury Glen Golf & Fish Camp, a.k.a. Hickory Golf Central of the Southeast United States.
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Farmstead Golf Links Near Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Join us on a wondrous video tour of one of the Grand Strand's most notable golf courses: Farmstead Golf Links in Calabash, N.C., a Willard Byrd design featuring a par-6 finishing hole that begins in one state and ends in another!
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Pine Hills Course at Myrtlewood Golf Club ~ A Member of Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday
Not only has PineHills at Myrtlewood been singled out by Golf Digest as one of the Top Ten Courses in Myrtle Beach, it also bears the distinction of being the first and only Grand Strand golf course designed by award-winning architect Arthur Hills. Often called upon to redesign fine old venues for PGA and USGA events, Hills' skillful use of mounding and strategic placement of water hazards transformed the venerable Pines course in 1993, creating PineHills, a modern masterpiece of beautifully contoured fairways and generous greens that delivers the best of the game to golfers of all levels.
Upper Mill Plantation
Built by Henry Buck in the middle 1800s, Upper Mill Plantation is a Conway treasure, tucked along the banks of the Wacamaw River.