Day 4 - Heathland

Day 4 in 2016 brings us back to home base.  Heathland was the first of the on-site Legend's courses and designed by Tom Doak.  Breakfast and lunch is provided at the Legends.

Heathland is probably the most open of the courses we will play, so it should make us feel better about our games.  When it opened, the Heathland course was named one of the Top 10 New Resort Courses in the World.

Check this review of  Heathland - Legends.  Enjoy the read and think warm weather.

Heathland Course at Legends

For a video look at the courses at the Legends complex, see the link below.
Legend's - Heathland

 

Day 3 - Parkland

Day 3, Sunday has us on site at the Legends Parkland Course.  Today we have breakfast, lunch and 2 beers included.

Parkland was the third course built at the Legend's complex.  In a word, it is a Parkland-style course.  Parkland utilizes the natural terrain with contoured, tree-lined fairways, vast natural areas, deep-faced bunkers and massive, multi-level greens.

The Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday offers this review of the Legends - Parkland.

Day 2 - Tidewater

For those who arrived Friday, get some sleep (who am I kidding), just get ready for a drive on the first day to Tidewater Golf Club in North Myrtle. Breakfast and lunch are not included this day. Our tee time is at 8:00. With a little over a half hour driving time of a little over 30 minutes. We will need to hit the road at/by 7AM.

Tidewater may be South Carolina’s most awarded golf course and is recognized as a one of the premier North Myrtle Beach Golf Courses.

Tidewater Golf Club is arguably the area’s most scenic layout with eight holes playing along the Intracoastal Waterway or Cherry Grove Inlet. The third and 12th holes might be the best pair of par 3s on the East Coast, and the par 5th 13, which offers a view of the Atlantic Ocean, upstages both.

Nearly two decades of rave ratings prove that Tidewater Golf Club is simply one of the best golf courses on the Grand Strand. On its opening in 1990, the course was enthusiastically applauded as one of America’s truly great new layouts. Ranked in Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play in 2007, it has also recently made Golf Magazine’s “Top 100 You Can Play” listing. To this day, it remains the only layout ever to be named “Best New Course” by both Golf Digest and Golf Magazine.

Check out this review of Tidewater.

For a video look at Tidewater check out these links. Video 1. Video 2. Video 3.

Meet The New Guy - Fire Marshal Doug

Doug Moore will be joining the group for Myrtle Beach 2016. Doug is a long-time resident of Roanoke; loves the area so much he has never left (born and raised). He resides with his wife and son, who is a senior at Northside and looking forward to college in the fall. His daughter attended Bridgewater College and currently a junior at Liberty University.

Doug started with the City of Salem Fire Department at 22 years old (currently in his 27th year with the city), working his way from firefighter to his current position as the City Fire Marshal. Always good to have his expertise around in the event of a Fireball or other related drink accident.

If the math is correct, we can celebrate his upcoming 50th birthday Myrtle Beach-style.

Doug has a passion for the outdoors, enjoying fishing, hiking, kayaking and golfing. I even recall him mentioning that he one time raced motor bikes but a lingering back injury halted that career.

He is also a current member of Blacksburg CC.

Please help me in welcoming Doug to the group. He is very excited and very much looking forward to the trip this year.

Submitted by David Clemson

Day 1 - Moorland

Our opening course will be Legend's Moorland.  Moorland was recently named the 37th toughest course in America.  Of course that is from the back tees.  We will play a more comfortable, but no less challenging course for our first round in Myrtle.

The Moorland Course at Legends Resort is one of Myrtle Beach’s most talked about designs. The course is renowned for the size of its fairways and greens, but it’s the short, par 4 16th, known as Hell’s Half Acre, the people never forget.

Lunch and 2 beers are included.  Tee time is 1:30, so we'll need to meet at the clubhouse for lunch around noon.

Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday recently posted Great Scenery and Challenge Define Moorland.