(03-22-2019, 03:27 PM)Sammy Wrote:

(03-22-2019, 08:00 AM)Rico Wrote: Little story on my Myrtle Beach trip this year.  My long time friend (who is currently living in CA) and I get together for golf every year.  Usually in Myrtle Beach, but we've been other places as well.  On occasion we'll bring our wives but it is usually a guy trip.  Well I ran into a couple of friends on LinkedIn that I used to work with in PA before I moved down here in 1991.  Turns out that they do a Myrtle Beach trip every year, so my friend in CA and I will be joining that group this year.  He was also an employee of that same company so he will know everyone as well.  So long story even longer...I'll be hanging out with guys that I haven't seen for almost 30 years.  I'm really looking forward to it this year.  It should be fun.  You know...a bunch of 60+ year olds trying to act young for a few days.

That is cool that your trips aren't going to be ruined ... at least I hope everything goes as planned, and you perform as well as you would without having the injury.

Does the group you are getting in with have the Hotel setup their trips? I went for many years (10+) with a large group (32 players), and the Hotel would have packages. Depending on how nice of courses you wanted to play would have different cost.  They would have 5 different level course groups to choose from. You would pick a package that allowed so many high end courses, and then so many of the other 4 … We would generally pick a package that allowed 4 top end courses, and 4 of the next level down. We only paid the hotel for the entire package, cart included (we have stayed all over the MB area, and they all do this). The group I went with every year had 32 players, and we would usually play 27 holes, sometimes more per day (separate deal made with the course after the initial 18 holes).


The reason I bring this up is the cost was insanely cheap when you do a package for a group. We would go at the beginning of their off-season and play eight straight days. Having 16 rooms (or Condos) and 32 guys gave them a reason to put some really great packages together for us.  The Hotels had the ability to get better cost to work better packages for us to lower our individual cost because we had so many players.

I love Golf in Myrtle Beach, they have some awesome Golf Courses … Any in particular you are playing this trip you are looking forward to most? One of my favorites is/was Marsh Harbour which was just across the line into NC … But I hear it is closed now. Too bad, I got a carryover skin there that netted me almost two hundred bucks, and won another hundred on the team bets. Yep, one of my favorites for sure.

 
We generally stay in condos.  My friend in CA and I usually play four rounds in fours nights.  These guys that we joined up with this year play five in five.  We generally go to Myrtle...probably a good 20 times now...but have also been to Phoenix, Houston, and some courses around my friend's house outside on San Fran.  Man, I'm probably well over fifty different courses that I've played in Myrtle now.  I love it there.  We play mid-upper to upper tier cost-wise courses.  These guys that we are going with this year do some sort of gambling.  I think we have to put in $65 each.  Since it's usually just my friend and I...we don't gamble.  But what the hell, I'm game.  I'm just there to play golf and carouse.  If I happen to win a little money...even better.  I'm sure there will be ample opportunity to win some poker money as well.

I pick up my friend at the airport from his flight in and we drive up Tuesday night.  We're going a night early because we don't want to drive up and play on the same day...which is what most of these other guys do (only they're driving down from PA).

Here's our agenda this time.  I've  played Myrtlewood and Myrtle Beach National South Creek.  Myrtlewood is average.  But we stay at the Myrtlewood Condos and they always stick you on the 'home course' for a round.  South Creek was nice.  Looking forward to the other three.  The look pretty cool online.

Burning Ridge Golf Club     - April 10th 1:02 pm
Grande Dunes                  - April 11th  9:15am
Myrtlewood Palmetto        - April 12th  - 10:45 am
MBN South Creek             - April 13th  9:02 am
Wild Wing Avocet             - April 14th  8:24 am

I think there are 16 in the group.  Looking forward to seeing the guys that I used to hang with 28 years ago.  Should be fun.

Crap, that reminds me.  I lived in PA for 27 years.  I've been in FL for 28+ now.  I guess I'm a resident.

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