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Myrtle Beach National to Host Seventh Annual Junior Golf Shootout, April 2-3
03/09/2010
March 9, 2010, Myrtle Beach, S.C. – Myrtle Beach National will play host to the seventh annual Myrtle Beach Junior Golf Shootout during Easter weekend, April 2-3. The spring partner of the George Holliday Tournament, held annually in November, the Junior Golf Shootout hosts more than 150 boys and girls between nine and 18 years of age for the two-day tournament. The tournament entry fee for players 10 through 18 years of age is $135 with a registration deadline of March 30. The entry fee for players nine years of age and younger is $60.
Sponsored by Myrtle Beach National, and Coca-Cola®, the Junior Golf Shootout features two tournament rounds at Myrtle Beach National’s Southcreek and West Course, lunch each day, a welcome gift, door prizes and fun for the entire family. Sanctioned by the South Carolina Junior Golf Association, tournament participants can earn points towards the Heritage Classic Foundation Rankings.
“The Junior Shootout is a great complement to our fall George Holliday Tournament as it showcases college-talent bound players,” said Jim Woodring, vice president of golf operations for the Myrtle Beach National Company. “The Junior Shootout gets bigger and better each spring and offers the same competitive challenges for junior golfers, just earlier in the year. These events support our commitment to growing the game of golf with our yearly program of ‘Kids Play Free’ at all of our courses.”
Last year, 17-year old Tim Crouch from Mount Vernon, Ohio won the boys overall title with a birdie on the fourth playoff hole and posted a two-day total of 148. Stani Shiavone from Bangor, Penn. won the girls title by six strokes with a score of 154. Myrtle Beach boys junior golf standouts Beau Teal and Austin Frick are already entered for this year’s event. Teal finished fourth overall last year. In 2009, nine states were represented in the two-day event as well as one foreign country.
For more information or to register for this year’s Myrtle Beach Junior Golf Shootout tournament, call 1-800-344-5590 or visit mbn.com.
About The Myrtle Beach National Company
The Myrtle Beach National Company has evolved into one of the leading golf course ownership and now management companies in the Southeast, featuring many of the most well-respected signature courses along the Grand Strand. The company was formed in 1971 with the construction of the Arnold Palmer-designed original 54-hole golf complex, which includes the West Course, SouthCreek (both designed by Francis Duane and Arnold Palmer) and King’s North, also an Arnold Palmer design that has achieved national notoriety. Myrtle Beach National has grown to include the Robert Trent Jones designed Waterway Hills, Jack Nicklaus’ Long Bay, Tom Jackson’s River Club and Aberdeen Country Club, Dan Maple’s Willbrook Plantation, Willard Byrd’s Litchfield Country Club, Gary Player’s Blackmoor Golf Club, Clyde Johnston’s Wachesaw Plantation East, Ron Garl’s Tradition Golf Club, and Jeff Brauer, Larry Nelson, Tom Fazio’s TPC Myrtle Beach, and Willard Byrd’s Wild Wing Plantation, all premier Myrtle Beach area signature courses.
Myrtle Beach National has hosted tournaments for men, women, senior or junior golfers for more than 35 years to help grow the game of golf. Every November, Myrtle Beach National-sponsored George Holliday Memorial Tournament, recently named one of the top-ranked junior tournaments by the Heritage Classic Foundation, draws more than 300 prep golfers to the Grand Strand. During the spring, Myrtle Beach National welcomes more than 150 junior golfers to the area during Easter weekend for the Myrtle Beach Junior Golf Shootout Tournament. In the fall, Myrtle Beach National welcomes women golfers and couples to the Grand Strand for “The Carolina Couples Classic” and “Just Girls Weekend.” For more information, visit MBN.com or call 1-800-882-2614.
