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Myrtle Beach National Offers “Golf Green Fee Giveaway” Contest
12/02/2008
December 2, 2008, Myrtle Beach, S.C. — The Myrtle Beach National Company is offering golfers the opportunity to instantly win free green fees by visiting MBN.com before booking their trip to the Grand Strand area. Since introducing the giveaway earlier this fall, more than 1,400 golfers have won free green fees at one of the nine Myrtle Beach National golf courses by registering for the online contest. The Golf Green Fee contest runs through March 15, 2009, with all rounds tot be played by May 31, 2009. All winners are responsible for their cart fees.
“Visitors to the MBN.com site can plan their entire golf or beach vacation from rooms to golf times with the convenience of visiting one site on the Internet,” said Jim Woodring, vice president of golf operations at Myrtle Beach National. “Myrtle Beach National has nine wonderful golf courses and we want to reward anyone who frequents our Web site with free green fees at one of our facilities this fall.”
About Golf Insider
For golfers still undecided on what course to play during their Grand Strand vacation, “Golf Insider” provides golfers with a reliable source of non-biased information about Myrtle Beach courses. A golfer-driven, online social network that shares the experiences of golfers who have made recent visits to the Grand Strand area, "Golf Insider" provides golfers with the opportunity to read other players’ comments and share their own golf experiences on all area golf courses at MBN.com/golf-insider. Hosted by Myrtle Beach Golf at MBN.com, golfers can view course videos, search for available tee times and rates, book packages and tee times in real time with access to every course’s complete tee sheet, maps of area courses, and review area coupon offers and much more.
About Myrtle Beach Golf
Myrtle Beach Golf is a division of the Myrtle Beach National Company which has evolved into one of the leading golf course ownership and management operations in the Southeast, featuring many of the most well-respected signature courses along the Grand Strand.
The company 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 and Willard Byrd’s Litchfield Country Club, all premier Myrtle Beach area signature courses. In September of 2008, Myrtle Beach National took over the management of Blackmoor Golf Club.
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. Each Thanksgiving, the 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 Shoot-out Tournament. In the fall, Willbrook Plantation welcomes women golfers and couples to the Grand Strand for “The Carolina Couples Classic” and “Just The Girls Weekend.” For more information, visit MBN.com or call 1-800-882-2614.
