Mayor's Cup to Promote Golf

Myrtle Beach is a wonderful place to get away for your winter vacation. Due to its good weather and amazing golf courses, it is a popular destination for anyone looking for a great vacation. This winter, in an effort to promote Myrtle Beach golf as a year-round activity, the city is starting an annual Mayor's Cup tournament at the city-owned Whispering Pines Golf Course. The Golf course is located at 31st Avenue South and Kings Highway.

Whispering Pines Golf Course is a true golfing pleasure. The golf course has over six thousand yards of grass for your golfing enjoyment. Whispering Pines offers an amazing combination of challenge and beauty, carved out of two hundred acres of towering pines and mature hardwoods by designers Finger, Dye, and Spahn. The course allows you to relax with its majestic scenery, while simultaneously engrossing you in its challenging course.

Tree lined fairways, carefully placed lakes, and undulating greens are a wonderful backdrop for the Mayor’s Cup Tournament at Myrtle Beach. With above average slope and handicap ratings, this traditional, classic design style course does not need gimmicks for a satisfying round of golf. The course is also extremely convenient, due to its location, which is just a half a mile away from the outstanding oceanfront hotels and attractions of Myrtle Beach.

In 1998, Whispering Pines was designated a “Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary� by the Audubon International, becoming only the third course in South Carolina to achieve this honor. They are still the only course in the Myrtle Beach area to earn this honor. Alan Chasteen, head golf professional at Whispering Pines, confirmed the plans for the Mayor’s Cup tournament, saying the inaugural event will be held in November and will be open to all golfers regardless of residency. The tournament will be fifty-four holes of straight stroke play, with the fields broken into flights after thirty-six holes. The tournament winners will receive a gift certificate and a replica of the Mayor's Cup. The actual Mayor's Cup will be a perpetual trophy, with each year's winners inscribed on it. These trophies will stay at Whispering Pines.

Mayor John Rhodes is scheduled to hold a press conference at Whispering Pines to announce the tournament, which will be Nov. 10-12 for men players and Nov. 17-19 for women. This tournament allows people discover that Myrtle Beach is a good place to play golf in November. The weather is terrific and the golf course is in great shape. It is a perfect time for people to get away and enjoy the excitement and relaxation of Myrtle Beach.

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