[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” parallax_speed=”0.3″ video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” overlay_color=”” video_preview_image=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” padding_top=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” padding_right=””][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” center_content=”no” last=”no” min_height=”” hover_type=”none” link=””][fusion_text]As Hurricane Florence has now come and gone and Myrtle Beach golf courses were spared the worst of the storm’s wrath, at least 65 area designs – including most of those featured in Myrtle Beach Golf Packagers’ most popular package offering – were scheduled to reopen for play by week’s end.
Among those resuming daily operations are 10 of Myrtle Beach Golf Packagers’ 12 “Myrtle Beach’s Best” courses, including Arrowhead Country Club; the Fazio, Love, Norman and Dye courses at Barefoot Resort; Caledonia Golf & Fish Club; Glen Dornoch Waterway Golf Links; Prestwick Country Club; Tidewater Golf Club; and True Blue Golf Club. Two additional “Best” courses, Blackmoor Golf Club and Shaftesbury Glen Golf & Fish Club, are expected to reopen within days.
“Our Love and Dye course were the first to reopen, with very minimal debris and damage at all,” said Dave Genevro, general manager at Barefoot Resort & Golf. “That made it easy for us to get those two courses open to handle any play we had at Barefoot while we spent a little more time working on the others.” Genevro added that additional small debris from pine trees on the Fazio and Norman courses simply took a bit more work for the Barefoot staff to clear.
Bob Seganti, PGA director of golf operations at Caledonia and True Blue, noted similar cleanup efforts were required at his courses, stemming from minor storm impacts. “We had a few places with some minor flooding in some bunkers, but that happens from time to time after any heavy rain event,” Seganti noted. “Cleanup has been pretty quick, and visiting golfers can expect excellent, tournament-quality conditions when they come down this fall.”
As the cleanup is completed, Genevro conveyed assurances on the quality of the product visiting golfers can expect both at Barefoot, and across the Grand Strand through the fall golf season.
“I think anybody coming down on a golf package this fall, whether to Barefoot or playing other Grand Strand courses here, they can expect what they’ve found in the past when there wasn’t a hurricane,” said Genevro. “We have people here who know how to run golf businesses, and our facilities in the Myrtle Beach area will be as good as they’ve ever been.”
Live Course Condition Updates
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