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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - The PGA Tour is making its long-anticipated debut in the Grand Strand with the first-ever Myrtle Beach Classic.

Myrtle Beach Classic Coverage

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the big event:

WHEN IS THE MYRTLE BEACH CLASSIC?

Tournament action takes place from May 9-12.

WHERE IS THE TOURNAMENT BEING HELD?

The tournament is being played at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club in Myrtle Beach.

WHAT’S AT STAKE?

The purse for the Myrtle Beach Classic is $4 million and the winner also receives 300 FedEx Cup points.

WHO IS PLAYING IN THE MYRTLE BEACH CLASSIC?

The tournament field includes former FedEx Cup champion Brandt Snedeker and PGA Tour winners Jhonattan Vegas, Joel Dahmen, Cameron Champ, Daniel Berger and Charley Hoffman.

Notable sponsor exemptions include Matt Atkins and George Bryan, who went to a playoff at a qualifying event last month.

WHEN DO GATES OPEN?

Spectator gates will open at the course at 6:30 a.m. on May 8-10 and at 7 a.m. on May 11-12.

The course will be closed to the public on May 6 and 7.

ARE THERE PHYSICAL TICKETS?

No. All tickets for the tournament are digital. Screenshots, printed screenshots or printed order confirmation emails will not get you in.

The barcodes for tickets will not display on a computer and can only be viewed on a phone.

You can, however, have all of the tickets on a single phone - but you must arrive with all members of the party in order to get in. Tournament officials recommend transferring any tickets to anyone attending with you.

If you have trouble accessing your tickets when you get to the tournament, help will be available at the admissions tent.

IS THERE RE-ENTRY?

No.

WHAT ABOUT PARKING?

Organizers will provide public parking at Lot B of the former Myrtle Square Mall site, located at 2400 Oak Street. Parking will be $15 per day and is not included with the purchase of a ticket. Rideshare drop-off/pick-up will also be located at 2400 Oak Street.

A free public shuttle to the course is also available, running around 15 minutes and covering six miles from the parking lot to the club. The shuttle will run from May 8 until May 12.

There is no on-site parking for spectators at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club.

WHAT CAN I BRING?

Per PGA Tour guidelines, “no bags larger than 6″x6″ (including carrying cases, backpacks, camera bags, or chair bags) are permitted through the gates.” The guidelines also ban clear, plastic vinyl or other carry items larger than 12″x6″x12″.

Collapsable chairs without chair bags and seat cushions that do not require a carrying case or have pockets/compartments are allowed. Portable chairs must be removed from the course each day.

Other banned items include glass cups or bottles, computers/laptops, video cameras, pets, selfie sticks or hand-held camera stabilizers, beverages, posters, signs or banners.

RULES OF THE COURSE

Fans are asked to set phones to vibrate and only take or make calls far away from the action on the course. Phones are allowed to take photos, videos and audio - but no flash photography is allowed.

WHERE CAN I WATCH?

If you don’t have a ticket to the event, you can watch live coverage of the Myrtle Beach Classic on The Golf Channel from 9:30-11:30 a.m. on May 9 and 10 and then from 3-5 p.m. on May 11-12.

WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?

Autographs can be obtained at the designated Autograph Zone. Autographs, however, are not allowed on any part of the course. No memorabilia is allowed to be brought into the venue.

A pair of musical performances will also take place at the Myrtle Beach Classic. Beach rock band The Swingin’ Medallions will perform May 9, while country duo Thompson Square will perform May 11. Each show begins at 6 p.m. and are free to ticketholders.

The U.S. Army’s Golden Knights parachute team will also put on an aerial display on May 9 before landing on the beach area.

You can check out more FAQs on the Myrtle Beach Classic website.

Stay with WMBF News for updates.

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The two spring motorcycle rallies held in the Myrtle Beach area each year bring thousands of people in, offering ample opportunities for locals to watch the visitors.

Spring Bike Rally will be from May 10 through 19, followed about a week later with Black Bike Week from May 24 through 27.

Here are some places you can go to soak in what people are doing and how they are enjoying their time in the Myrtle Beach area.

Beach House Bar and Grill, 1205 N. Ocean Blvd., Myrtle Beach, is a popular place for motorcyclists to gather because of the large porch out front and ample parking for motorcycles.

If you want a higher vantage point, head across the street to RipTydz Oceanfront Grille, 1210 N. Ocean Blvd., Myrtle Beach, which has a rooftop bar. You can sit and watch others drink and mingle or look below at vehicles, including motorcycles, driving by along Ocean Boulevard or pedestrians walking along the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk.

Tin Roof, located further north at 1410 N. Ocean Blvd., also offers a bar located up high, attracting visitors inside and allowing you a view of the boardwalk.

There is also Ocean Boulevard in North Myrtle Beach with additional restaurants that feature opportunities to sit and people watch. Many motorcyclists, especially those during Atlantic Beach Bike Week, cruise along this strip which extends from North Myrtle Beach to Atlantic Beach, the hub of Black Bike Week.

Spring Bike Rally tends to stay on the southern end of the Myrtle Beach area, so head down south near Murrells Inlet where you can see the first wave of bikers along the Grand Strand.

Members of the Ocean Pines retirement community, previously called the Jensen community, usually park their golf carts along U.S. 17 Business each year and watch the motorcycles ride by.

In Murrells Inlet, there are plenty of spots to set up a lawn chair and watch motorcyclists ride in the area.

Fire to Table, 3415 U.S. 17 Business, Murrells Inlet, is located across the street from Suck Bang Blow, offering the ability to enjoy a nice meal while watching the bikers live it up.

There are plenty of bars in Murrells Inlet where bikers gather to socialize and vendors set up to sell a variety of items.

Suck Bang Blow at 3393 Highway 17 Business and The Beaver Bar at 3534 Highway 17 Business are two popular places for bikers to gather. There also is The Rat Hole at 3833 Socastee Blvd. Unit B in Socastee.

At the end of May, the second wave of bikers will be in town for Black Bike Week, which tends to center in Atlantic Beach. Head down to the festival in Atlantic Beach to catch tourists and bikers partying.

The Myrtle Beach Mall, 10177 N. Kings Highway, has a large parking lot where motorcyclists enjoy showing off their bikes and hanging out during Black Bike Week.

Going farther north, Main Street in North Myrtle Beach offers many restaurants and places to sit to people watch. Some options include the Sky Bar and Harold’s on the Ocean.

MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA | Stroll down the hallway heading toward the grill room in the clubhouse at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club and the story of professional golf along what is called the Grand Strand comes to life.

There is a large black-and-white photograph of the graduating class from the 1973 PGA Tour Qualifying School finals played here. Look closely and there’s winner Ben Crenshaw with his long hair and, over his shoulder, there’s Gary McCord. Dr. Gil Morgan and Larry Nelson are there, too.

The Senior Tour Championship was played at the Robert Trent Jones Sr. design from 1994 through 1999, a big-money finale that crowned Raymond Floyd, Hale Irwin, Jay Sigel, Jim Colbert, Morgan and McCord as champions.

In 2014, Michael Block won the PGA Professional Championship at the Dunes Club. Webb Simpson won the Southern Amateur at the Dunes in 2005 and, back in 1962, Murle Lundstrom won the U.S. Women’s Open here on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, just a few years before the whole place became synonymous with golf.

The Grand Strand is a 60-mile stretch of South Carolina coastline extending north and south from Myrtle Beach, which hosts more than 17 million visitors annually and is home to more than 80 golf courses.

It has a little of everything: tacky beach stores, all-you-can-eat buffets, a boardwalk, a giant SkyWheel by the ocean, an impressive strip of high-rise hotels along the beach, Topgolf and PopStroke, high-end restaurants and golf courses.

Plenty of golf courses.

When local officials decided more than 50 years ago to make Myrtle Beach a destination, golf was at the core of the effort. According to Visit Myrtle Beach, the PGA Tour event’s title sponsor, more than 3.2 million rounds are played annually up and down the strand.

With approximately 38,000 permanent residents, Myrtle Beach swells to more than 300,000 during the busy summer season.

For a place that markets itself as the golf capital of the world, Myrtle Beach will welcome the PGA Tour for the first time when the $4 million Myrtle Beach Classic debuts May 9-12 at the Dunes Club. It’s being played opposite the Wells Fargo Championship, a $20 million signature event just over three hours away in Charlotte, North Carolina, where most of the tour’s top stars will tee it up. It hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm for what feels like a long-overdue stop at the Dunes.

Dennis Nicholl, director of golf at the Dunes, recalls having a conversation with Tracy Conner, president of the Myrtle Beach Area Golf Course Owners Association, a few years ago and asking, “If we’re the golf capital of the world, why don’t we have a tour event here?”

As it turned out, the tour began having conversations about coming to Myrtle Beach in late 2022. With the support of Visit Myrtle Beach as well as Discover South Carolina and Golf Tourism Solutions, key questions were answered.

In late April last year, Conner told Nicholl and superintendent Steve Hamilton that the tour was finalizing a four-year agreement to play at the Dunes.

“I thought it would be a Korn Ferry Tour event, but when we heard it was a PGA Tour event, it was hard to process immediately,” Nicholl said. “When he told Steve and me it would happen [this] May, our faces went white.”

Fast forward one year and the Dunes is ready.

The second-oldest course in Myrtle Beach, the Dunes is a classic old-school design featuring tree-lined fairways and elevated greens. It doesn’t sit on the ocean – the par-3 ninth hole plays toward the Atlantic and offers a striking view of the Dunes’ new beach club – but lagoons, marshes and a large lake with a corner known as the Singleton Swash are key features.

The 11th through 13th holes are known as Alligator Alley, and there’s no shortage of the creatures around the Dunes. The par-5 13th, which plays like a horseshoe around the swash, is one of the most renowned holes along the strand.

Like most beach courses, the wind plays a big role at the Dunes, and the prevailing southwesterly breezes will add an extra bit of bite to a layout listed at 7,347 yards for the tour event.

With a short runway to the inaugural event – which will feature Myrtle Beach native Vanna White of “Wheel of Fortune” fame as a celebrity guest on site – all of the championship tees were rebuilt, the putting green and chipping areas were expanded, a second short area was created and various other projects were completed.

With 875 members and hosting approximately 3,000 visitor rounds each year, the Dunes was already a busy place. Adding the tour visit accelerated multiple projects.

When it came time to begin soliciting volunteers late last year, more than 4,000 asked to receive information. When registration went live in October, more than 1,500 volunteers signed up in eight hours.

Ticket sales, originally expected to be around 4,000 per day, are approaching 10,000 per day. Every hospitality venue around the 18th green sold out, and more have been built around the 17th hole including a small fan zone with various attractions.

“We thought year one would be like an introduction and we could learn from it,” Nicholl said. “We don’t have time to learn. We are doing it.”

At a place built around golf, the PGA Tour is finally coming to town.

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - Wednesday night was all about reminiscing about Myrtle Beach for those who attended an event dedicated to the city’s old Pavilion.

The Pavilion was a staple in the community, an amusement park located on Ninth Avenue North and Ocean Boulevard for almost 60 years.

“It was such a great time in history here in Myrtle Beach,” said Tom Lorenz, who worked at the pavilion as a teenager.

“The Pavilion was the center of Myrtle Beach. It was a place of joy and peace and happiness for so many people,” said former Myrtle Beach city council member Wayne Gray, who also worked at the Pavilion growing up.

The Friends of Chapin Memorial Library put on the event with guest speaker Egerton Burroughs, great-grandson of Pavilion co-founder Franklin G. Burroughs.

“[The Pavilion] was based on family and children, and it was a happy place. It was, until the crowd downtown changed,” Egerton Burroughs told WMBF News.

Financial struggles led to the Pavilion’s closure in 2006, which Egerton Burroughs recalls as a sad day.

Since then, the property has been a site for events like the Carolina Country Music Festival and was home to the Myrtle Beach Adventure Zipline, which closed in January. The final remnants of the zipline attraction were torn down last week.

According to Jason Greene, CEO of Myrtle Beach Downtown Alliance, planners are only beginning to explore what’s next for the property.

But nothing definitive has been decided.

Although the future is unknown, those who remember the Pavilion days have high hopes for what comes next.

“We would love to see that area restored again to the beauty that we once were able to enjoy. The safety, the happiness, the fun, and all the memories,” said Lorenz.

Gray hopes whatever takes its place continues to spark joy among residents and tourists alike.

“It may not be an amusement park, or a dance hall, or an arcade center. But whatever it becomes, it can be a place that provides the same joy and happiness and peace with friends and family,” said Gray.

Egerton Burroughs said he isn’t a big part of planning for the property’s future but told WMBF News he hopes it turns into something lively and active for future generations.

Stay with WMBF NEws for updates.

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Many families around the country have traditions involving restaurants, whether it's returning to the same spot year after year for birthdays, Sunday morning brunches at a favorite local diner, or Friday night pies at a neighborhood pizza place.

While plenty of diners like to visit the same restaurants every year, every month, or even every week, others also want to try something new. Consumers today are "looking for new flavor experiences that excite their palates and provide a respite from their daily routines," Stacey Kinkaid, the vice president of product development and innovation at US Foods, said in a statement. "The trend of global flavors demonstrates this as diners look for discovery and escape from the ordinary."

US Foods, a major domestic food service distributor, surveyed 1,000 people who reflect the demographic makeup of the general American population about their dining out and takeout habits. They found that the average person dines out about three times per month for a wide range of reasons, from socialization to enjoying the atmosphere, and from celebrating something special to avoiding the labor of cooking (and cleaning up afterward).

As for what types of restaurants they tend to dine in, at the top of the list is casual dining (62%), followed by fast food (57%) and fast casual (54%). Contemporary casual (32%) and bar and grills (25%) round out the top five.

Need some inspiration for your next meal out? Stacker compiled a list of recently opened restaurants in Myrtle Beach using data from Yelp, including details on how each restaurant is rated by diners and the types of cuisine they serve. Get ready to make some new restaurant plans!

Note: The photos in this article are stock images and do not necessarily depict the specific restaurants listed or the dishes they serve.

Gios Pizzeria Napoletana

- Rating: 3.8/5 (4 reviews)

- Address: 4003 Deville St. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

- Categories: Pizza, Cocktail Bars

- Read more on Yelp

Scotch Bonnet

- Rating: 5.0/5 (4 reviews)

- Address: 4006 Postal Wy Unit F Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

- Categories: Caribbean

- Read more on Yelp

Mura Restaurant & Bar

- Rating: 4.3/5 (12 reviews)

- Address: 1390 Farrow Pkwy Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

- Categories: Korean, Bars

- Read more on Yelp

Swig & Swine

- Rating: 4.4/5 (30 reviews)

- Address: 523 Broadway St. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

- Categories: Whiskey Bars, Barbecue, Chicken Wings

- Read more on Yelp

This story features data reporting by Karim Noorani, writing by Jaimie Etkin, and is part of a series utilizing data automation across 74 metros.

© Stacker Media, LLC.

This story was originally published May 1, 2024, 12:54 PM.