Kids are all right –- and play for free – this summer on Myrtle Beach golf courses

        Families looking for a vacation or permanent home in the Myrtle Beach area would do well to pay the Grand Strand a visit this summer. The beaches in the area are underrated, the miniature golf is the best and most plentiful in the world, and a family looking to eat a lot at bargain prices will find comfort in one of the many buffet palaces that line Highway 17.  But, most of all, golf courses are abundant and play is available at deep discounts.  You can’t get any cheaper than no green fees, which is what it costs for kids to play on some of the Grand Strand’s best golf courses.

        The “Kids Play Free” golf program, the largest in the nation, is available this summer on more than 45 courses in the Myrtle Beach area, including designs by Jack Nicklaus, Pete Dye, Robert Trent Jones, and Dan Maples.  Children 16 years of age or younger are not charged green fees if they bring along a paying adult.  As an added attraction, the local marketing cooperative, Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday, has arranged single-day family tournaments on Wednesdays throughout the summer.  When he was younger, my son and I played in a few of these, and they were a lot of fun and appealed to both low and high handicap players.  The tournaments range from $40 to $60 (cart included) and shift from course to course each week. Grande Dunes, TPC Myrtle Beach and True Blue Plantation are among the many fine local courses hosting the one-day events.

The Grande Dunes Resort course is one of many in Myrtle Beach where children play for free this summer with a paying adult.  The program is the largest of its kind in the nation.

 

        For more information, check out www.SummerFamilyGolf.com.  And if, while you are in the Myrtle Beach area, you would like to look at some reasonably priced vacation homes for sale, just contact me and I will be pleased to share some ideas with you.  I have been visiting the Myrtle Beach area since the late 1960s and own a condo in Pawleys Island.  I know the area and its golf courses well.