Golfing the Carolina Grand Strand [Hardcover]

Tommy Woodrum (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1993

Tour of 75 top-rated golf clubs and resorts.

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About the Author

Growing up is Charleston, it looked like Tommy Woodrum was destined for a career at the family furniture store, WOODRUMS' then located on Virginia Street. But things took a different course for him. By the age of fourteen he was writing for the Charleston Gazette and soon after, entered broadcasting with WTIP where he announced high school basketball and football games for STONEWALL JACKSON and CHARLESTON HIGH.

After graduating high school and a tour in the Navy, Woodrum returned to his hometown to continue his broadcasting career. Covering local sports events from baseball to basketball to football, he called the games for a number of sports legends from West Virginia before their names were even known. From both radio and TV appearances, Woodrum was something of a personality to sports fans in Charleston. He later went on to serve as general manager for the first edition of the Charleston Rockets professional football team. Before leaving to begin a career in advertising, he had broadcast more than 2,000 sporting events, written golf columns for local newspapers, and freelanced for five radio stations.

Woodrum now is a franchise owner of Shoney's restaurants throughout the south. He also raises and races thoroughbred horses and is the creator of WAGS-32 a cable access television channel. His sports interests continue, but focus a lot more on golf these days. Living in Myrtle Beach, SC, he plays some of the best courses in the Southeast along the famed Grand Strand stretch which is the subject of his latest book. It is also the topic of his syndicated television show "Grand Strand Golf with Tommy Woodrum." --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 232 pages
• Publisher: Pelican Pub Co Inc; 1 edition (February 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882899244
• ISBN-13: 978-0882899244
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,049,687 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Solid, thorough review of all major courses, February 28, 2000

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Jay Flemma - See all my reviews

This review is from: Golfing the Carolina Grand Strand (Hardcover)

"Grand Strand" solidly and thoroughly provides any avid golfer seeking information on all major Myrtle Beach courses with all the vital information they need to begin planning an enjoyable trip to what has colorfully been referred to as "the reddest of golf's red light districts.

With course access and contact information and informative playing tips, all levels of golfer can plan the most important aspects of their trip...the finances and the location of their selected courses to plan their own customized Myrtle Beach experience.

All major courses, from the old venerable standbys like the Dunes Club, Marsh Harbour and Pine Lakes International, to the hot newcomers True Blue and TPC Myrtle Beach, are painstakingly described, often times with a strategic shot-by-shot and amenity-by-amenity description. There is even a detailed map and scorecard from each of the approximately 100 courses analyzed.

While it has all the detail one need's to select the right courses for any customized trip, some treatment should be given to lodging, dining and alternative means of spending a golf widow's time. Also, the British jargon sometimes espoused by the author in his descriptions grows mildly tedious.

Nevertheless, this in depth course atlas goes a long way toward further dispelling the myth that Myrtle Beach is a raffish escape for those bargain hunters looking for a "Golfers answer to Las Vegas."