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Fourth Annual Chris Wilcox Charity Golf Outing

Posted on July 19, 2012 by | Leave a comment

 

 

 

Chris Wilcox, of the NBA Boston Celtics is teaming up with the Myrtle Beach National Golf Club on Friday, August 3, for the Fourth Annual Chris Wilcox Charity Golf Outing benefiting the Lupus Foundation of America.

Wilcox grew up in Whiteville, North Carolina and has witnessed first-hand the devastation caused by lupus. Two of his aunts passed away from complications with the disease and his older sister Tehesia currently suffers from it.

Lupus is a debilitating disease that hampers and attacks the immune system.  It affects more than 1.5 million Americans and over 5 million people worldwide; approximately nine of every ten cases of lupus affect females of child-bearing age. There is no cure or known cause.

The Power Forward to Cure Lupus Golf Outing welcomes individual golfers to register for $100. Foursomes can register for $300.

Registration starts at 8:00 a.m.  Shotgun Scramble begins at 10:00 a.m. at  Myrtle Beach National Golf Club, 4900 National Drive Myrtle Beach, SC 29579.

 Chris Wilcox is well known from his career with the NBA Boston Celtics and 2002 University of Maryland National Champions.   Wilcox’s 2012 NBA season was cut short when he had heart surgery to repair an enlarged aorta.  He was just cleared by doctors to resume training and hopes to return for the 2012-2013 season.

 For more information, please visit www.chriswilcox.com or www.lupus.org

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Lowcountry in your Pocket

Posted on April 1, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The South Carolina Lowcountry is in your phone.  Things to see and do throughout Beaufort County are covered in our app Hilton Head Essentials, published by Sutro Media this month. It’s available for download from the iTunes app store for iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch devices.

More than 800 images with 130 items showcase the coastal area.

It includes a Google map for each entry; one-touch phone calling to each business; one-touch access to the individual website; immediate access to selected YouTube or user reviews; relevant hours and pricing information. Categories include where to stay, where to eat, shopping, attractions, selected upcoming events plus a bit of history and local culture throughout Hilton Head, Bluffton, Beaufort and the neighboring rural areas and towns.

Authors Liz and Charlie Mitchell, long-time South Carolina coastal residents, created the app in partnership with Sutro Media. Their first app Myrtle Beach’s Best was launched in December with a new version published in January.

Updates of Hilton Head Essentials are planned for additional golf and event coverage. Local businesses are invited to follow the authors on Twitter or the Hilton Head Essentials Facebook page or contact the authors via their website.  Event schedules and updated information may be considered for inclusion in future versions. Businesses do not pay to be listed, and the authors base choices on personal experiences and availability of quality content.

The Mitchells also co-authored two travel books published by Channel Lake in the 2010 Tourist Town series. The books available from major booksellers and from Amazon are Hilton Head: A Guide to the South Carolina Lowcountry and Myrtle Beach: A Guide to South Carolina’s Grand Strand. Both books are sold at Sunset River Marketplace in Calabash where the authors appear for periodic special events.

The Hilton Head guidebook also is available in Beaufort at Cuthbert House Inn and at the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce and in Bluffton at Rose Hill Mansion.

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Introducing Myrtle Beach’s Best

Posted on December 4, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Our new travel app Myrtle Beach’s Best is now available for download via iTunes for iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. It’s $1.99 with free updates forever. As you might expect, it’s written in our two strong and opinionated voices. You wouldn’t want any less than honest reviews and opinions of locals when planning your trip, right?

It includes more than 130 insightful entries, richly visual slide shows with 1120 views and a Google map for each entry; one-touch phone calling to that business; one-touch access to the establishment website; relevant hours and pricing information and immediate access to some YouTube or user reviews. You can add your own comments too.

These categories are offered: Attractions, Beaches, Best Dinners, Day Trips, Easy Lunches, Entertainment, Festivals, Golf, Shopping and Top Hotels. 

An alphabetical listing of everything is shown, and it can be sorted by city, by distance from wherever you are, by price or by category:

The introduction to the golf listings offers a slide show of some beautiful Myrtle Beach National courses:

Sutro Media is a new kind of app publishing company, one that bridges the gap between traditional print media and new media outlets. It’s amassing the world’s largest collection of indie travel writing voices to create new products on the exciting and versatile mobile platform.

If you travel, you will find it easy and fun to explore the world using a mobile phone.  You may be standing on a street corner surfing for a reliable restaurant or lying on the couch planning a tour, and the app will lead you by the hand. No need for a phone book, a map or even the Internet to find where to shop, dine or play in Myrtle Beach when you have the app on your mobile device.

Sutro Media currently has more than 60 apps for sale on iTunes and another 175 in the pipeline.

Let us know what you think.

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Sandpiper Named Golf Course of the Year

Posted on July 30, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Sandpiper Bay Golf and Country Club is a fun 27-hole facility located in Sunset Beach, NC. It  recently was named the Golf Course of the Year by the Myrtle Beach Area Golf Course Owners Association.

The Don Maples-designed course has gone through a three- year-long upgrade that includes the installation of Miniverde Bermuda grass on all three of the 9 hole layouts: The Bay, The Piper and The Sand. Also included in the renewal of the facility are the repaving of the cart paths, some tree removal, and the refurbishing of the clubhouse.

Sandpiper was not mentioned in the golf section of our book Myrtle Beach: A Guide to South Carolina’s Grand Strand published by Channel Lake in the 2010 Tourist Town® series. Limited space and the broad subject matter of the guidebook led us to review fewer than the total number of courses in the Myrtle Beach area.

Sandpiper is certainly a fine choice for a golfer on the north end of the beach area. Your comments are welcome here. We’ll be happy to see what you think about the course.

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