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Myrtle Beach National And Patricia Resorts To Host 24th Annual National Retired Military Golf Classic
02/08/2007
February 8, 2007, Myrtle Beach, S.C. – Myrtle Beach National and Patricia Resorts will host the 24th Annual National Retired Military Golf Classic, May 29 through June 2, 2007. The men’s competition will be held at the three Myrtle Beach National courses and The Long Bay Club, while the women’s competition will be conducted at Aberdeen Country Club. Starting times and courses will be announced at the registration to be held at Myrtle Beach National on May 29.
The men’s tournament will consist of 72 holes while the women will utilize a 54-hole competition with the courses and foursomes rotated each day. The registration fee runs $255 for men and $210 for women and includes the rounds of golf, cart fees, awards, special drawings, a Classic golf shirt, a man’s hat or a women’s visor. Also included are tickets to the Tuesday evening cocktail reception at Bay Watch Resort and a Wednesday night show at the Alabama Theater. Only 880 men and 128 women will be accepted with 2006 participants receiving priority registration.
Team and individual prizes will be awarded and include golf clubs, Bose radios, Seiko watches, U Neek Putters, Canon cameras, gift certificates and golf vacations for two. A closest-to-the-pin contest will be held each day and golfers can win a Chrysler car with a hole-in-one. More than $160,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded.
The National Retired Military Golf Classic will again contribute $5,000 to the Fisher House Foundation, a national not-for-profit organization that provides housing for military family members while their loved ones are hospitalized for illness, disease or injury. The Fisher House Foundation has served more than 8,500 families and has made available more than two million days of lodging to family members since the program originated in 1990. The Classic has donated over $35,000 to the Fisher House in recent years.
“This is the largest military golf tournament in the world and we are completely comprised of members of the military forces and their spouses,” said General John B. Blount, chairman of the National Retired Military Classic. “Many of our golfers plan their vacation around the tournament and we have quite a few that have participated every year since the inaugural 1983 event. No doubt that the camaraderie is a motivating factor but it’s also a serious competition.”
For more information on the tournament and Patricia Resorts, call 1-866-469-7853 or visit www.patricia.com/NRMGC.htm.
About The Myrtle Beach National Company
The Myrtle Beach National Company has evolved into one of the leading golf course ownership and management operations in the Southeast, featuring many of the most well-respected signature courses along the Grand Strand. The company formed in 1971 with the construction of the Arnold Palmer-designed original 54-hole golf complex, which includes the West Course, Southcreek (both designed by Francis Duane and Arnold Palmer) and King’s North, also an Arnold Palmer design that has achieved national notoriety. Myrtle Beach National has grown to include the Robert Trent Jones designed Waterway Hills, Jack Nicklaus’ Long Bay, Tom Jackson’s River Club and Aberdeen Country Club, Dan Maple’s Willbrook Plantation and Willard Byrd’s Litchfield Country Club, all premier Myrtle Beach area signature courses.
Myrtle Beach National has hosted tournaments for men, women, senior or junior golfers for more than 35 years to help grow the game of golf. Every November, Myrtle Beach National-sponsored George Holliday Memorial Tournament, recently named one of the top-ranked junior tournaments by the Heritage Classic Foundation, draws more than 500 prep golfers to the Grand Strand. During the spring, Myrtle Beach National welcomes more than 500 junior golfers to the area during Easter weekend for the Myrtle Beach Junior Golf Tournament. In the fall, Myrtle Beach National welcomes women golfers and couples to the Grand Strand for the Girls Love to Golf Clinic and The Carolina Couples Classic. For more information, visit www.MBN.com or call 1-800-882-2614.
