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Bucki1968 Great Member

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I just returned from a trip to Myrtle Beach (before Thanksgiving). Played a couple of the Legends courses as well as Heritage Club (the best one of the bunch). Every round took about 4.5 - 5 hours. Brutal. Went with some buddies so I expected slow play, but the wife wants to go now so I'm trying to find out the best time to go and not have to play marathon golf. We will sit on the beach too (if the weather is good), I'm wondering when would be a good time. Don't care when we play (we live in Florida so playing the afternoons in the heat doesn't bother us). Any advice?

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Taylor Made R7 (x-stiff).
Taylor Made Burner 2 irons (stiff)
Cleveland Wedges (gap and 60)
Odyssey two ball putter (white) 

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klineka Super Member

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Which legends courses did you play? I am driving down there tonight after work with a buddy and we have a tee time tomorrow at Legends Heathland.

We play the Wizard on Saturday and Myrtle Beach National Kings North on Sunday.

I assumed it wouldnt be very crowded this time of year, were the long rounds due to the group of guys you were with or due to the courses being crowded? 

Driver: :callaway: Rogue Max ST LS
Woods:  :cobra: Darkspeed LS 3Wood/3Hybrid
Irons: :tmade: P770 (4-PW)
Wedges: :callaway: MD3 50   MD5 54 58 degree  
Putter: :odyssey:  White Hot RX #1
Ball: :srixon: Z Star XV

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Bucki1968 Great Member

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1 hour ago, klineka said:

Which legends courses did you play? I am driving down there tonight after work with a buddy and we have a tee time tomorrow at Legends Heathland.

We play the Wizard on Saturday and Myrtle Beach National Kings North on Sunday.

I assumed it wouldnt be very crowded this time of year, were the long rounds due to the group of guys you were with or due to the courses being crowded? 

Courses were packed. We played the Heathland and the Mooreland. Maybe because of holiday?

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Taylor Made R7 (x-stiff).
Taylor Made Burner 2 irons (stiff)
Cleveland Wedges (gap and 60)
Odyssey two ball putter (white) 

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klineka Super Member

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3 minutes ago, Bucki1968 said:

Courses were packed. We played the Heathland and the Mooreland. Maybe because of holiday?

Gotcha. Hopefully it wont be as bad this weekend for us. Any tips or advice for Heathland? How was the condition of the course? (I'm sure it will be better than what the course are up here at the moment)

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Driver: :callaway: Rogue Max ST LS
Woods:  :cobra: Darkspeed LS 3Wood/3Hybrid
Irons: :tmade: P770 (4-PW)
Wedges: :callaway: MD3 50   MD5 54 58 degree  
Putter: :odyssey:  White Hot RX #1
Ball: :srixon: Z Star XV

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Bucki1968 Great Member

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Courses were in good shape. Easy to three putt.  Greens were slick. Greens are also pretty big. Not too tight. Heathland and Mooreland (I thought) played a little longer than the yardages.

My bag:

Taylor Made R7 (x-stiff).
Taylor Made Burner 2 irons (stiff)
Cleveland Wedges (gap and 60)
Odyssey two ball putter (white) 

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RayG Great Member

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We've always traveled (in general) just before or after "peak" season in MB. Mid September to October, and late April (After any Easter holidays) into May. Never endured a 4.5-5 hr round. Summer months can be crowded, but only for the morning times. If you're willing to put up with a bit of heat, make a later time in Summer. Same with the peak seasons- You can take a chance and go out a bit later and hope to finish before sundown- courses are less crowded and there can be price breaks. 

We've also gone when there are those big festival weeks (couple of Biker weeks, Grad week, etc...), and had NO issues with long rounds. Bikers fill up the downtown rooms leaving less space for golfers- courses are less crowded. However, the trade off can be traffic getting to and from courses. If you are north, avoid the southern courses and vice-versa. The bypasses and stuff helped getting to the courses along the 501 corridor, but the the area around the speedway can be a zoo during biker weeks.

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If you live in FL and dont need a beach for a golf vacation I cannot recommend Reynolds Plantation enough. On Lake Oconnee in Greensboro GA. 126 holes of immaculate courses and a Ritz Carlton to boot.

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On ‎12‎/‎7‎/‎2017 at 10:38 PM, upndown21 said:

If you live in FL and dont need a beach for a golf vacation I cannot recommend Reynolds Plantation enough. On Lake Oconnee in Greensboro GA. 126 holes of immaculate courses and a Ritz Carlton to boot.

Thanks for the tip. We are looking into a trip to Reynolds Plantation. We'll sit by the lake instead of the Ocean.

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Taylor Made R7 (x-stiff).
Taylor Made Burner 2 irons (stiff)
Cleveland Wedges (gap and 60)
Odyssey two ball putter (white) 

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On 12/15/2017 at 8:16 AM, Bucki1968 said:

Thanks for the tip. We are looking into a trip to Reynolds Plantation. We'll sit by the lake instead of the Ocean.

Cuscowilla is an awesome Coore/Crenshaw course down there but not part of Reynolds. It's private but we'll worth the attempt to play too. 

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Ughh, I once played a Sunday afternoon round at Caledonia. We teed off at 1:00 pm and were barely past 13 when the sun was setting at around 7:30.  Apparently there was some sort of outing in the morning and a bunch of nubes were slowing everybody down.  Also had some dimwit from NYC behind us screaming at us to hit our shots long before the group in front of us was clear.  It was AWFUL.   

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