New Golf Channel show: Road Trip: Myrtle Beach

[nandoal28]

What happens when four golfers hit the open road in Myrtle Beach? Find out every Tuesday at 7:30 PM as Charlie Rymer (ESPN golf broadcaster), Perry Swenson (Futures tour player How hot is she?), Josh Kelley (singer/songwriter:recently married to Katherine Heil from Grey's Anatomy and Mark Bryan (lead guitar Hootie and the Blowfish) get their license to live it up, South Carolina-style.

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GOLF CHANNEL is bringing the ultimate Myrtle Beach golf experience to 110 million homes worldwide with the February 5th debut of Road Trip: Myrtle Beach, the first reality show to be based in the state of South Carolina. Each original episode will air Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. and will be rebroadcast during the week.


Filmed entirely along the Grand Strand, the Myrtle Beach area is the first golf destination to play host to a non-competitive reality program. Road Trip: Myrtle Beach will provide a backstage glimpse at why the Grand Strand area is known as the “Golf Capital of the World” with more “Top 100” golf courses than any other destination and three million rounds recorded on area golf courses each year.

The 12-episode series follows former PGA TOUR professional and current ESPN commentator Charlie Rymer, Hootie & the Blowfish band member Mark Bryan, musician Josh Kelley and Duramed FUTURES Tour player Perry Swensen as they enjoy an extended Myrtle Beach golf vacation. Each episode takes place at a different Grand Strand golf course and features light-hearted banter between cast members, course information and videos, game management tips and golf instruction by Rymer, the foursome’s activities after golf at area restaurants and night spots and live, original music, including the show’s theme song that was written and recorded by Bryan and Kelley. The show’s fifth recurring member, a 1962 red convertible Cadillac, is easily recognizable as it transports the foursome along the Grand Strand.

“Having Road Trip: Myrtle Beach filmed right here in Myrtle Beach is a tremendous opportunity to showcase the area as the ideal golf destination,” said Bill Golden, vice president and director of marketing at Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday. “We want to continue to grow the Myrtle Beach golf market and to accomplish this goal, we must reach out to golfers around the world and show what a golf vacation is like here by presenting the destination through the eyes of an entertaining cast in a fun and insightful way. Road Trip: Myrtle Beach is the perfect vehicle to get Myrtle Beach in front of 92 percent of the world’s golfers and the chance to present the quality of the golf, accommodations, restaurants and after-golf entertainment along the Grand Strand.”

GOLF CHANNEL will broadcast the first four episodes of Road Trip: Myrtle Beach in the United States and more than 50 countries around the world starting in February with the remaining eight shows to be broadcast in the third and fourth quarter of 2008.

“We are excited to debut Road Trip: Myrtle Beach in February,” said Jay Kossoff, GOLF CHANNEL’s managing director of original productions and executive producer. “This is a unique show that features golf, music and a very talented cast. We believe that our viewers will enjoy the humorous dialogue between the cast members and the course highlights from Myrtle Beach, the perfect destination for the show.”

Rymer has been treating golf fans to his quick wit and “down home” humor as a sports commentator for ESPN since 1998. Relying on his experiences on the PGA TOUR, Rymer uses his views on life and golf to entertain audiences all over the world. Bryan is a founding member, songwriter and the lead guitar player for the multi-platinum band, Hootie & the Blowfish. Hootie & the Blowfish has garnered enormous success over the last 10 years, earning two Grammy Awards, an MTV Music Award, Billboard Music Award and a People’s Choice Award. A native of Augusta, Georgia, Kelley was writing songs on the side as a student at the University of Mississippi when some of his work made its way to a Hollywood Records representative. Kelley signed with the label and has released two albums, with a third to debut in February 2008. A native of Charlotte, N.C., Swenson is one of the up-and-coming American female golfers on the Duramed FUTURES Tour. The 24-year-old graduated from the University of Texas where she finished second at the 2004 and 2005 Big 12 Championship.

Road Trip: Myrtle Beach, developed and executive produced by GOLF CHANNEL, is produced by Mickey Holden of the Holden Production Group. Holden has 25 years of experience providing original programming to network television. Some of his recent projects include CBS’ “Jack at Augusta,” The Food Network’s “Food Camp,” “Bragging Rights” on The Tennis Channel, “The Wandering Golfer” on Fine Living and “Tiger at 3” on CBS.

[Big_M]

GOLF CHANNEL will broadcast the first four episodes of Road Trip: Myrtle Beach in the United States and more than 50 countries around the world starting in February with the remaining eight shows to be broadcast in the third and fourth quarter of 2008.

this gap is dumb... I guess they want to make sure everyone has heard of it before the final episodes. Either that or they just want it to be an offseason type thing... reminding people to go play Myrtle in the Winter. It sounds like it could be decent though... I will watch.

[DBake]

If I remember from the commercial the chick isn't to bad. Who all is applying for the new BIG BREAK?

[EatDrinkSleepGolf]

Just watched it, they played Caledonia, great course, decent episode.

[Richie3Jack]

Can't wait to watch. I worked at Caledonia about 10 years ago, so it'll be interesting to see how the course is today.




3Jack

[Big_M]

just got home from hockey... guess I'll have to catch it at 1:30 a.m. tonight. I was hoping it would be an hour show... of course they would probably pack it with commercials then like they do big break.

one of my favorite shows was "What's in the Bag"... especially when they would show how stuff was made... they should bring this one back... or get busy filming some more.

[Ben]

Looks far too hoakey for me. I love golf , but not enough to watch these knuckleheads tool around town in some convertible playing bad music, and mediocre golf. Who's got the remote?

[AnalogAG]

I did not like it either! Looks more like promotion than anything else!

[Matt10]

Yeah, it was pretty boring. Maybe I'm just too used to watching Playing Lessons on TGC - but I didn't like that the camera didn't follow the ball flight all that much. I think it should be moved to the travel channel or fine-living, not TGC.

I could watching Playing Lessons all day though - thankfully I've recorded everyone that has been on. Need more though.

[Richie3Jack]

I agree. They needed to show the course. I worked there for a year, played there countless times and even I had a hard time figuring out what hole they were on. Would've been nicer to see them give an overview of some of the holes so the viewer can see if that's a course they may like to play or dream about playing.

Of course they did a small bit on the Fish Chowder which smells horrible and doesn't have much to do with golf. I think there's a golf show out there similar to this, but with people that are much more entertaining to watch play.




3Jack