And considering a third of first 15 local designs belonged to Hamm, well, it doesn’t take much to believe what King was saying. “ Azalea, Beachwood, Eagle Nest - those courses brought people down here year after year after year.”īefore the package deals sprawled up the East Coast and golfers from around the globe were exposed to advertising campaigns to visit Myrtle Beach, reputation and word of mouth was what was doing the trick.
| Chris King looks back on the earliest days of Myrtle Beach golf and needed no prodding to pinpoint an architect who played a vital role in the would-be popularity explosion. “In the ‘60s and ‘70s when we started to get a little bit of traction, the reality is that it was Gene Hamm’s work that people were coming down to play,” said King, a longtime contributor for Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday.
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