For the first time in 12 years, the Mayor’s Cup amateur golf tournament will not be played.
Myrtle Beach Mayor John Rhodes came up with the idea in his first year in office, as Myrtle Beach didn’t have an event that could be considered a city amateur championship.
It has been held every year beginning in 2006 at the city-owned Whispering Pines Golf Club, and other Myrtle Beach courses Pine Lakes Country Club and the Grande Dunes Resort Course were added to create a three-course rotation last year.
“We owned the golf course and I wanted it to be like a city championship,” Rhodes said.