{"id":987,"date":"2011-11-08T12:52:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T17:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2022-10-05T13:18:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:18:50","slug":"myrtle-beach-golf-marathon-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/2011\/11\/myrtle-beach-golf-marathon-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Myrtle Beach Golf: Marathon Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-990\" title=\"waterway-hills-golf-course\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/waterway-hills-golf-course.jpg\" alt=\"Waterway Hills Golf Course - Myrtle Beach, SC\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/waterway-hills-golf-course.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/waterway-hills-golf-course-330x209.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How does playing 11 rounds of golf in 11 hours sound to you? That&#8217;s exactly what Mark Chapman intends on doing on Veteran&#8217;s Day &#8211; November 11th, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The man behind the <strong>Myrtle Beach golf marathon<\/strong> is&nbsp;Mr. Chapman, a 42 year-old student at The Golf&nbsp;Academy&nbsp;of America &#8211; Myrtle Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Mark is no stranger to a challenge,&nbsp;being a 21-year veteran of the Air Force and has also served in operation Iraqi Freedom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unsurprisingly, his efforts are all for a good cause: raising money to benefit the&nbsp;Salute Military Golf Association and the Wounded Warrior Project<\/strong>.&nbsp;Mark&#8217;s journey will take place at Waterway&nbsp;Hills Golf Club in Myrtle Beach. Beginning at 6:43 a.m, he will attempt to complete 11 rounds of golf by 5:16 p.m. That&#8217;s an astonishing&nbsp;198 holes at a mind-blowing pace of 58 minutes per round!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Waterway Hills Golf Club\" href=\"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/golf-courses\/waterway-hills.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waterway Hills Golf Club<\/a> is a &nbsp;27-hole golf course in Myrtle Beach, designed by the legendary <a title=\"Information about Robert Trent Jones\" href=\"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/course-architects\/robert-trent-jones.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Trent Jones<\/a>, and boasts 3 separate 9-hole layouts: Oaks, Lakes and the Ravine.<\/p>\n<p>However, Chapman intends on playing all 11 rounds on the Oaks Nine course. He&#8217;ll have to play it a whopping 22 times to accomplish his goal.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>For those of you reading this who would like to support Mark on his Myrtle Beach golf marathon, we&#8217;ve outlined the proper ways to do below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Donations can be dropped off at<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Golf&nbsp;Academy&nbsp;of America (GAA)<br \/>\n<\/strong>3268 Wacamaw Blvd.<br \/>\nMyrtle Beach, SC 29579<br \/>\n(843) 236-0481<br \/>\nToll Free: (800) 342-7342<\/p>\n<p><strong>Waterway Hills Golf Club<br \/>\n<\/strong>9731 N. King&#8217;s Highway<br \/>\nMyrtle Beach, SC 29577<br \/>\n(843) 449-6488<\/p>\n<p><em>Or alternatively, donations can be made online at:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Salute Military Golf Association&#8217;s website &#8211; <a title=\"Salute Military Golf Association\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smga.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.smga.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wounded Warrior Project&#8217;s website &#8211; <a title=\"Wounded Warrior Project\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woundedwarriorproject.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.woundedwarriorproject.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myrtle Beach man gears up to play an astonishing 11 rounds of golf within 11 hours at Waterway Hills Golf Club. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northmyrtlebeachgolf.com\/thegolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}