Out of the Rough: ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic (2026)

Nate (@NateOoTR)
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With the Tour’s best taking to Quail Hollow for this week’s Truist Championship, the ‘golf capital of the world’ will host an alternate-field event this week.

For the third time, the PGA Tour will visit Myrtle Beach, with 2024 being the first installment.

If you’ve ever vacationed in Myrtle Beach, there’s a large chance yourself or someone coming with you packed their golf clubs in hopes of playing one of the hundreds of golf courses that litter the area.

The Dunes Golf & Beach Club will play host for this week’s ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic for the third consecutive season.

The ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic serves as the second-of-four alternate-field events on the PGA Tour schedule for this season.

Despite being an alternate-field event, the field is still filled with talent as the Truist Championship features a limited field.

The Field

The ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic will likely steal some views away from the Truist Championship this week simply because Brooks Koepka headlines the field.

Koepka is continuing his fight back onto the PGA Tour following his divorce with LIV Golf Tour.

Along with Koepka, notable attendees this week in South Carolina include Nicolai Hojgaard, Marco Penge, Aaron Rai, Pierceson Coody, Sami Valimaki, Rasmus Hojgaard, Jordan Smith and Johnny Keefer.

Chris Gotterup won the inaugural playing of this event in 2024 and Ryan Fox claimed victory here a season ago. Neither will be back this week as they’ll be teeing it up at the Truist championship.

The Course

The Dunes Golf & Beach Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina plays host this week.

It plays as a par-71 at 7,347 yards and annually ranks highly in Golf World’s Top 100 Courses in the USA.

It is one of Robert Trent Jones Sr.’s earliest designs and was opened in 1948.

Although appearing on the PGA Tour for the first time two seasons ago, the course has hosted many high-end golf tournaments including the Charles Schwab Cup Championship on the Champions Tour between 1994 and 1999 and the USGA Women's Open in 1962.

The Dunes & Beach Club is best known for this three-hole stretch nicknamed “Alligator Alley” which includes holes 11, 12 and 13.

In that stretch of holes is the course’s most famous hole, the 590-yard par-five 13th named “Boomerang.” Just as the name suggests, the hole sweeps right around Dunes Lake.

The course underwent extensive renovations over the last 20 years spearheaded by Trent Jones’ youngest son, Rees Jones.

In those renovations there was refinement of some green sites, addition of fairway bunkers, course lengthening, a new irrigation system and practice tee enhancement.

The biggest change came as the greens were converted to Champion ultradrawf bermudagrass to better perform in warm weather.

The greens were also expanded to an average size of 6,000 square feet.

Extensive drainage work was also performed and due to that, combined with the fact that the venue sits on a naturally sandy site, the course is expected to play very firm.

The fairways featured this week are also rather narrow, averaging 20-to-25 yards across and are heavily tree-lined.

The rough consists of a two-inch overseeded ryegrass that adds to the importance of finding the fairways.

Holding the greens firing out of the rough, along with the expected firm and fast conditions, will be extremely difficult.

As many as 16-of-the-18 greens are also bunkered on the left and the right. The other two holes are only bunkered on the front right.

The Weather

As of the time of writing this, Thursday is calling for a 35-percent of isolated thunderstorms in the morning. Friday currently calls for a 15-percent chance of precipitation as Saturday calls for a 20-percent chance and Sunday a 15-percent chance. Winds will be the highest on Thursday at 17 miles-per-hour. Winds are set for ten miles-per-hour on Friday and 11 miles-per-hour across the weekend. Temperatures will begin the week at 78-degrees on Thursday before falling to 70-degrees on Friday. Temperatures will rebound to 75-degrees across both days of the weekend.

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