Amazon Pick of the Week: South Carolina Golf

For nearly three hundred years, South Carolina has played a vital role in American golf. The first golf clubs in America came from Scotland to Charleston in 1739. Myrtle Beach is sometimes called the "Golf Capital of the World," with more than eighty golf courses.

The Country Club of Charleston produced World Golf Hall of Fame members Henry Picard and Beth Daniel. The 1991 Ryder Cup matches, the "War by the Shore," took place at Kiawah Island's Ocean Course, also the site of the 2012 and 2021 PGA Championships. Hilton Head's Harbour Town Golf Links has hosted the PGA Tour's RBC Heritage for more than fifty years. Bob Gillespie and Tommy Braswell detail the history of the game in the Palmetto State.

This is 200 pages and 19 chapters covering the Heritage, the Charleston origins of golf in America, the 1991 Ryder Cup and 2012 PGA at Kiawah's Ocean Course, plus chapters on Hootie Johnson, Jay and Bill Haas, the state's oldest course (Palmetto Golf Club) and other Aiken treasures, the Grand Strand's golf history, the state's top TV personalities at the Golf Channel.

Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/South-Carolina-Golf-Sports-Gillespie/dp/1467145491/ref=sr_1_2?crid=PW0G3BH9C0VF&dchild=1&keywords=south+carolina+golf+book&qid=1615133175&sprefix=South+Carolina+Golf%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-2

200 Year Rain Event in South Carolina

About 22 million Americans across the East Coast were under flood watches Saturday as a "once in 200 years rainfall event" started soaking the Carolinas — with the worst yet to come.

As much as a foot of rain fell overnight in Wilmington, North Carolina, and numerous water rescues were reported.

"Our goal constantly is to be overprepared and underwhelmed," North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory told reporters Saturday morning.

South Carolina could get more rain in three days than it normally does during the entire fall, The Associated Press reported. Saturday was the third consecutive day of the relentless onslaught of rain, with a plume of precipitation expected to last through the weekend and only start to let up on Monday.

Officials on Saturday reported 17,000 power outages across North Carolina.

Georgia and South Carolina Rattled By Earthquake

Yes, we do get earthquakes here in Georgia.