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MyrtleBeach @ THE NO.1 GOLF DESTINATION IN THE WORLD — AND MUCH MORE! As Good As it Gets Wonder Women Didya Hear ... At the World Am The Granddaddy Has a Ghost Dustin Johnson’s Favorite Places Made for Kids: Why Youth Sports Every Course, Are Big Business Every Concierge Beach Beat: The Grand Strand’s Best Eats, Brilliant Future Best Music MyrtleBeach @ THE NO.1 GOLF DESTINATION IN THE WORLD — AND MUCH MORE! AS GOOD AS IT GETS! Wonder Women Didya Hear ... At the World Am The Granddaddy Has a Ghost Dustin Johnson’s Favorite Places Made for Kids: Why Youth Sports Every Course, Are Big Business Every Concierge Beach Beat: The Grand Strand’s Best Eats, Brilliant Future Best Music GRANDSLet the Games HEADER Begin! MYRTLE BEACH’S REPUTATION AS THE FOODIEST, FRIENDLIEST SOUTHEAST IS NOW OFFICIALLY OVERDRIVE THE ADDITION OF THE NEWEST BISTRO Photograph by NAMEGOES HERE From surf (60 miles of awesome beaches) To turf (a hundred great golf courses) The Grand Strand is all about fun choices The iconic Skywheel is always the center of attention in downtown Myrtle Beach. Running Look Who’s Back! A NEW AND IMPROVED DUSTIN JOHNSON PROVES HE’S FULLY RECOVERED FROM HIS FAMOUS SLIP IN AUGUSTA by ALAN SHIPNUCK THERE IS NO BETTER metaphor for Dustin the Masters and the rest of the summer was a bust, too, as he Johnson than slipping on the stairs. For all was a non-factor all three majors. It was impossible not to won- of his victories – 16 and counting on the PGA der if those stumbles would turn into another crisis? Tour – the career of the lanky 33 year-old has “Oh, I’m not going anywhere,” Johnson told me in his laconic been defined by pratfalls. There was the lost drawl, which betrays his upbrining in South Carolina. “I’m just ball during a final round 82 to blow a three- getting started.” shot lead the 2010 U.S. Open; the 72nd hole This bedrock confidence is not as obvious as Johnson’s mani- penalty for grounding his club in an ill-de- fold physical gifts, but the self-belief is the key to understanding fined bunker at the 2010 PGA Championship, who he is as a golfer. “There’s never been a shot Dustin doesn’t costing him a spot in a playoff; the wicked think he can pull off,” says his brother/caddie Austin. “And he’s slice out-of-bounds down the stretch at the kind of right, because the harder the shot the more he concen- 2011 Open Championship, which allowed trates and so it usually works out, even if it’s not exactly the Darren Clarke to cruise to victory. More se- right play.” riously, there was the fall from grace that came with his six- Dustin’s jock swagger comes from a lifetime of success on var- month “leave of absence” to address “personal challenges” that ious playing fields. Growing up outside of Columbia, he was an followed the revelations on golf.com that Johnson had failed All-Star pitcher in Little League baseball and a standout youth three drug tests, for marijuana and cocaine. In that time away basketball player, not surprising since he’s the grandson of Art from the game Johnson reinvented himself personally and pro- Whisnant, a Hall of Fame college basketball player who was Tfessionally, and he has been a dominant force since his return in drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers. “I think he is the best ath- early 2015. He overpowered Oakmont, the scariest course this lete ever to play professional golf,” Keith Sbarbaro, TaylorMade’s side of Carnoustie, to take the 2016 U.S. Open, and this winter vice president of PGA Tour operations, says of the 6’4”, 205 lb. summited the World Ranking. Johnson had won three straight Johnson. “He has almost freakish natural talent. He’s the kind tournaments heading into the 2017 Masters to establish himself of guy who can do anything. Give him a basketball, he can dunk PHOTOGRAPH BY GOES HERE as the overwhelming favorite, and then he was tripped up by it in bare feet. Give him a baseball, he can throw it 90 miles per fate’s fickle finger: padding around a rental home in socks on the hour....” Johnson’s father Scott – a high school star in basketball, eve of the tournament, baseball, football, soccer, and track & field - picks up the thread. Working on his wedges paid off he slipped on the wood- “He can bowl 200 games all night long,” he says. “Don’t shoot big time when Dustin dusted en stairs and wrenched pool for money around him, either.” Austin adds, “He can tear it Jordan Spieth in a playoff at the his back. Johnson was up on the water. On a wakeboard he can jump the wake, easily. FedEx Cup opener in August. forced to withdraw from I’ve seen him get 10 feet of air on a Jet Ski. There was a 60-foot 12 @ MYRTLEBEACH Photograph by NAMEGOES HERE @ MYRTLEBEACH 13 The Table WURST CASE SCENARIO Would you like kraut with HERRE’S HIDEAWAY BRINGS that? 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