The golf course plays anywhere from 7,100 yards from the tips down to 5,300 from the ladies tees. "I'd rate it in the top 10 percent of the courses we've played down here," he said. He says in time it could return to the status it had back in 2002, when it was named South Carolina's golf course of the year and received Golf Digest's top places to play recognition. It has a foundation that makes Van Hoogen drool. But the Avocet Course is about much more than simply the destination points. Wild Wing will adjust rounds during the summer of 2011 to keep the course open while it upgrades those greens. They don't even care how they roll they just want them to look perfect." People just want 100 percent perfectly green greens. "We were getting in the beginning of the season. "Myrtle Beach, someone hears something one place, and the image gets worse and worse as it goes along. "It's a combination of things," Wild Wing Director of Operations Tom Van Hoogen said. Negative comments continued to circulate via word of mouth and Internet reviews. It started as a problem most courses struggle with: patches of simpler Bermuda grass creeping onto the greens during the past two summers. It has taken away from the overall playability of what less than a decade ago was a course that was named one of the best the Palmetto State had to offer. Those involved with the game from around Myrtle Beach have helped start and then inflate the rumor mill regarding the greens at Wild Wing. The Bartos aren't the only ones who have heard that. Jackie said the greens "were much better than what we anticipated, given what people had said." "They were much better than we expected," said Kurt, an 8 handicap. The couple was told that not only should they expect some of the worst greens in the area, but they should even work with the booking agency they used to switch to another course. Take the warning Kurt and Jackie Barto heard during one of their first rounds of golf in Myrtle Beach while on a week-long vacation from Columbus, Ohio. And that's even before the next big renovation. If nothing else about the Avocet Course at Wild Wing Golf Plantation just outside of Myrtle Beach stands out, it's that the rumors flying about the course's playability are grossly miscalculated.
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