Charlie Rymer’s new show: Interviewing celebrities in golf carts in Myrtle Beach
Former Golf Channel personality Charlie Rymer is putting his gift of gab to work for the Myrtle Beach golf market.
Golf Tourism Solutions, the marketing and technology agency that promotes the market, has launched “Ridin’ With Rymer,” a new online show featuring Rymer interviewing celebrities in a golf cart while playing holes on Grand Strand courses.
The show debuted Wednesday and the first episode features former Tiger Woods swing coach Hank Haney at Pawleys Plantation. The 12-episode series is airing at www.ridinwithrymer.com and new episodes will be released every Wednesday through March 25, leading into Myrtle Beach’s busy spring golf season.
The series was filmed this past summer and early fall. Each fast-paced episode is between 6-10 minutes long, with Rymer’s entertaining down-home personality driving the generally lighthearted show.
The first four episodes airing Jan. 8, 15, 22 and 29 feature Haney, Golf Channel’s Damon Hack, model, Internet sensation and Myrtle Beach Golf representative Paige Spiranac, and “The Voice” winner Javier Colon.
“They were a lot of fun to shoot. We had a lot of really cool guys and girls in it,” Rymer said. “I enjoy talking to people and we might have been talking about golf, we might have been talking about life, we might have been talking about music.”
Founders Group International, which operates 21 Grand Strand courses, partnered with Golf Tourism Solutions (GTS) on the show so it is filmed on its courses and is aired on its golf package website, MyrtleBeachGolfTrips.com, as well as GTS’ PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com and Play Golf Myrtle Beach YouTube channel.
Courses include TPC Myrtle Beach, King’s North at Myrtle Beach National, the Grande Dunes Resort Course and Pine Lakes Country Club.
Other interview subjects include two-time major champion John Daly and Hootie & the Blowfish guitarist Mark Bryan.
Rymer was particularly pleased with his interview with Daly, who slept in his RV in the TPC Myrtle Beach parking lot the night before the morning shoot, and believes his episode featuring 14-time Grammy Award-winning musician Dan Tyminski will be a sleeper.
“What I wanted to do was make sure we weren’t overtly trying to do something that’s about tourism,” Rymer said. “The idea was let’s get an interesting person, let’s go to a beautiful place, and what we’d try to do is use graphics to really explain where we were.
“For me it’s just about showing an interesting person having some good conversation, having some fun. You might learn something, you might get a laugh, showing them in a beautiful place doing that. I feel really good we were able to accomplish that.”
Rymer, a Fort Mill native and former PGA Tour player, ended an 11-year career as one of Golf Channel’s better known personalities late in 2018 and moved early last year to Murrells Inlet, and he has a five-year contract with GTS to represent the Grand Strand as a brand ambassador.
“My job is to get people to Myrtle Beach,” Rymer said. “As I’ve lived here now, basically that for me is just sort of sharing the passion I have for it.”
In addition to his work for Myrtle Beach, Rymer, 52, has about nine golf events scheduled this year as a TV or radio analyst, and he may play sparingly on the Champions Tour. “I find I put more money in my back pocket talking than actually doing,” Rymer joked.
This story was originally published January 9, 2020 at 11:43 AM.
