MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WPDE) — SPORTFIVE, the organization that facilitates and operates the Grand Strand’s annual PGA Tour event, announced Steve Mays was appointed as the new tournament director for the Myrtle Beach Classic “effective immediately,” according to a release from PGA.
This news comes as ONEflight and PGA part ways, according to Mays and Visit Myrtle Beach.
Last month, ABC 15 reported a trio of lawsuits that accused ONEflight International, the tour’s previous sponsor, of being ‘the hallmark of a Ponzi Scheme.’ These lawsuits alleged ONEflight encouraged customers to make increasingly large prepaid, nonrefundable deposits for future flight hours while the company’s liabilities for those prepaid hours exceeded its ability to deliver the flights…