Country Club of South Carolina

The Country Club of South Carolina is located in the north-central part of the state, and architect Ellis Maples used the region’s forests and creeks to create a course that emulates those of North of Carolina, just a short while north. Where the courses of the sandhills are known for their wide, sandy waste areas, Maples created the impression with a battery of bunkers.

The course is a story of two nines, with the opening half beginning with a loop around the Polk Swamp before carrying along into a residential development. The north half of the course remains the undisturbed terrain that Maples found when he first visited the property during the late ‘60s. This half wanders through the woods, traversing native wetland and occasionally requiring a forced carry of Black Creek.

The course plays just over 7,000 yards from the tips, and it may seem like the bulk of that challenge comes during the final hole. The 460-yard hole makes a hard dogleg left around a lagoon, to a green well-defended by large bunkers. This No. 1 handicap hole will test the mettle during competition.