South Carolina

South Carolina, United States

According to Pete Dye, "There’s no other golf course in the Northern Hemisphere that has as many seaside holes" as the Ocean course at Kiawah Island.

South Carolina, USA

Old Barnwell is inspired. The golf club itself breaks with traditional norms of what is expected from a world-class private club and is as unique as the course itself. One feels similar to Old Barnwell as we have come to feel about Sand Hills in Nebraska - it's too early to know what it will become in golf course architecture lore but it's fair to say it is already one of the finest golf courses in the USA, newly built or from the Golden Age.

South Carolina, United States

Seth Raynor designed Yeamans Hall in South Carolina in 1925. It has been called "a time capsule in Charleston" in appreciation of it embodying all that is good in traditional golf course design...

South Carolina, USA

Years in the making, PGA Tour Pro Zac Blair’s love of golf courses and golf architecture has inspired his mission to build a course and create a club where he can bring his friends and members together to simply have a great time.

South Carolina, United States

Developed by two men who already own high-end private golf clubs, the philanthropic golf facility at Congaree Golf Club is probably unlike any you’ve come across before.

South Carolina, United States

The Palmetto Golf Club is a monument from the dawn of US golf and the club can reasonably claim to have the country’s second oldest golf course.

South Carolina, United States

Harbour Town Golf Links is the best of the three courses at the Sea Pines Resort and it was created by Pete and Alice Dye and Jack Nicklaus.

South Carolina, United States

Opened in 2001 and designed by Tom Fazio, Sage Valley Golf Club is extra special and it’s set to become a Top 100 high flyer.

South Carolina, United States

Designed by Pete and Alice Dye, the Long Cove Club opened in 1981 with rolling, tree lined fairways, challenging greens and water featuring prominently in the golf course design.

South Carolina, USA

A private members club in South Carolina that has philanthropy at its core. Sitting on the site of the former Sunset Country Club, Quixote Club has already cemented itself as one of the best courses in South Carolina.

South Carolina, United States

Featuring tees and fairways sown with a new type of paspalum grass that’s tolerant to heat and salt, the course at May River Golf Club is a Jack Nicklaus design which lies at Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton.

South Carolina, United States

Situated on Gibbes Island in the heart of the South Carolina Low Country, Secession Golf Club sits in perfect isolation among the tidal inlets with no housing on or around the property...

South Carolina, United States

Mike Strantz fashioned some seriously spectacular elevation changes when he shifted more than two million cubic yards of earth during construction of the course at Bulls Bay Golf Club.

South Carolina, United States

There are two courses at the Kiawah Island Club and the Cassique was the first North American architectural ensemble of five-time British Open champion Tom Watson...

South Carolina, United States

Remnants of the past are dotted around Caledonia Golf & Fish Club – an old fish shed here, foundations and chimneys of old houses there...

South Carolina, United States

Situated between Kiawah River and Bass Pond, six of the River course holes at the private Kiawah Island Club play along the water’s edge with the remaining fairways routed around woodland, lakes and marshes.

South Carolina, United States

Designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, the golf course at Chechessee Creek Club sits amidst towering oaks and pines to the north of Callawassie Island.

South Carolina, United States

More than half the holes on the Chanticleer course at Greenville Country Club provide for inviting drives from elevated tees.

South Carolina, United States

A classic old Seth Raynor course from 1921, the fairways at the Country Club of Charleston are laid out amongst the marshland of Ashley River.

South Carolina, United States

Isolated from the many other courses laid out along the South Carolina coast, the Arnold Palmer-designed Old Tabby Links course lies at the centre of an exclusive residential complex...

South Carolina, United States

The Pete Dye course at the Colleton River Plantation Club appeared six years after the Nicklaus layout debuted at the same location.

South Carolina, United States

Although located barely more than a block from the beach and with most holes subject to strong ocean breezes, the style of the Dunes is not seaside or links...

South Carolina, United States

South Carolina resort golf is not on offer here at Musgrove Mill and the club makes no apologies for its difficulty.

South Carolina, United States

A scenic Tom Fazio design, the Keowee Vineyards course at the Cliffs at Keowee Vineyards community is routed around Lake Keowee with three of the holes on each nine set out along the water’s edge.

South Carolina, United States

The Aiken Golf Club dates back to 1912, when an 11-hole course was developed as an amenity for the Highland Park Hotel. Operated as a municipal facility during the 1940s and 1950s, the course was rebuilt and renamed during the late 1990s.

South Carolina, United States

Rees Jones set out the golf course at the Haig Point Club in 1987, returning to renovate the layout twenty years later.

South Carolina, United States

It’s said that members favour afternoon play on the Nicklaus signature course at Colleton River Plantation because, if they time it right, their final putt will meet the setting sun over the Colleton River.

South Carolina, United States

The Cliffs at Mountain Park is a Gary Player design, with fourteen fairways routed alongside the North Saluda River. There’s also an exciting 4-hole finish – called “The Joust”...

South Carolina, United States

Briar’s Creek Golf Club is situated on St.John’s Island, South Carolina and was opened in 2002 as a private club.

South Carolina, United States

Occupying a gently rolling, wooded property to the north of Hilton Head Island, the 18-hole golf course at Cherokee Plantation was Donald Steel’s first design in the United States.

South Carolina, United States

The Reserve at Lake Keowee is a massive 3,900-acre residential development that features this strategic and challenging Jack Nicklaus golf course as one of its main leisure activities.

South Carolina, United States

The fairways at True Blue Golf Club, one of architect Mike Strantz’s earliest designs, wind their way around an old indigo and rice plantation.

South Carolina, United States

The Wachesaw Plantation Club’s course lies within a forested property where many of the fairways are bordered by low-density housing. The par five 18th - which sits on a bluff overlooking Murrell’s Inlet - concludes a round here in some style.

South Carolina, United States

The West course at Belfair Golf Club is the older - and tougher - of two Tom Fazio layouts in a large forested property that lies along the inlets and wetlands of the Colleton River.

South Carolina, United States

The course at Tidewater Golf Club and Plantation is a highly regarded 18-hole layout that’s won many admirers since it opened in 1990.

South Carolina, United States

Tom Fazio’s East course at Belfair Golf Club appeared in 1999, three years after his West course debuted at the same Bluffton location, and both layouts comprise a formidable challenge at this 36-hole facility.

South Carolina, United States

The Wild Dunes Resort offers a couple of 18-hole Fazio courses for public play. It’s generally accepted that the Links (six years older than the Harbor layout) is the better of the two tracks at this popular 36-hole complex.

South Carolina, United States

Featuring the crystal clear waters of Falls Creek, which flows through the layout, the Cliffs at Keowee Falls is a Jack Nicklaus Signature design that first opened for play in 2007.

South Carolina, United States

Unusually configured in three loops of six holes, the Cliffs at Keowee Springs golf course is a Tom Fazio design extending to 7,100 yards from the back tees.

South Carolina, United States

A new millennium design from Tom Fazio, the Beresford Creek course at Daniel Island Club shares a clubhouse with the more recently constructed Rees Jones-designed Ralston Creek.

South Carolina, United States

Occupying a lovely spot on the South Carolina coast between the Waccamaw River and the Atlantic Ocean, the golf course at DeBordieu Club has hosted many regional events since it opened in 1987...

South Carolina, United States

The very scenic Cliffs at Glassy golf course is a tough Tom Jackson-designed layout featuring some massive tee carries and tight-angled doglegs on fairways that sit on top of a 3,000-foot high mountain.

South Carolina, United States

Opened in 2017, the Atlantic Dunes course at the Sea Pines Resort is a Davis Love III total remodel of the resort’s George Cobb-designed Ocean course, which was the first layout built on Hilton Head in 1961.

South Carolina, United States

The Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole layout at TPC Myrtle Beach is one of 38 courses operating at thirty private and public golf facilities within a Tournament Players Club network

South Carolina, United States

The layout at Arcadian Shores Golf Club was the first solo project that Rees Jones undertook when he flew the nest from his father’s design company so it’s something of a sentimental favourite with the esteemed architect.

South Carolina, United States

Designed by Clyde Johnston, Old South Golf LInks has several spectacular holes located on the intra-coastal waterway and it features all the exciting qualities that golf on Hilton Head is known for: island greens, towering live oaks and an abundance of wildlife.

South Carolina, United States

Formed in 1903, Camden Country Club secured the services of Donald Ross in the late 1920s to transform its 18-hole layout into one of the Palmetto State’s most challenging courses.

South Carolina, United States

Designed by Greg Norman, the Reserve at Pawleys Island is just one of five private courses that discerning golfers will find on the McConnell Golf Trail.

South Carolina, United States

With holes set out on a bluff overlooking the Intercoastal Waterway, the Grande Dunes Resort Club course had greens converted to Bermuda grass in 2012.

South Carolina, United States

Designed with the visual impact of water at fifteen holes, the Fazio course lies between the Love and Dye layouts at the 72-hole Barefoot Resort.

South Carolina, United States

In 1990, the 18-hole Heathland layout opened for play at the Legends Golf Resort in Myrtle Beach. It was only the second course that Tom Doak had built...

South Carolina, United States

The Ralston Creek golf course at Daniel Island Club is a Rees Jones design that was unveiled in 2006, six years after Tom Fazio’s Beresford Creek layout debuted at the same location.

South Carolina, United States

Designed with narrow fairways and undulating greens, the 18-hole layout at the Country Club of Spartanburg features bermuda fairways and bent grass greens.

South Carolina, United States

Home to the Clemson Tigers golf team, the Walker Course at Clemson University is a DJ DeVictor design that brings Hartwell Lake into play – especially at the signature “Tiger Paw” 17th – during the last five holes on the scorecard.

South Carolina, United States

There’s quite a bit of elevation change encountered during a round on the North course at Berkeley Hall, which is not the sort of playing characteristic normally associated with golfing close to the south east coast.

South Carolina, United States

Set out within a gated estate, the Dye course at the Barefoot Resort is the only semi-private layout at this fantastic four-course facility.

South Carolina, United States

The golf course at Thornblade Club is a Tom Fazio design that underwent a major facelift in 2010 to install new greens, add more tees and renovate cart paths.

South Carolina, United States

Constructed four years ahead of Arthur Hills’ Morgan River layout at Dataw Island Club in 1985, the Cotton Dike course is a Tom Fazio design that’s laid out along the narrow island’s southern and eastern shoreline.

South Carolina, United States

The Robert Trent Jones course at the 54-hole Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort on Hilton Head Island was the first 18-hole layout to open for play at this venue in 1968. An open, non-returning track, it was renovated in 2002 by Roger Rulewich.

South Carolina, United States

The 18-hole Moorland layout at the Legends Golf Resort is a P.B. Dye design that first opened its doors to visiting golfers in 1990, the same year that Tom Doak’s Heathland course debuted at the same Myrtle Beach venue.