Charleston

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Wild Dunes Resort

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Isle of Palm. Surround yourself with marsh vistas, glistening dunes and crashing waves. That's golf at Wild Dunes Resort. Guaranteed to test you every day. Here, we celebrate the great old game in style with 36-holes of the Harbor Course and Links Course. Challenging enough for players of every skill level. Golf Digest says they're among the "Best in the State." Tom Fazio designed our courses early in his career, and says they're still among his favorites. Nowhere on the East Coast will you find such a combination of history and great golf courses.  The charm and beauty of Charleston have long proven to be irresistible.  A port city barely changed since its founding in 1670, but the golf sure has changed.  From the very first golf course in the nation, Charleston now possesses some of the best courses in America.  In this package you will find some of my favorites. This package for four is based on a 2-bedroom, 2 bath condo with kitchen facilities. Cost includes green fees and carts.

Wild Dunes' Links Course
the Links Course was the original designed by the master, Tom Fazio. And it’s still one of the world’s best. Rolling fairways. Rustling palms. Challenging enough for golfers of every level. Massive dunes and oceanside finishing holes recall the game’s Scottish birthplace. Features two finishing holes on the ocean. This outstanding layout presents rolling fairways that wander past moss-draped live oaks and palms, through giant sand dunes and along salt-water marshes.  Don’t think because the first 16 holes are not directly on the ocean that they are easy.  Far from it!  Number three tests your skill and you start asking, “Are we having fun yet?”  The Par 4 makes you hit a long ball just to carry the marsh.  Avoid it again by the green and it’s an easy hole, but don’t three putt.  It gets worse when you get to the “dunes holes” at the 11th through Number 13.   One visit to the dunes and you’ll be wishing for bunkers.  Don’t forget your camera on No. 12 it’s a heck of a view. Ranked in America's Top 100 courses by Golf Digest and GOLF Magazine.

Wild Dunes’ Harbor Course                                                                                               Another winner and still one of Charleston’s top resort golf courses. Tom Fazio played with water all over the Harbor Course. Fairways skirt salt marshes and the IntraCoastal. It’s quite an opposite from the Links Course.  This one is a target-oriented course with six par 3’s that play alongside the Intracoastal Waterway.  It rewards strategic thinking and skillful shot making.    If your game is off, you will not believe how much trouble you can get into on such a short course. Players seeking to overpower this track will soon be humbled by water that frequently comes into play.   The greens are large and well trapped.  You’re in for quite a finish as holes 16 and 17 actually hopscotch across saltwater marshland and feature the natural beauty of Morgan Creek.

Patriot's Point Links
This track is a deceptively short course, but has always been a favorite in Charleston.  This Willard Byrd layout offers an exceptional setting overlooking Charleston Harbor, With panoramic views of Shem Creek, Sullivan’s Island, James Island and the harbor itself makes Patriot’s Point a pleasurable golfing experience.  Prepare yourself to deal with wind and water.  Three holes on Byrd’s course actually sit on the harbor, including the signature par 3, 139-yard Number 17.  This island green placed on the harbor, overlooks Ft. Sumter and the Charleston skyline.  Club selection on the tee depends on the wind blowing from the harbor.

Charleston National
Situated on three islands overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway. This Rees Jones design features small pot bunkers, finger marshes, large mounds and alligators. It is advertised as “no place for the shy, meek or timid”.  Situated on three small islands overlooking Hamlin Sound and the Intracoastal Waterway, this course is a masterpiece.  Charleston National measures 6909 yards with a 73.5 rating and a 137 slope from the back tees and presents its challenge in the form of small pot bunkers, finger marshes, natural wetlands and large mounds.  This is another course where an ever-shifting wind toys with your club selection.  Another important note: there are an estimated 50 to 100 alligators that make Charleston National home.  Let them have the ball and give yourself a free drop!

Dunes West Golf Club
Located on the site of the historic Lexington Plantation, Dunes West has been ranked by GOLF Magazine and Golf Digest as a “Top Ten New Resort Course” while Golf Week placed the club in its “America’s Best” category.  Set amid Bermuda-covered dunes and 200-year-old oaks draped in Spanish moss, Dunes West blends it historically rich environment with outstanding golf facilities.  The Arthur Hills course plays to a relatively short 6,392 yards, but don’t be fooled.  As you progress around the Dunes West, each hole proves more difficult.  The course begins with a medium length par four and a lush par five.  By the time you reach Number 18, though, you’re facing a tough 454-yard par four that presents two greens.  The fairway of this bear is framed on the right by an avenue of oaks and on the left by a pine forest and a huge stand of bamboo.  Don’t get lost!

Legend Oaks Plantation                                                                                                       This traditional low country course was built on land that formerly was a rice plantation.  It earned its name from the 250-year-old oaks that dot the fairways.  Water hazard come into play on four holes and the course winds through forested hills and these big old oak trees.  The greens are medium-sized and have some undulation.  On the par 3 eighth, a well hit iron will get you home over the water. Anything too far left however will be in the water. A cautious golfer will favor the right side of the green. You may want to get a beer or a stiff drink at the turn to give you courage for the back nine.   The signature hole is the Par-4 #10 that requires a shot over a wetland area to an elevated green.  This is a 1994 Pete Dye design with Scott Pool, so you know you have a challenge on your hands. Chosen by the readers of Charleston Business Journal as one of the Top Three Low Country Courses, Legend Oaks is genuine Low Country golf at it's finest