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Owned by | CCA Financial |
Total holes | 90 |
Tournaments hosted | Ryder Cup (1991) World Cup (1997, 2003) PGA Professional Championship (2005) Senior PGA Championship (2007) PGA Championship (2012, 2021) |
Website | kiawahresort.com |
Yet the private golf component of the island -- the Kiawah Island Club -- is a relative unknown to most traveling golf ers. This bastion of Lowcountry living is home to two world beater, 18-hole layouts, a breezy 10,000-square-foot Beach Club, a new state-of-the-art spa and enough Southern hospitality to last a lifetime.
The Kiawah Island Club's inaugural course, The River Course, is a haunting, Tom Fazio designed brute that snakes along the reed-choked banks of Kiawah River and the shimmering shores of "Bass Pond.". Linksy Cassique -- Watson's only North American design credit and the more critically acclaimed of the two layouts -- followed in 2001.
The Kia wah Island Club is a non-equity private club ( members do not take partial ownership of the course) with a $135,000 initiation fee that is 100 percent refundable upon leaving the club. Property ownership is required, and the pickings are prodigious. Kiawah Island Real Estate currently has available homes and lots available in three ...
Long held by the Vanderhorst family, Kiawah Island was purchased by C.C. Royal in 1950 for logging and timber; he went on to develop the first summer home neighborhood in 1954 along the beach and named the street Eugenia, after his wife.
The Kiawah Island Community Association is a non-profit corporation established in 1976 that governs and manages the business and property that contribute to the overall ambiance and property values of Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
Located 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Charleston in Charleston County, South Carolina, it is primarily a private beach and golf resort. It is home to the Kiawah Island Golf Resort, with spacious villas, beaches, ...
Pete Dye designed the Ocean Course in 1991 and the course has since proved to be one of the toughest on the East Coast. The Ocean Course was the home of the 1991 Ryder Cup, the 1997 World Cup of Golf, the 2007 Senior PGA Championship, and the 2012 PGA Championship, becoming only the fourth golf course in history to host each of the PGA of America's men's major championships. The Ocean Course was featured in the 2000 movie The Legend of Bagger Vance, starring Will Smith, Matt Damon and Charlize Theron .
Joe Gibbs, retired Hall of Fame NFL head coach for the Washington Redskins and owner of Joe Gibbs Racing. Nikki Haley, former Governor of South Carolina and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of General Electric.
Kiawah Island is owned by Bill Goodwin, who also owns Sea Pines Resort in nearby Hilton Head Island, as well as Keswick Hall in Charlottesville, Va. (though all three are operated independently).
Brandon Tucker. Brandon Tucker is the Sr. Managing Editor for GolfPass and was the founding editor of Golf Advisor in 2014, he was the managing editor for Golf Channel Digital's Courses & Travel. To date, his golf travels have taken him to over two dozen countries and nearly 600 golf courses worldwide.
As waters rise, so do concerns for sports teams along coast. On Kiawah Island, 17 miles southwest of Charleston and home to some of the most expensive real estate in the American South, nuisance flooding was beginning to affect some low-lying areas following heavy rains.
KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — To walk along the 18th hole at the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island is to stand outside the lion’s cage. Nature’s awesome power is implied and understood, but from the safety of your perch, it is only there for you to gawk and marvel at. The Atlantic Ocean, visible from your raised ground just beyond the dunes, ...
The Ocean Course, which hosts the PGA Championship this week, was born from nature at its most destructive, its construction in 1989 halted when Hurricane Hugo flattened Kiawah Island and set construction on the course back to square one.
On the island, small areas of green have been overtaken by blue. But the Ocean Course, with its raised playing surfaces, remains green. “We’re starting to see they’re going to need to raise some of their cart paths,” he says. “But in general, in 2040, the course is still really good.
When Levine, who lives in Charleston, sets the date on the NOAA sea-level-rise viewer to 2080, he briefly shifts the map to the northeast, then zooms in and circles a house near the northern tip of the Charleston peninsula, where blue has now overtaken green. Advertisement. Story continues below advertisement.