South Carolina has been a hotspot for new golf courses in recent years, from Old Barnwell to Broomsedge to PGA Tour player Zac Blair’s Tree Farm.
The catch, though, is you need to be a member (or know someone) to tee it up at those spots and a number of other new spot in the Palmetto state.
But the public golf audience is about to be served well with the opening of Candyroot Lodge, an elevated retreat set on more than 1,200 acres of rolling terrain in the Carolina sandhills an hour from Columbia, S.C., and Charlotte, N.C.
The first 18-hole layout, opening for preview play later this year with a grand opening scheduled for spring 2027, is being designed by Mike Koprowski, architect of the aforementioned Broomsedge. That course, some 30 miles south, opened to rave reviews…