AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. – Long grasses swaying in constant breezes, salty air and sandy soils…sounds almost likes the links of Scotland, doesn’t it?
Even if such a comparison is a stretch, the Lowcountry is one of America’s best settings for golf. The marshy coastal corridor that runs from just south of Myrtle Beach, S.C., to just north of Jacksonville, Fla. is a unique region with great cities like Charleston, Beaufort and Savannah as well as some of the most beautiful wilderness east of the Mississippi.
In the Lowcountry, two things are always close at hand: quality seafood and quality golf. The former is always on point but the latter recently received a boost when the Omni Amelia Island Resort reopened its Oak Marsh golf course in mid-May. Architect Beau Welling brought a walkable, low-profile 1972 Pete Dye routing into the 2020s with some thoughtful revisions, reworking bunkers and green complexes to create an engaging and playable resort layout that will be like catnip to avid golfers staying on property…