Golf South Carolina

Golf on historic rice plantations of South

Carolina for a special treat.





Golf on historic rice plantations of South Carolina for a special treat. Plan your next golf

vacation just 20 minutes south of Myrtle Beach!





Nothing could be finer...



Just a few short miles south of Myrtle Beach South Carolina, well known for it's 100

plus golf courses, you'll find Georgetown County, a monument to the fine tradition of the

southern way of life. Tradition reigns supreme even to this day as many families have

been there for 175 years or more. You'll find the same names in the All Saints Cemetery

on King's Highway that belong to the movers and shakers of today. The people behind

those outstanding golf courses that are #1 on your "hit" parade.



Believe me you'll find golf in this area...and perhaps the best golf to be found in the

Myrtle Beach area. One of the oldest golf courses in the area is Litchfield Golf and

Country club, now we know that many of you have heard of or even played golf at

Litchfield, or perhaps played it's sister course, River Club, but did you know that both of

these outstanding courses exist on what was once a rice plantation extending from the

Waccamaw River to the Atlantic Ocean. Litchfield Plantation came into being

approximately 1794 and a plat from that time shows an Avenue of Oaks and a house with

two chimneys at either end, today you can still see that house, totally renovated and

offered as a wonderful Bed and Breakfast Inn, with an adjacent restaurant aptly named

The Carriage House Both are totally steeped in the charm of a another day, elegant and

authentic in detail, intimate and very special.



In the same area of Litchfield Beach is a fine old plantation, Willbrook, that now boasts

3 beautiful golf courses that include Willbrook and The Tradtion,(part of the Myrtle

Beach National stable of courses) and The Reserve, a relatively new private course.



Play golf on such outstanding courses as Caledonia (voted the "Most Beautiful Golf

Course"). We believe you'll agree when you drive down that long avenue of old oaks

with Spanish Moss to the clubhouse and the now fallow rice fields, that it is indeed a

baurtiful site. Caledonia is on the site of "Waverly Plantation" circa 1750 and in

continuous ownership by the Allston and Lachicotte families. Robert Allston was

Governor of South Carolina from 1857 to 1859 and his papers for expenditures for his

rice plantation from 1834 to 1857 survive to this day, but as was the case with many

wealthy planters of the day, the Allstons lost much of their fortune as a result of the

economic turmoil of the Civil War. Philip Lachicotte bought Waverly Plantation in 1871.

Waverly Mills rice was famous and in fact won a Gold Medal in the 1902 Charleston

Exposition, but by 1911 the rice culture was totally dead in South Carolina. True Blue

Golf Club is also in this section of Pawleys Island and a monument to the old plantations

of yesterday. If you look closely, when you play golf at these golf courses you may spot

Doc Lachicotte having lunch in the clubhouse.



Gracious southern plantations abound in this area, names like Brookgreen, Hobcaw

Barony, (home to Bernard Baruch in the early 19th century), and Wachesaw date well

back to antebellum times. Brookgreen is now the site of Huntington National State Park

and Brookgreen Gardens, floral and sculpture garden without peer.



Wachesaw Plantation, backing up to Brookgreen Plantation has it's own abandoned rice

fields, but today is an outstanding Tom Fazio private golf course and residential area. It

is the most thoroughly researched plantation in the area. Archeologists dug and sifted for

3 years marking slave cemeteries and Indian burial grounds. The original plantation

house setting on a bluff overlooking the Waccamaw river burned about 1890. In the

section known as Richmond Hill there are remnants of a Revolutionary Fort with outline

of old trenches still visible. You can play this wonderful golf course when you buy into

some of our outstanding Myrtle Beach golf packages.



We wanted to give you food for thought the next time you go to play golf in Georgetown

County just south of Myrtle Beach. It's an ideal place for a golf vacation, with your

foursome or your family. You can absorb the histroy and ambiance of a long ago past,

even as you play the outstanding golf courses. For more information about the area and

the golf...visit www.myrtlebeachgolfsecret.com - you will truly discover the secret

behind golf in the Myrtle Beach area.



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