Mount Pleasant Magazine Fall 2011

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T he ocean course at
Kiawah Island will join an elite
group of golf venues in August
2012, when the best golfers in the
world compete for top honors at the
94th PGA Championship.
Kiawah, located 21 miles south
of Charleston, will earn the distinct
honor of
being only
the fifth course to host the PGA
Championship, the Ryder Cup and the
Senior PGA Championship. The others
are Laurel Valley Golf Club in Ligonier,
Pa.; PGA National Golf Club of Palm
Beach Gardens, Fla.; Oak Hill Country
Club in Rochester, N.Y.; and Valhalla
Golf Club in Louisville, Ky.
Designed by Pete Dye and built in
1991, the Ocean Course is located at
the east end of Kiawah and has more
ocean-side holes than any course in
the Northern Hemisphere. Ten of the
18 holes border on the Atlantic, and
the entire par-72 course was raised to
give golfers magnificent views of the
ocean. The downside to this beautiful
panorama is that raising the course
made the already tricky winds even
more unpredictable.
The Ocean Course was the setting
for “The War by the Shore,” the 1991
Ryder Cup match decided by the final
putt on the final hole, and also for the
2000 movie “The Legend of Bagger
Vance,” starring Will Smith, Matt
Damon and Charlize Theron.
Golf Digest has honored the Ocean
By Brian sherman
Course on several occasions, ranking it
as the fourth best public course in the
country and “America’s Toughest Resort
Course.” The course also has earned
the designation “Certified Audubon
Cooperative Sanctuary” by the Audubon
Sanctuary System and has been named
Golf Course of the Year by the National
Golf Course Owners Association.
The PGA Championship, first played
in 1916, annually draws the strongest
field in golf. The 2011 tournament will
be played at The Atlanta Athletic Club
in Johns Creek, Ga.
Besides the Ocean Course, Kiawah
Island Golf Resort features four other
championship courses: Turtle Point,
designed by Jack Nicklaus; Osprey
Point, designed by Tom Fazio; Cougar
Point, built by Gary Player; and Oak
Point, a creation of Clyde Johnston.
An Elite Fivesome
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