Kiawah Island Golf Resort is a South Carolina golfing destination with few rivals and a must for any golfer visiting the Charleston area. The club's members and resort visitors alike enjoy world-class accommodations, amenities, and recreational facilities along with five 18-hole championship golf courses set amongst Kiawah Island's ten miles of wide, immaculate beaches.
The Ocean Course garners the lion's share of attention at Kiawah Island Golf Resort, but the resort's other four courses have grown more popular thanks to a bevy of renovations and improvements. After a comprehensive nine-month renovation led by original course architect Jack Nicklaus and members of his architectural team, the Turtle Point Course reopened in late 2016 to rave player reviews.
Sweeping improvements to the par 72 course included re-grassing with Paspalum, rebuilding of all bunkers, laser-leveling all tee boxes, and re-establishing irrigation throughout the 6,911- yard course. Turtle Point's links-style layout exemplifies Jack Nicklaus' firm design philosophy to, “make the player use his mind ahead of his muscles - to control his emotions sufficiently to really think through his options before drawing a club from the bag.”
The resort features a full range of practice facilities as well as a Pro shop and luxurious clubhouse amenities. The resort provides an array of bar and dining options and there are function spaces and meeting rooms available. For those looking for further recreational or sporting activities, there is a spa and salon, swimming pools, and the fantastic Roy Barth Tennis Centre with 22 courts, including ten new Har-Tru clay courts, all bordered by fragrant oleander, rustling palmettos, swaying pampas grass, and vibrant flowers.
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On Kiawah Island's rugged eastern tip, the community of golf homes at Ocean Park rewards its residents with large home homesites, spectacular native vegetation and grand trees flanked by a mile-long interior ribbon park, and incredible layered views of the marsh, river and ocean.
The very best of Kiawah's colorful land and seascapes come together at Ocean Park. Created along a lush, mile-long stretch of interior parklands, grand golf estates and exceptional homesites take their place among nature's rich pageantry. Ocean Park frames some of the most coveted vistas found along the Atlantic coast as well as some of the most enviable golf residences.
The relaxed and healthy lifestyle at Kiawah, as well as the plethora of excellent golfing opportunities on hand, may make residents feel as if they are on a perpetual vacation. But the Island and neighboring areas also provide excellent schools and leading-edge medical facilities.
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