The seventeenth inexperienced at Yeamans Corridor golf course in South Carolina.
LC Lambrecht
As I replicate on my 12 months in golf and all of the rounds I performed, one course stands out above the remaining. Nestled within the low nation of South Carolina is Yeamans Corridor Membership, a GOLF High 100 Course. It’s value mentioning off the highest that Yeamans boasts unimaginable structure, beautiful views and pristine course circumstances. However that’s not why I chosen it for my favourite course in 2024. To raised perceive why I selected it, we’ll have to return to the autumn of 2013.
On the time I used to be a freshman taking part in on the Girls’s Golf Workforce on the College of North Carolina at Greensboro (to not be confused with the Tar Heels simply up the street) and we had been in qualifying for the primary occasion of the autumn golf season. Sadly, I missed the lineup and needed to sit at residence whereas my teammates made the trek right down to play within the Cougar Traditional, a event hosted by the Faculty of Charleston at, you guessed it, Yeamans Corridor Membership.
When my teammates returned residence, they regaled me with their tales from their unimaginable experiences taking part in the well-known personal membership.
“You’ll have beloved it, extensive fairways and greens which can be so undulating they appear to be elephants had been buried below them,” one teammate stated.
“It felt like touring again in time! We couldn’t even use our telephones on the vary,” stated one other.
“And it’s proper off the water, the views had been wonderful,” my different teammate gushed.
As I listened, I promised myself that I might do no matter it took to make the lineup the next 12 months. Over the following 12 months I practiced tougher than I ever had. I used to be decided to get to ChuckTown. And my arduous work paid off once I certified for the 2014 Cougar Traditional.
From the second we drove by means of the gates, each expectation I had was blown out of the water. Proper right down to the bagpiper that performed up the complete first gap by means of the morning fog to kick off the ultimate spherical.
Maddi McClurg
Flash ahead to October of 2024 and I stood over the identical opening tee shot from 10 years in the past (above left). As I seemed out from the primary tee scanning the horizon for my goal line, I used to be drenched in nostalgia. I had chills excited about how far I’ve come.
Every gap I performed unlocked some long-lost reminiscence from my faculty golf profession. I even tapped into some native data that helped me navigate a number of of the difficult course options that you just’d anticipate from an amazing Seth Raynor design — the cross bunkers, elevated greens, iconic par-3s and dramatic landscapes that supply a number of routes into the inexperienced.
I tried to beat my event low from faculty, and it’s protected to say my recreation was put to the take a look at. The extensive open fairways had been completely baked out, giving drives a number of further yards of roll. However you wanted greater than further size off the tee to attain on this course. Good ball-striking was typically rewarded, however even well-struck method photographs would often catch the dramatic curves of the inexperienced and ship the ball tumbling into the gathering areas under or the deep bunkers that guarded the elevated greens.
Chipping onto the raised greens was difficult, particularly over the gaping bunkers that had been arduous to disregard. And in case your ball landed in one of many many greenside bunkers, you’d have a frightening up-and-down forward of you as you’d need to splash the ball over the tall inexperienced pads. And it didn’t get simpler as soon as you bought on the inexperienced. Two-putt pars felt extra like birdies on the massive undulating surfaces.
Maddi McClurg
However, the views, from the huge waterfront to the Spanish Moss dangling from the timber, helped to melt the blows to my rating. And the half-way home offered me with the sustenance (canned Gatorade and Nekot crackers) wanted to make a number of birdies on the again.
As I strolled down the 18th fairway, I used to be greeted by the enchanting clubhouse and reminded that, a decade later, my unimaginable day had come to a detailed. Enjoying Yeamans Corridor Membership was a deal with I gained’t quickly neglect.
