South Carolina

The only picture that exists from my South Carolina playing days as a teenager is a picutre of a picture.

The only picture that exists from my South Carolina playing days as a teenager is a picutre of a picture.

The splendid 17th at Harbour Town Golf Links

The criminally underrated Quixote Club

Special Features on South Carolina

Atlantic Dunes - Hilton Head Island, SC

Beech Creek Golf Club - Sumter, SC

Belfair - Bluffton, SC

Bear Creek Golf Club - Hilton Head Island, SC

Berkeley Hall - Okatie, SC

Caledonia Golf & Fish Club - Pawleys Island, SC

Callawassie Island Club - Okatie, SC

Chechessee Creek Club - Okatie, SC

Colleton River Club - Bluffton, SC

Colleton River Plantation - Bluffton, SC

Congaree - Ridgeland, SC

Country Club of Charleston - Charleston, SC

Daniel Island Club - Charleston, SC

Dolphin Head Golf Club - Hilton Head Island, SC

Glen Dornach Golf Club - North Myrtle Beach, SC

Golden Bear Golf Club - Hilton Head Island, SC

Greenville CC - Chanticleer - Greenville, SC

Haig Point - Daufuskie Island, SC

Harbour Town Golf Links - Hilton Head, SC

Heron Point - Hilton Head, SC

Hilton Head National - Bluffton, SC

Lake Marion Golf Course - Santee, SC

Links at Stono Ferry - Hollywood, SC

Long Cove Club - Hilton Head Island, SC

May River Golf Course - Bluffton, SC

Old South Golf Club - Bluffton, SC

Oldfield Country Club - Bluffton, SC

Osprey Point - Kiawah Island, SC

Oyster Reef Golf Club - Hilton Head Island, SC

Palmetto Dunes - Hilton Head Island, SC

Palmetto Golf Club - Aiken, SC

Palmetto Hall Golf Club - Hilton Head Island, SC

Port Royal Golf Club - Hilton Head Island, SC

Quixote Club - Sumter, SC

Riverton Pointe Country Club - Hardeeville, SC

Secession Golf Club - Beaufort, SC

The Golf Club at Indigo Run - Hilton Head Island, SC

The Ocean Course - Kiawah Island, SC

I can't imagine playing this course today and not taking a ton of pictures, but back in 1998 that is exactly what happened.  The lone gem on the top of this page is all that remains.  That's my dad and I getting ready to take on the Ocean Course.  Although it's hard to see, I believe that is also the original Great Big Bertha in my hands.  Even more noteworthy, is the photographic proof that I was the original button up man.  Somebody just forgot to tell Bubba Watson that it went out of style later on that summer of 1998.

20 years later, I still recall draining a 40 footer on 10 for birdie en route to a personal best round of 75.  This round of golf was one of my best for many, many years.

Update:  25 years after the original picture was taken, I would return to Kiawah Island on the RGV Tour.  I was under par for much of the front 9, but I would falter during the middle of the round and card a 77. That 75 remains on top in the record books and rightly so.  However, I did manage to take a lot more pictures this time around.

Tidewater Golf Club - Myrtle Beach, SC

Wachesaw Plantation Club - Myrtle Beach, SC

Brandon Canesi might not have hands, but it does not stop him from golfing hard.

Brandon Canesi might not have hands, but it does not stop him from golfing hard.

Wexford Golf Club- Hilton Head Island, SC

Wild Dunes - Harbor - Isle of Palms, SC

Yeamans Hall - Hanahan, SC