Broomsedge enhances South Carolina golf fare
By John Steinbreder • August 29, 2025
REMBERT, SOUTH CAROLINA | Over the past decade, South Carolina has become one of the more alluring places for golf in America, especially for discerning players who are interested in course architecture and appreciate Golden Age-inspired designs. In fact, they have been flocking to the Palmetto State like hippies to Haight-Ashbury in the late 1960s. But the attraction in this case is not free love and Owsley LSD. Rather, these pilgrims are drawn by the new layouts that have recently opened, with several of them now regarded as among the best modern tracks in America.
Congaree is one such place, and it boasts a terrific Tom Fazio course. Old Barnwell and The Tree Farm are two others, with the former having been crafted by Brian Schneider and Blake Conant and the latter by PGA Tour player Zac Blair and architects Tom Doak and Kye Goalby.
Another addition to this increasingly enthralling bill of golf fare is Broomsedge. Located in the South Carolina sand hills some 40 miles east of the state capital of Columbia, its course was fashioned by Kyle Franz, who cut his architectural teeth working with Doak some 20 years ago at Pacific Dunes outside Bandon, Oregon, and Mike Koprowski, a Notre Dame graduate and Air Force veteran of the war in Afghanistan who had toiled as a shaper for Franz before buying the Broomsedge property and co-designing the course with his old boss.
The elevation changes are one of its most compelling features. Ditto the spacious greens and cavernous bunkers that along with the stands of cathedral pines endow the place with a sense of bigness even though the site is only some 200 acres in size. The architects made terrific use of the chasms and ridgelines that abound as well as the hummocks and hollows – and according to Koprowski moved very little earth in the process.
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