The team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, one of the premium firms in golf course architecture, have signed on to design a new 18-hole course at Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina.
Owned by developer and course operator South Street Partners, the private Palmetto Bluff is already home to an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus course named May River that is ranked by Golfweek’s Best as tied for No. 171 among all modern courses in the United States. Palmetto Bluff also recently opened Crossroads, a nine-hole short course designed by the team of Tad King and Rob Collins.
For the newest 18, Coore and Crenshaw were given free run of 500 Lowcountry acres to choose the best spots for golf holes without worrying about where houses might fit, South Street said in a media release announcing the course. The course will anchor what is to become Palmetto Bluff’s third village, to be named Anson. The layout, yet unnamed, will play through four types of forest with coastal and wetland views.
The new course, located on the east end of Palmetto Bluff, is slated to open in the winter of 2025-2026 with a temporary clubhouse. A later Phase 2 will include a full clubhouse