The mostly private Broomsedge Golf Club in Rembert, South Carolina, has opened for preview play, giving its members a first taste of the course designed by Kyle Franz and Mike Koprowski.
Broomsedge sits about 30 miles east of Columbia and was built atop sandy soil that features surprising elevation changes for the region.
“Members are going to love the intimate routing and optionality among the holes,” said Franz, whose design credits include the new Karoo course at Cabot Citrus Farms in Florida as well as restorations to Mid Pines, Pine Needles and Southern Pines in North Carolina and the Country Club of Charleston in South Carolina.
“No hole even remotely resembles another, which speaks to how much topographical diversity existed within a relatively small footprint,” Franz said in a media release announcing the start of preview play at Broomsedge. “It was always a freakishly good site for golf, and I think the routing and hole concepts maximized every bit of that inherent advantage.”
Perhaps best of all, Broomsedge will allow limited outside play for non-members. Such practice is common at many great clubs in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Broomsedge’s operators plan to adopt such a “U.K. model” – they have included a form for prospective guests on the club’s website. The amount of outside play to be allowed eventually is still being determined, but it likely won’t include more than a couple foursomes a day.
Check out a selection of photos of Broomsedge below.
