Oak Hills

Getting To Know: Oak Hills Golf Club

An Insightful Interview With Young Lim, Head Professional

By Brian Weis

Whether you have played a course 20+ times a year or looking to play the course for the first time, insights from an insider can help enhance your golf experience. Below is an interview with Young Lim who shares some valuable tidbits about the course, memorable holes and must eats and treats at the 19th.

Give Our Readers An Overview of the Golf Course/Property
Oak Hills Golf Club, situated on a 160 acre tract of gently rolling hills and nestled among thousands of oak trees, pines and picturesque dogwoods, offers a challenge for golfers of all levels.

With its elevated, undulating greens, it is a golfing experience that few courses provide. When you stand on the elevated tee box on the par 5 #18, take a moment to enjoy the 360º panoramic view of parts of nine different golf holes, perhaps one of the most unique features of this outstanding public golf course.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Named to Golf Digest's "Places to Play" in 2006, this Steve Melnyk-Davis Love III design features perfectly maintained 419 Bermuda grass fairways and TifDwarf greens.

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Very generous off the tee but must be aware of the creeks that run through the fairways.

Any recent changes to the golf course? Or any upcoming changes?
Oak Hills Golf Club is the only public golf course to overseed in the winter. If you are looking for green grass in the winter you will find it on your trip to Oak Hills.

On Hole 13 we recently redid the bunkers and refaced the bunker walls.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole #7 is a par 3 over water that plays to an undulating green. Favor the left side to avoid the deep sand bunker and water.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
I love Hole #15, as it has the lone oak on the course. To play the hole, either carve the ball deep past the tree on the left or layup to the right before the tree for the best angle to green.

Must Have Dish or Drink after the round at the 19th Hole?
Golfers rave about our burgers. We recently added the Philly Cheese steak to our menu and it is one of my favorites.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6827
Slope: 144
Rating: 73.2

More Information
Oak Hills Golf Club
7629 Fairfield Road
Columbia, SC, 29203 803-735-9830
http://www.oakhillsgolf.com

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About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.