What You Need To Know: Santee Cooper Country Club By Brian Weis

What You Need To Know: Santee Cooper Country Club

An Insightful Interview With Todd Miller, PGA, General Manager

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 Todd Miller, PGA 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
Opened in 1967, Santee Cooper Country Club offers perhaps the most scenic round of golf in the area. A George Cobb design, the course is set amid majestic pines and native foliage and features Mini Verde Bermudagrass greens. This well-conditioned layout will test every shot in your bag with its series of beautiful dogleg holes, strategic bunkering and challenging par 3s. You are certain to enjoy the magnificently designed risk-reward par 5s and the course's elevation changes. Santee Cooper Country Club offers the best closing hole in Santee with a panoramic view of Lake Marion's sparkling waters.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Three main reasons to play the golf course.

* Proximity to I-95
* Scenic water views
* Affordability

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Keep it in the fairway. If you stay straight off the tee you will set yourself up for scoring opportunities.

Any recent changes to the golf course? Or any upcoming changes?
The addition of Palmetto Traverse Putting Course at sister course, Lake Marion Golf Course, in 2020.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole #18

A mid length par 4 that ends with the water in the background.

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
Hole #1.

It's a hard dog leg left par 4 that goes around water.

Bite off as much as you want, but watch out for the water, or...play it safe and have a short iron into the hole.

For the traveling golfer, do you have lodging onsite or partner with any area hotels?
As part of Santee Cooper Golf Resort, Santee Cooper Country Club offers a wide variety of lodging options from it's sister property Lake Marion Golf Course's on-course Townhouses and Golf Villas to local condos, hotels and inns...all within a stone's throw of all the Santee area courses. Visit http://santeecoopergolf.com/lodging to view all featured lodging options.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6578
Slope: 129
Rating: 71.7

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Santee Cooper Country Club
630 Santee Drive
Santee, SC, 29142
(803) 854-2467

https://santeecoopercc.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.