Cassique Golf Club - South Carolina, U.S.A.

Cassique is a private course that is part of the Kiawah Island Club, although it is actually located just across the Kiawah River on Seabrook Island. The course, opened in 2000, is a creative and gorgeous fusion of Carolina Low Country and Scottish-style hill country golf Designed by five-time British Open champion Tom Watson, the front nine occupies what was once flat farmland. More than a million cubic yards of earth were moved to transform the land into rolling hills, with "Mount Watson," the highest point, rising to 45 feet. The world's largest tree spade was brought in to relocate 67 live oaks. Watson also introduced features from classic links courses, including a recreation of the Spectacles, the famous twin bunkers at Carnoustie, on Cassique's No.6. The back nine is a series of enchanting lowland holes along the marsh with long views out to the Ocean Course and the Atlantic. Cassique is named for the Chief of the Kiawah Indians who in 1670 led the English colonists to settle in what would become Charleston.

Caledonia Golf and Fish Club - South Carolina, U.S.A.

Caledonia Golf & Fish Club in Myrtle Beach, which opened in 1994, is a public course that is deeply rooted in the antebellum South. Caledonia was originally a large rice plantation, having been founded by Dr. Robert Nesbit, a Scottish immigrant, who adopted the Roman name for his native country. Nesbit acquired the plantation in the 1700s by marrying Elizabeth Pawley, whose family settled nearby Pawleys Island, and the Nesbit family continued to operate Caledonia until 1940. The drive up to the colonnaded clubhouse, through ancient live oaks draped in Spanish moss, is as impressive as any in golf. By the time Caledonia was acquired in 1971 for use as a hunting and fishing club, only 152 acres of the once vast plantation remained. Two decades later, when a golf Course was built, designer Mike Strantz made the most of the tight site, creating a variety of holes that feature sculpted waste areas, live oaks, and water hazards. The 18th hole is a resounding finish with water down the right side and views of the old rice fields stretching out beyond the Waccabuc River.