Old Tabby Links golf course Reviews

The Old Tabby Links golf course is located in Spring Island, South Carolina and playing here for the first time, youll feel like in a National Geographic documentary. Thats because the Old Tabby was built on a 3000 acres piece of land which looks more like a wildlife refugee and whilst playing here, youll be able to admire more than six hundred species of fauna and flora while enjoying your favorite game. Truth be told, between shots you may very well be going bird watching, as the Old Tabby links golf course is home for wild turkeys, singing herons, egrets, anhingas and eagles, together with deer, quail and bobcats. The Old Tabby features 7135 yards of golf from its longest tees for a 72 par, spreading over a vast maritime forest and open marshland and its named after an old plantation which goes way back to the Civil War era.

The landscape is very picturesque and if youre a nature lover, this is the place to spend a big portion of your vacation. The golf course was founded in 1992 and it wears the signature of the architects Arnold Palmer with some inputs from Ed Seay. Keep in mind that what youll be dealing with here is a private facility, meaning that its only available for members and their guests. The golf course has a rating of 73,9 and a slope rating of 139, while the design and the layout epitomizes the areas nature first philosophy. Obviously, this course was carefully shaped to respect the natural surroundings and its very playable and user-friendly if I may use these words, being ranked as one of the top eighteen ever created by Palmer.