Caledonia Golf & Fish Club

Caledonia Golf & Fish Club opened in January 1994 as the first solo design of the late Mike Strantz, and it announced his singular, artistic voice in golf architecture. The land was once one of the region's largest rice plantations, stretching from the Atlantic to the Waccamaw River; at its mid-1800s peak, Caledonia produced more than 700,000 pounds of rice annually. Strantz worked the oak-draped, sandy Lowcountry parcel with a painter's eye rather than an engineer's, shaping large, boldly contoured greens defended by ponds, streams, and bunkers, and framing holes with moss-hung live oaks and seasonal flowers. The par-70 layout plays around 6,526 yards yet defends par with a slope near 140. The famed clubhouse-hugging closing hole and marsh views have kept Caledonia on national Top 100 public and resort lists since its debut.