Seabrook Island Club - Crooked Oaks

Crooked Oaks is the second course at the private Seabrook Island Club, on Johns Island near Charleston, South Carolina. Designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr., who began construction in 1979, the course opened in 1981 and reflects his signature philosophy of "hard par, easy bogey." The par-72 layout plays to about 6,780 yards from six tee options and winds inland through maritime forest, coastal marsh and centuries-old, moss-draped live oaks. The course takes its name from a distinctive crooked oak that guards the fourth hole, tempting players to fly the tree to reach a narrow green, while the heroic eighteenth finishes with a blind tee shot and water wrapping three sides of the green. Crooked Oaks holds a place in conservation history as one of the first South Carolina courses certified under the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program. Together with Ocean Winds, it gives Seabrook members a classic Trent Jones counterpart to their coastal course.