GOLF’s latest High 100 Programs within the U.S. rating consists of 11 newcomers, which we’ll introduce you to right here. Meet Outdated Barnwell in South Carolina.
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GOLF lately launched its newest rating of the High 100 Programs within the U.S. (2024-25), a listing that features 11 newcomers. A few of them you would possibly know. Others you won’t. Right here, in our newcomer spotlights, we’ll introduce you to those rookie High 100 gems.
Newcomer highlight: Outdated Barnwell / Rank: 51st
Location: Aiken, S.C.
Sort: Non-public
Yr opened: 2023
Architect: Brian Schneider, Blake Conant
What it’s essential find out about Outdated Barnwell
Architects Brian Schneider and Blake Conant borrowed traditional design ideas and utilized them in a recent means on a sandy parcel of rolling land exterior of Aiken. The firmness of the turf that superintendent Davis Verner routinely achieves (thanks, partially, to an absence of overseeding) permits the nuances of this design to glitter. Half-par holes abound. Are you able to attain the open however lengthy inexperienced on the par-5 opener? Do you have to attempt to drive the 2nd or 14th greens? (In case you attempt to fail, the hunter shortly turns into the hunted, as deep bunkers guard these two quick 4s.) Can you employ the mounds on the par-4 eighth to kick an method shut on the inverted L-shaped inexperienced? Or how about attempting to bounce one onto the rolling inexperienced on the 235-yard eleventh? In the meantime, the rust colour of the centipede tough lends this open course a heathland-like really feel. Finishing the perfect is the membership’s ethos of giving again to the sport and the group, as established by Outdated Barnwell founder Nick Schreiber.
What our raters say
“A visually and strategically compelling course. It invitations you to guess with regard to focused strains of play, rewarding you with success or the rapid want to attempt it once more with one other lap. The architectural creativity attracts the participant into the course. Some areas struck me as whimsical and others enjoyably strategic, giving gamers a way of North Berwick. Nicely finished with an impressive golf tradition that embeds an appreciation for each the structure and play.”
“Exterior of The Lido, Outdated Barnwell is essentially the most strategic new design of the previous 30 years. It requires considerate play all through and is the sort of course the place the direct line to the outlet is normally not the proper one. The bottom is a key ingredient and there are numerous holes the place the road off the tee adjustments dramatically each day based mostly on the place the outlet is minimize. The greens are daring with out being too extreme. That is the sort of course you may play each day with out losing interest, and it isn’t so troublesome that it could possibly’t be loved by all ranges of gamers.”
