The Chapel Creek Plantation is home to 12 villas located on the first fairway of the Santee National Golf Club. Each villa is decorated with a Southern architectural theme that includes two bedrooms (4 total beds), two baths, laundry and a kitchen. Its golf packages with golfsantee.com can be customized to include breakfast at Clark's Restaurant…
The Tudor Oaks Inn in Summerville, South Carolina, is a small outpost with only three rooms named after famous golf courses in Scotland (St. Andrews), England (Sunningdale) and Ireland (Royal Dublin). It sleeps only six, but staying has its perks: Access to the golf and tennis at the adjacent semiprivate club, the Legend Oaks Golf & Tennis Club,…
Santee, S.C., is a small village of just about 900 residents, but thanks to Lake Marion -- one of America's 50 largest lakes -- Santee is easy to find. And with affordable courses such as Lake Marion Golf Course and Santee National Golf Club, the village is a must-find. Santee's courses, all within a few minutes of each other, are good but won't make any Top 100 rankings, and that's just how its clientele likes it.
Located right in the heart of South Carolina off the main Interstate 95 artery, Santee's golf courses receive a lot of traffic, even if they don't get as much publicity as nearby hotspots Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head and Kiawah Island. You won't find the names of celebrity architects or eye-popping slope ratings splattered on scorecards, but you will see plenty of happy golfers on the area's rolling, sandy-soiled fairways.
Charleston's historic city center is close enough to tempt golfers into making the voyage about 45 minutes south to Kiawah Island and Seabrook Island. But for a more convenient golf escape, follow the airplanes overhead to North Charleston and Coosaw Creek Country Club, just minutes from Charleston International Airport.