Edgewater will leave you Warm and Fuzzy

 By Mike Dojc

Lancaster’s Edgewater Golf Club is the most spellbinding golf course within an hour’s drive of downtown Columbia.  If you’re on an empty stomach and want to fuel up before your round, hit up Flopeye Diner in Great Falls along the way for some eggs, biscuits, and corn beef hash.

Arriving at first light with the mist rising from the depths of the driving range, my recurring thought was “damn, how had I not even heard of this place before.”

 

 

Cut out of a swath of virgin forest six years back during the dregs of the Great Recession, they get the “wow, who knew this was here,” sentiment quite a lot when a newbie pulls up to the clubhouse of this ridge-riding highlight of this Fuzzy Zoeller signature community.

It’s seven a.m. and misty when I arrive and a flock of plump wild turkeys making “gobble, gobble” sounds are my only audience as I warm up. Gorgeous vistas of rolling Carolina countryside greet you on every hole, there are elevation changes aplenty, and the course is in tip-top game shape.

 

 

No. 7, a 419 yard par-4 from the tips, is a favorite of Charlotte Hornets great Dell Curry.  In a Fuzzy and Friends skins tourney a few years back the sharpshooter flew the corner of the dogleg leaving him 40-feet from the cup.  Curry’s long-range game is as impressive as it was on the hardcourt and he dropped his putt in for eagle.

His group had been all knotted up through the first six holes so the sensational putt was good for seven skins.

Book Edgewater as Part of a South Carolina Olde English Golf Package.

Check out the other courses on the roster.

 

 

A card-carrying member of the leisure cognoscenti when Mike Dojc isn’t repairing impossibly large divots or alphabetizing his impressive ball marker collection, he’s slinging copy for a diverse range of editorial and corporate entities. Highlights of his client roster include Nike, Geico, Atlanta Magazine, Maxim, Metro News, SCORE Golf, Huffington Post, Golf Canada, Fairways Magazine and many others.  He blogs at SlingingBirdies.com

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