Congaree Golf Club

Tom Fazio designed Congaree Golf Club in 2017 on a piece of Ridgeland, South Carolina low-country land near the Savannah River — the most recent significant Fazio commission and one of his most-discussed late-career routings. The course was conceived not as a traditional country club but as an inclusive destination — Congaree's founding members organized the property around the Congaree Foundation, which provides golf and educational programming to underserved children and college students from across the country. The architectural brief Fazio received emphasized strategic-design quality without the destination-resort apparatus.

The course plays around 7,656 yards par 72 from the championship markers, with paspalum turf and a slope in the upper 140s. Fazio routed the eighteen holes through low-country oak savanna with natural cypress and tupelo wetlands as the architectural defense. Congaree hosted the PGA Tour's Palmetto Championship in 2021 (Garrick Higgo won), giving the routing immediate Tour exposure within four years of opening. The fifteenth hole is a 590-yard par-5 with a tee shot played over a natural wetland; the eighteenth, a 461-yard par-4 with a green set against a natural pond, has decided multiple tournaments staged on the routing.

Congaree is private and operates under the Congaree Foundation model — the foundation's beneficiaries play the course alongside the small private membership, which gives the property a hospitality model unlike most American private clubs. The 2024 Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions was scheduled for Congaree, and the foundation continues to host educational programming on the property year-round.

South Carolina low-country climate keeps Congaree playable year-round, with the firmest conditions in October through May. Summer humidity and afternoon thunderstorms compress mid-day rounds through July and August. The oak savanna and wetland setting gives the routing visual signature distinct from the broader South Carolina coastal courses.