Kiawah Island Golf Resort - Cougar Point

Kiawah Island, SC · 1.9 mi away

Osprey Point occupies inland ground on Kiawah Island and began life as the resort's members course. Tom Fazio designed it and it opened in 1988, and he returned in 2014 to lead a full renovation. The routing crosses lagoons, marshland and pine forest, with several holes running alongside water that tightens driving lines and sharpens the approach. Its shift from wooded corridors to open marsh views gives it a different character from Kiawah's exposed oceanfront courses. The 2014 work refreshed bunkering and turf while keeping the playability that defined the original.

Johns Island, SC · 1.9 mi away

Oak Point is the Kiawah Island Golf Resort course on the mainland approach to the island, set along the Kiawah River and Haulover Creek on Johns Island. Clyde Johnston designed it as Hope Plantation Golf Club, opened in 1989, and he describes the look as Scottish-American. The par-72 layout plays to about 6,759 yards through maritime forest, with undulating fairways and paspalum greens that reward a thinking approach over power. It was named the Charleston Golf Course Owners Association Course of the Year in 2019.

Kiawah Island, SC · 2.3 mi away

Turtle Point sits on the eastern end of Kiawah Island and was the second course to open at the resort. Jack Nicklaus designed it and it opened in 1981, winding through maritime forest and marsh before reaching three consecutive oceanfront holes on the back nine. Lagoons are placed to make the golfer choose a line rather than simply punish a miss, and the fairways are generous but angled. Nicklaus returned in 2016 to lead a renovation that regrassed the course in paspalum and refined the bunkering and green complexes. The result balances Lowcountry woodland golf with a genuinely dramatic run along the Atlantic.