June 19, 2004 (I was 59)
Heritage and Willbrook Plantation
Love and frustration
define holes at Heritage, a superb plantation
course. Some difficult forced carries and
deceptive shot choices, puzzling
even after a number of
plays. Bermuda greens with subtle
breaks right
at the hole are a part of
the test here. Three hundred year
old oaks,
emotion-laden plantation
history, lowland humidity, cobalt sky with drifting
puffs of cloud, alligator
ponds, a killer course with deceptive shot choices
and potato chip shaped
greens in the burn of summer. A
genuine taste of
the South Carolina low-country
golf experience.
Willbrook is another
definitive plantation course with moss
laden oaks, meandering
stream and dark reflective ponds on grounds
replete with historic
markers to recall details of the old plantation life.
You don’t want a ball in
the sweaty, snaky, insect-infested wetland.
Nor do you want to miss the
feeling of a golf round in the setting golden
sun on the idyllic last day
of a great pair of weeks. I played
nineteen
full rounds and nine more
holes in twelve days of golf, not a trip
record, but more than
satisfying.
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