Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw have been appointed by owner-operator South Street Partners to design a new golf course at Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina.

The course will be built on a 500-acre property, and it is estimated to open in winter 2025-26. The club already has an 18-hole May River course by Nicklaus Design and the Crossroads reversible nine-layout from King-Collins.

“Nearly 17 years ago our design company was scheduled to build a course at Palmetto Bluff,” said Coore. “That course never became a reality; but now South Street Partners, owners of Palmetto Bluff, have given us a second chance to join one of America’s most admired communities. We are excited about the potential of the site we’ve been given and the opportunity to create a course that hopefully can become a complement to the long history of golf in the Carolina community.”

Crenshaw said: “We are honoured to be starting the new course at Palmetto Bluff. We have a beautiful piece of land to work with and have been looking forward to doing something there for many years. It’s a special place.”

According to a release from South Street, Coore and Crenshaw have been given free rein of the Lowcountry land for their course. The layout will eventually anchor the community’s third village, Anson.

The site for Coore and Crenshaw’s design includes four different types of forest, with coastal and wetland views from many holes. Land between holes will be managed areas of native flora, comprising sparkleberry, silky aster, fox tail, goldenrod and wiry broom sedge. Grass lines will transition directly into the native edges, which will be a blend of dense woodland, open quail woods, sandy brush, freshwater wetlands and saltwater marsh.

“Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw have designed some of the most extraordinary golf courses around the world, so they were the obvious first choice for our new course at Palmetto Bluff,” said Chris Randolph of South Street Partners. “Our vision was perfectly aligned from the start – to create a masterpiece that would not only be exciting to play but would also fit within its setting as though it could have been built a hundred years ago.”