Spring Island’s developers refer to their 3,000-acre island as a park with a
community in its midst. More than 1,200 of those acres are dedicated to
nature preserves and open space, and the Arnold Palmer/Ed Seay-designed Old
Tabby Links often feels more like a wildlife refuge than a golf course, as
players share the course with more than 600 species of flora and a variety of
fauna like wild turkeys, deer, quail, bobcats and eagles. Winding 7,004
yards through maritime forest and open marshland, Old Tabby is named for the
ruins of a Civil War-era plantation house that lie near the 9th green. At the
picturesque, intimidating par-3 17th hole, built on a narrow spit of land
between a spring-fed pond and the Chechessee River, it can seem like all the
island’s more than 300 species of birds and other wildlife are present—the
singing herons, anhingas and egrets nest and form a gallery like none other in
golf.
Old Tabby Links
Spring Island, S.C.
Par: 72
Yardage:
7,004
Year founded: 1992
Architects: Arnold Palmer & Ed
Seay
Contact: springisland.com, 843-987-2200
