Best Golf Courses Near Beaufort, SC

South Carolina towns don’t come any more charming than Beaufort, which has been used as a featured location for films such as Forrest Gump and The Big Chill. While the only two golf courses that list a Beaufort address are Secession Golf Club, a prestigious private club, and Olde Beaufort Golf Club, a traditional lowcountry layout, more than 50 golf courses lie within Beaufort County. The county is quite vast and includes golf-rich Bluffton and Hilton Head Island. You’ll find designs by a who’s who of renowned course architects—Pete Dye, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Fazio, Arnold Palmer, George Cobb, Davis Love III, Arthur Hills, and many more. Beaufort will wow you all throughout the year, but the town is known for its numerous festivals. Most notable are January’s Beaufort Oyster Festival and two that occur in October—the Shrimp Festival and the Fall Festival of Houses and Gardens, where you can tour gorgeous historic homes. A day of golf followed by time in this romantic lowcountry town sounds like pure bliss to us.