New owner has improvements planned for Legend Oaks Golf Club near Charleston, SC
Released on = July 5, 2007, 12:29 pm
Press Release Author = GolfPublisher Syndications
Industry = Media
Press Release Summary = Big changes are afoot at Legend Oaks Golf Club in Summerville. Charleston-area reviews at GolfCarolina.com
Press Release Body = By Tim McDonald, National Golf Editor, Golf Publisher Syndications
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — The drive to Legend Oaks Golf Club takes quite a while out of Charleston, down lonesome country roads kept cool and shady by overhanging oaks.
You\'re heading west, away from the lowest of the marshy lowcountry on the coast, and you might notice a slight change in the terrain, a little rise and dip here and there.
The golf course benefits from the change in contours, though it could hardly be called hilly. Still, there\'s enough there to set it apart from coastal courses.
Legend has it that Legend Oaks was laid out by the club\'s original member, Granville \"Sonny\" Way, who owned the land upon which the club now sits. In the early 1970s, Way learned how to operate heavy equipment and built the course over a period of eight years, finally opening his work as Westoe Plantation Golf Club in 1978.
Way sold the course in the early \'80s, and the course has had a checkered history ever since, its name being changed eventually to its current one.
Locals will tell you that the back nine was one of the calmest and most peaceful places in this part of the country, set so far back in the woods with nothing but the still swamp and its alligators.
They will also tell you that the conditioning of the course was often, during these years, miserable.
The course now has a new owner, Jim Chickarello, with plans to spruce up the layout.
\"It\'s already a good track, but its potential is unbelievable,\" said Tim Keenan, the new teaching pro at the club.
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July 5, 2007 Any opinions expressed above are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of the management.
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