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Carolina Pines Golf
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Carolina Pines Golf
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Broomsedge Golf Club
Overview
Broomsedge is the baby of Mike Koprowski, a 41-year-old first-time club developer who has moonlighted the previous several years as a shaper with co-designer Kyle Franz. Living in Pinehurst, Koprowski saw central South Carolina as a potential soft spot in the expanding market of southeastern boutique private clubs and founded Broomsedge after locating this sand-based site 45 minutes east of Columbia. The land, divided into two distinct sections, is animated, cut by hollows and gullies. The designers filled the footprint with an impressive playbook of diverse and rustic holes of considerable breadth and movement, Koprowski’s more reserved touch balancing Franz’s penchant for boldness. The results are harmonic, with instant standouts that include the split-level par-4 second modeled after Eastward Ho!’s sixth (where Franz was working at the time) and the uphill, drivable par-4 15th with O.B. tight along the right. After a new acquisition by Baker Thompson and Michael Keiser Jr., the club will embrace the "welcoming private club" model of the British Isles, ala The Lido where Thompson and Keiser have worked together, to allow limited outside play in the coming years.
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Reviews
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“One of the best new courses in the Southeast area. A must play if you are in this area to play golf."
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“Refreshing that a course this good is taking a concept from the UK and implementing it here. Great layout hard to believe when I was told that not much dirt was moved for this course. Very unique and was firm and fast but fair when I played it."
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“Refreshing that a course this good is taking a concept from the UK and implementing it here. Great layout hard to believe when I was told that not much dirt was moved for this course. Very unique and was firm and fast but fair when I played it."
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“Nice new private club. A pleasant walking with caddie experience. I found that surviving the first 4 challenging holes was the key to a fun day. Lots of elevation changes on this relatively open course with good sized greens."
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“Wasn't sure how I would feel about this course going in. Images looked interesting, but also outlandish. Would this be a course that is on the South Carolina course boom bandwagon that isn't as interesting as the recent others? I was hearing a lot of positives from people I knew and decided to make the trek down. After walking off 18 I wanted to come back already and play it again. The course tests your game while allowing it to breathe some, which I enjoy. The pure takeaway from me was that this is a fun golf course. It can be challenging yet not annoyingly so. I think this course will gain traction and continue to garner positive reviews and people wanting to make the journey. Especially as it continues to grow in and infrastructure develops. The pond near the current temporary clubhouse poses potential for late evening short course style play. 5-6 greens in reach right around it with a lot of tee areas. I imagine this might have been by design."
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“This 2024 Mike Kaprowski/Kyle Franz design plays extremely firm and fast. Vast fairways and no rough allow you to blast away with your driver but be aware of the deep fairway bunkers which are well-placed. The closely mown areas around the greens lets your creativity shine through. The course is trending toward the British Isle model where public tee times are available at certain times. Definitely a must play when in the vicinity."
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“* Both nines feature 4 consecutive back and forth parallel holes in the same parts of the property that are straight away holes. Par 3's are nicely varied in yardage. More dogleg left than right by good amount. Greens are nicely varied in size, shape and angle. * Extremely wide from the tee with little angles while up by the greens are where the real challenge lies. Getting up and down takes extreme creativity and one needs to miss on the correct side of some holes to have a chance. Greens while sloped, played fair at lower greenspeed on this day. * The club has removed some of the out of bounds that flanked a few holes to prepare for more "resort" guests. This has changed some of the strategy and challenge of these holes to allow for greater drive displacement."
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“The course was fine. I spent two days here and played the course in the morning. I never really felt connected to this place. I don't know how long their teeing ground philosophy is going to work. The plates look like sprinkler heads and everyone tees up in the same place anyway so the turf is getting beat up next to the marker plates. I don't quite understand what is going on with the double greens. #6 if you go to far green you have to walk a mile around the pond to get to the green. And the caddies were telling us there are multiple greens for #11 they switch back and forth. I think one of those greens was originally meant for #13 as it shows in all the pics but that's not what they are playing now? If that green was too be used for #13 you would also have to walk a mile to #14 tee. What was fun was going out on the back 12 in the evening and just picking spots and playing to open greens cross country style. That was a blast coming up with your own holes and routing."
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“Like other courses built in the same timeframe, Broomsedge makes use of the sandy terrain and features some very interesting, undulating greens."
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“It's a course where certain holes just keep replaying in your head because they’re a little different and a little uncomfortable in a good way. A hole like the 4th stands out because it feels simple on paper, but anything drifting right brings trouble fast, and the green doesn’t give you an easy bailout. What really makes the course interesting and fun is how it changes: there are holes with alternate greens, and depending on which one you’re playing to, the entire strategy off the tee shifts. Overall, it’s wide enough that you don’t feel beat up, but clever enough that you’re constantly thinking about which side of the hole and green is the right place to be."
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