Various accounts of the history of golf suggest that the term greens fee, the amount paid in order to access a particular golf course, was born in the state of South Carolina.

Remnants of the Old South still linger throughout the Palmetto State, in the form of confederate flags and exclusive country clubs with little or no diversity, whether it be racial or economic, in the make-up of their memberships. But somewhere between the formation of South Carolina’s first golf club, South Carolina Golf Club which utilized “Harleston Green” in downtown Charleston, in 1876 and today, the state has developed a reputation as a prime destination for public-access golf.