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By Alan B. Nichols, Golf Travel Reviews

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Farther south and closer toward Hilton Head off Rt.170 is Spring Island Club, which boasts a magnificent Arnold Palmer Company design through dense forest and open fields of former rice plantations. The setting is so remote and rustic that the wildlife makes more noise than humans, and the club is about as exclusive as you can get. Only about 300 six- and seven-figure homes have been built on the island and you will see none of them from the golf course.

Spring Island's front nine winds through ancient oak forest which has been designated a nature preserve by a strong community of naturalists on the island. The 9th hole is one of the best risk-reward short par 5's anywhere. It starts in the woods and heads toward the Chechessee River over a narrow fairway to a green flanked by one of the largest and best preserved tabby ruins of a plantation house you will see in the South. The back nine roams over old rice fields where slaves once worked. Today, the terrain has been turned into a beautiful nine holes marked by elevations, mounds, marshes and lakes.

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