What You Need To Know: Lake Marion Golf Course By Brian Weis

What You Need To Know: Lake Marion Golf Course

An Insightful Interview With Todd Miller, PGA, General Manager

By Brian Weis

Whether you have played a course 20+ times a year or looking to play the course for the first time, insights from an insider can help enhance your golf experience. Below is an interview with Todd Miller, PGA who shares some valuable tidbits about the course, memorable holes and must eats and treats at the 19th.

Give Our Readers An Overview of the Golf Course/Property
Located in the heart of Santee lies one of the more rewarding golf experiences in the area. Opened in 1978, the Eddie Riccoboni-designed Lake Marion Golf Course is a perennial favorite with traveling golfers and features fantastic Mini Verde Bermudagrass greens that are in perfect shape all year long. Lake Marion will challenge you with pine tree-lined fairways, bordering lakes and 47 sand bunkers. But don't let these challenges fool you. Lake Marion is an extremely fair test of golf and is sure to please players of all abilities. The Lake Marion Golf Villas and Townhouses overlook this beautiful layout and a lighted driving range, golf shop and the amazing Palmetto Traverse Putting Green are conveniently located on property.

If Someone Was Looking To Golf In The Area, Why Should They Play Your Course?
Three reasons

* Affordability
* Convenient location off I-95
* A fun layout

What Tips or Local Knowledge Would You Provide To Help Them Score Better At Your Course?
Keep it in the short grass to setup your scoring opportunities.

Any recent changes to the golf course? Or any upcoming changes?
New sand in all bunkers in June 2022. The addition of Palmetto Traverse Putting Course in 2020.

What Is The Signature, Most Talked About, or Most Photographed Hole?
Hole #1

What Is Your Favorite Hole? Any Tips to Play It?
Hole #6

It is a challenging downhill lie over water.

Choose your club carefully!

For the traveling golfer, do you have lodging onsite or partner with any area hotels?
For the traveling golfer, do you provide lodging if so please share your accommodations or do you partner with any local lodging establishments.

As part of Santee Cooper Golf Resort, Lake Marion Golf Course offers a wide variety of lodging options from the on-course Lake Marion Townhouses and Lake Marion Golf Villas, to local condos, hotels and inns...all within a stone's throw of all the Santee area courses.

Back Tee Stats
Par: 72
Yardage: 6413
Slope: 120
Rating: 70.9

More Information
Lake Marion Golf Course
9069 Hwy. 6
Santee, SC, 29142
(803) 854-2554

http://lakemariongolf.com

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Revised: 05/20/2022 - Article Viewed 7,662 Times - View Course Profile

About: Brian Weis

Brian Weis is the mastermind behind GolfTrips.com, a vast network of golf travel and directory sites covering everything from the rolling fairways of Wisconsin to the sunbaked desert layouts of Arizona. If there’s a golf destination worth visiting, chances are, Brian has written about it, played it, or at the very least, found a way to justify a "business trip" there.

As a card-carrying member of the Golf Writers Association of America (GWAA), International Network of Golf (ING), Golf Travel Writers of America (GTWA), International Golf Travel Writers Association (IGTWA), and The Society of Hickory Golfers (SoHG), Brian has the credentials to prove that talking about golf is his full-time job. In 2016, his peers even handed him The Shaheen Cup, a prestigious award in golf travel writing—essentially the Masters green jacket for guys who don’t hit the range but still know where the best 19th holes are.

Brian’s love for golf goes way back. As a kid, he competed in junior and high school golf, only to realize that his dreams of a college golf scholarship had about the same odds as a 30-handicap making a hole-in-one. Instead, he took the more practical route—working on the West Bend Country Club grounds crew to fund his University of Wisconsin education. Little did he know that mowing greens and fixing divots would one day lead to a career writing about the best courses on the planet.

In 2004, Brian turned his golf passion into a business, launching GolfWisconsin.com. Three years later, he expanded his vision, and GolfTrips.com was born—a one-stop shop for golf travel junkies looking for their next tee time. Today, his empire spans all 50 states, and 20+ international destinations.

On the course, Brian is a weekend warrior who oscillates between a 5 and 9 handicap, depending on how much he's been traveling (or how generous he’s feeling with his scorecard). His signature move" A high, soft fade that his playing partners affectionately (or not-so-affectionately) call "The Weis Slice." But when he catches one clean, his 300+ yard drives remind everyone that while he may write about golf for a living, he can still send a ball into the next zip code with the best of them.

Whether he’s hunting down the best public courses, digging up hidden gems, or simply outdriving his buddies, Brian Weis is living proof that golf is more than a game—it’s a way of life.