Only In South Carolina…

…could you pull this off:

Many of us have wanted, at one point or another, to cordon off a section of the Lowcountry and preserve it forever, just for us.

Essentially, that’s what Secession Golf Club did. The club is the sole occupant of Gibbes Island, which lies between Cat and Lady’s islands. Its Web site claims “no real estate, now or ever, around the course.”

But it isn’t your typical golf course.
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“Members come to golf, but to sit on the porch, too,” Harmon said. “The porch is just as important.”

The club is named after the original Articles of Secession that were drafted in Beaufort in 1860, but its own history is brief. Bob Walton and Tim Moss, both from Hilton Head Island, thought up the course in the mid-1980s. They chose Beaufort because it is quiet and offers a can’t-be-duplicated, small-town atmosphere.

A perfect first-entry in the “Southern Comforts” category…no where else could you find something that celebrates the history of secession by doing something southern-esque while helping so many people from so far away and enjoying such a rich culture and history.

I can see myself sitting on the front porch at the Secession Golf Club, drinking a hot toddy and letting the rest of the world just pass me on by…everyone else can go shoot 9 or 18 holes – I suck at golf – but I can hold my own just fine thankyouverymuch in the rocking chair throwing a few back in the warm glow of a gentle southern afternoon.