Courses

Congaree Golf Club | Ridgeland, South Carolina

A Tom Fazio design, Congaree Golf Club is located about 30 minutes north of Savannah, Ga., and opened in 2018. The club, which ranks No. 42 in Golf Digest’s America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses, hosted the PGA TOUR’s THE CJ CUP in October 2022, won by Rory McIlroy, as well as the Palmetto Championship at Congaree in June 2021, won by Garrick Higgo.

The 2025 Palmer Cup will begin a new partnership between the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation and Congaree Foundation that will advance their shared commitment to positively impact the lives of youth through character development, educational opportunities, and growth of the game of golf at the amateur and collegiate levels. The Palmer Foundation will support Congaree Foundation’s philanthropic efforts, including the Congaree Global Golf Initiative (CGGI), financially, programmatically, and through industry partnerships. CGGI, Congaree Foundation’s signature program, provides underserved and well-deserving high school students in the U.S. and globally who aspire to play collegiate golf access to the highest level of athletic coaching and academic tools to help them thrive in high school and college. The program, which is offered at no cost to participants, has helped youth golfers from 31 countries earn millions of dollars in scholarship funding and compete collegiately at over 50 schools in the U.S. since its inception.

The Palmer Foundation will also serve as a Nominating Partner for CGGI to identify and recommend future participants and will attend CGGI sessions at Congaree Golf Club and in the U.K. each summer to share the Palmer legacy. Additionally, the Palmer Foundation will endow a $100,000 scholarship for graduates of CGGI planning to enter a four-year university to play golf or study a golf-related field, such as agronomy or golf management, with plans to grow the endowment to $1 million by 2030. The partnership will also allow Congaree Foundation to provide a large and diverse pool of current and former CGGI students access to internship and employment opportunities with the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Bay Hill Club, Latrobe Country Club, and the Palmer Foundation.