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Santee Cooper Country
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Golf in Santee Cooper Country may well be one of the best kept secrets of the sunbelt. Lovers of the game are well pleased with the variety of courses in the area. Within a 45 minute drive of Santee, golfers can play 15, 18 holes courses.
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Santee Cooper Country is one of 11 regional tourism commissions in the state. Shriner, a past president of the S.C. Association of Tourism regions, says each commission tries to do what she calls "whole-state selling."
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Santee Cooper Country, a five county region (Berkeley, Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg & Sumter) offers museums, parks, flower gardens, plantation homes, nature trails, historic battle grounds, & river tours. Within a 45 minute drive of Santee, golfers can play at over 10+ courses. Two lakes (Marion / Moultrie), two rivers, two canals, vast swamp, & 171,000 acres of land covered by over six million gallons of water
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Santee Cooper Country routinely works with chambers of commerce and business associations, which, of course, share the mutual goals of advancing economic development and enhancing an area's quality of life. Shriner ... works with the S.C. Nature Based Tourism Association.
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The nearby Santee State Park is leased by Santee Cooper to S.C. PRT. The Santee National Wildlife Refuge, which has limited public access, draws hikers, bikers and bird-watchers to its thousands of acres. The bikers are typically not of the motorized variety.
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Santee-Cooper Resort's two courses, and the collection of other tracks in Manning, Sumter, and Orangeburg that make up this often overlooked golf destination may not be able to compete with Myrtle Beach on quantity and quality. But when it comes to price, the Santee region is pulling golfers in hand over fist from all parts of the Midwest and Northeast.
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