Palmetto Golf Club was formed by Thomas Hitchcock of New York and Long Island’s William C. Whitney, a wealthy industrialist who also trained and raced horses, which was his connection to Aiken.

Oct. 6—Did you hear a large, collective sigh of relief last weekend? It might have been from all the ladies who had to put up with golfers who didn't have access to Palmetto Golf Club for five ...

Palmetto Golf Club celebrates its 128th birthday this year, and the venerable course shows no signs of age. Indeed, the Aiken treasure might be better and more challenging than ever.

Palmetto Golf Club pro emeritus Tom Moore, right, with Palmetto head professional and general manager Brooks Blackburn, has been an institution at Palmetto since he was hired in 1982. (Kyle Dawson ...

Nobody will confuse Palmetto Golf Club with the Blue Monster or even Crandon Park. But what you do get at Palmetto is a sense of welcome and belonging. It continues throughout the course and into the ...

And Palmetto. Palmetto Golf Club's par-3 seventh hole, the appropriately named "Ridge," checked in at No. 91 in Golf Digest's list of "America's 100 Greatest Golf Holes." ...