Sullivan's Island Magazine Summer/Fall 2018

19 www.SullivansIslandMagazine.com | www.SullivansIslandHomes.com Finding the Forgotten Fairway By John Torsiello I f you are near Fort Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island one evening and think you see a shadowy figure swinging a golf club near the ocean, don’t be overly alarmed. It may be the ghost of one of the soldiers stationed at the fort during World War II. You see, we have dug up some interesting information about there being a golf course during the war that was apparently located on land near the ocean by the present-day Sand Dunes Club, which served as an officers’ club during the war. It appears that few, if anyone, actually remember the golf course. It likely wasn’t there that long – perhaps abandoned right after the war. But an interesting piece of information dug up by Hal Coste, Sullivan’s Island resident and keeper of the island’s cultural and historical flames, showed us a letter that gives credence to the existence of the course. A “Golf Notice” dated March 4, 1941, eight months and a few days before the Golfers Once Took a Swing on Sullivan’s Island Back when there was a golf course on Sullivan’s Island, this versatile tool is what greenskeepers used to place holes on greens. Photos cour tesy of Hal Coste.