It seems as if it has been a long time coming, but Gary Player has finally, officially joined the rolls of the name designers commissioned by The Cliffs Communities to build its portfolio of golf courses, now numbering seven with the opening of Player’s Mountain Park in Travelers Rest. Located about 20 miles from city center in Greenville, SC, the links-like Player layout stretches along the North Saluda River and around a 12-acre lake that abuts the 11th and 12th holes. The Blue Ridge Mountains look down on the wooded valley that comprises the golf course. Jim Reichert, a Cliffs Communities golf club member and longtime reader of our Home On The Course newsletter (monthly and free, click here to subscribe), played the course shortly after its September 26 grand opening. Jim, who plays to a 4 handicap, puts a lot of stock in the fun quotient of a golf course, and he ranks the new Mountain Park highly in that regard. His favorite Cliffs course is Tom Fazio’s Vineyard layout along Lake Keowee, my own favorite by a wide measure over the other two Cliffs courses I’ve played.
