Broomsedge Golf Club

Broomsedge Golf Club is a boldly conceived private course in the South Carolina Sandhills, designed by Kyle Franz and Mike Koprowski and opened in October 2024. The layout features 20 distinct green sites across 18 holes, allowing for continual variation in routing and strategy, and sprawls across ridgelines, valleys, and plateaus in the heart of Sumter County. Golf Digest named it one of the Best New Private Courses in America in 2025.

Broomsedge Golf Club in Rembert, South Carolina, represents among the distinctive and celebrated new additions to the American golf landscape in recent memory. The course debuted to members in October 2024 on a 2,500-acre property in Kershaw County, situated on the same sandy Sandhills belt that runs through the Carolinas and underlies the Pinehurst golf complex approximately two hours to the north in North Carolina. That geological connection proved foundational to the design philosophy that shaped the course. The club's creation is a story of unconventional ambition. Mike Koprowski, a first-time club developer then in his early forties, came to golf course development through an unlikely path — an Air Force veteran who had spent years as a policy analyst in Washington before redirecting his energies toward golf.

Koprowski found the Rembert property, financed its purchase through a VA loan, and assembled a design partnership with architect Kyle Franz that would produce a course of genuine national significance. Franz had spent years as a designer and shaper, including formative work on Pacific Dunes at Bandon, Oregon — one of America's most admired modern links designs — and brought the kind of design intelligence rooted in practical shaping experience that Koprowski's property demanded. Franz and Koprowski drew their primary design inspiration from three architects of the Golden Age: Donald Ross, George Crump of Pine Valley fame, and George Thomas, the designer of Riviera and Bel-Air in Los Angeles. Those influences are evident in Broomsedge's commitment to strategic complexity over visual spectacle, ground game interest over aerial distance, and green complex design that rewards careful reading and precise execution rather than simply punishing imprecision. The result is a course that rewards multiple rounds of engagement — each visit revealing new strategic possibilities that a single round cannot fully exhaust.

The layout plays to a par of 70 at 7,501 yards from the back tees — unconventionally long for a par-70, creating a distinctive distance distribution among the course's par-4s that generates genuine variety across the round. Broad fairways lead to massive, undulating, and steeply sloping green complexes featuring more than 150 sand bunkers distributed throughout the course. Only two water features interrupt the sandy, ground-game-friendly terrain — a deliberate philosophical choice that distinguishes Broomsedge from the water-heavy designs common to South Carolina's coastal regions. The course features 20 distinct green sites across 18 holes, allowing for alternate routings and cross-country play that extend the strategic vocabulary well beyond what a single set of pins can express. The design rewards members who learn the course deeply enough to navigate its alternate options, creating the kind of club where the most engaged players find genuine depth rather than exhausting the course's strategic possibilities after a season of play.

Golf Digest recognized Broomsedge as one of its Best New Private Golf Courses of 2025, a rapid-fire acknowledgment of quality that typically requires years of play history and critical observation to achieve. The distinction placed Broomsedge in the company of the most celebrated recent American courses, confirming that Koprowski and Franz had produced something of genuine lasting merit on the Kershaw County Sandhills. Broomsedge operates under a membership model that emphasizes the British private club tradition — unpretentious, golf-focused, and organized around the game rather than residential real estate or extensive social amenity. That philosophy, combined with the course's architectural integrity, creates an experience that serious golfers in the Carolinas and beyond have traveled considerable distances to access since the October 2024 opening.