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Cotton Dike at Dataw Island Golf Course is an 18-hole private course in Saint Helena Island, South Carolina.

Designed by Tom Fazio and Arthur Hills. It plays 6,787 yards from the Black tees, rated 72.9/136 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
72
par
6,787
yards (tips)
136
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES309163489344168398620356430402359183533466452187432558142335445364758494104114123135144154163174185PAROUT 3,277 YDSIN 3,572 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer
Tom Fazio and Arthur Hills reported
access
private
address
Saint Helena Island, SC
phone
843-838-3838
elevation
22 ft derived
opened
1985
on site
driving range · restaurant · lessons

32.43277, -80.58347 — open on OpenStreetMap →

From above

Aerial imagery of the area around Cotton Dike at Dataw Island Golf Course. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it, and the frame follows the course's location rather than a surveyed property line.

Aerial imagery of the area around Cotton Dike at Dataw Island Golf Course, NAIP 2023. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it.

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Aerial imagery of the area around Cotton Dike at Dataw Island Golf Course, NAIP 2023. None of its holes has been traced yet, so nothing is drawn over it. The map itself needs JavaScript.

Aerial imagery only, nothing traced over it yet · USDA NAIP 2023-04-18

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 4 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 4 rows.

BlackM726787contested684972.913632773572
GoldM72621970.313029303256
BlueM72570768.111826733021
WhiteF725091contested497169.112023802591

Every figure as published except Card yards (derived), which is summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Black and White tees publish a yardage total the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 435434544443544345 72
Black 309163489344168398620356430402359183533466452187432558 6,787
Gold 296134471306150381477326389369342168506389417155401509 6,219
Blue 257115430289125353465297342339324154492364397141354456 5,707
White 23496395257108302409258321313281126431300298109316417 5,091
Handicap 161881410261241113173711559

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Cotton Dike at Dataw Island Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard, but nobody has traced its holes: the bunkers, water and fairway edges a plan aims around.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

  • The approach, planned A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

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Book nearby

Cotton Dike at Dataw Island Golf Course states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Olde Beaufort Golf Club (3.9 mi, semi-private) · The Landing at Pleasant Point (6.3 mi, semi-private) · The Legends Golf Course (10 mi, public)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

FigureThis courseIn South CarolinaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,787 yds178th of 351=3,625th of 12,025=1,269th of 2,954 private courses · =3,600th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 136=109th of 227=1,956th of 8,710=871st of 2,300 private courses · =1,911th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 72.9=124th of 215=2,810th of 7,615=1,136th of 2,143 private courses · =2,785th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,696 yds between tees210th of 345=4,140th of 11,523=1,218th of 2,885 private courses · =4,079th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1985116th of 253=5,732nd of 9,368=1,689th of 2,418 private courses · =4,084th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level22 ft derived =245th of 374=11,347th of 12,437=2,720th of 3,026 private courses · =8,235th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

What's on this page

In progress2 of 6 built

2 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 4 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 4 sets of tees.
  • Course map, not built yet.We don't have a map of this course yet.
  • Per-hole distances, not built yet.The holes aren't traced yet, so there are no measured carries or distances to the green.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold a street address and the grass on the greens.

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Sources

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Olde Beaufort Golf Club

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Secession Golf Club

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The Landing at Pleasant Point

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Ocean Creek Golf Course

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Ocean Creek at Fripp Island Resort

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The Legends Golf Course

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The Legends Golf Course at Parris Island

10 mi · Parris Island · military · 18 holes

Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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