On to the Back Nine

DeBordieu’s #10

Ok…..you’ve tallied up your score, stopped by the 19th Hole for a sandwich and your favorite beverage. You've got your second wind. You are ready to tackle DeBordieu’s back nine. C’mon now….you can ‘Dieu” this!

“Although it is a slight dogleg left and you will want to keep your drive to the right, beware of the stand of pines on that side which will block your approach shot, should you find your ball behind them. The fairway slopes devilishly downward toward the right, guiding your ball in the direction of the trees. The green is protected to the right and left front by the Dyes’ ever present bunkers.”

But wait,….there, right off the green….you see a small pink surveyor's ribbon, indicating that there is a lot for sale. You think to yourself, “Whoa….what a spectacular view I would have if I built a house right there!” And you would be right!

Click on one of these pictures for details on that great lot. Then email me at TroiKaz@DeBordieu.com, or call me 843-455-4523, and let’s go check it out!

To search all the great properties available at DeBordieu, visit the website at http://www.debordieu.com/.

There has never been a better time to consider a purchase at DeBordieu!

DeBordieu Colony is an oceanfront community located just south of Pawleys Island, South Carolina that features private golf and tennis, saltwater creek access to the ocean, a manned security gate, and luxury homes and villas surrounded by thousands of acres of wildlife and nature preserves.

Rub-a-dub TUB????? or Luxury Shower?

What's your preference?

As stated in an article in the Charlotte Observer today, many folks in the remodeling or building process are opting to do away with the over-sized whirlpool or garden tub and go with a luxury shower. That's true also with some homes at DeBordieu, but by in large, we find more Whirlpool Tub/Luxury Shower combos.

Pictured here are some of the Master Baths in homes currently on the market that feature Luxury Showers.

Click on the picture to get details and a virtual tour of the home. (It's very hard to capture the entire bathroom is just one shot.)

If you would like for me to send you links to homes that match your search parameters, please give me a call at 843-455-4523, or email me at TroiKaz@DeBordieu.com.

To browse the DeBordieu Website, visit www.DeBordieu.com.

To read the article in the Charlotte Observer, Click Here.

It's actually pretty amazing how many people from Charlotte, NC own 2nd homes at DeBordieu, or have moved here from Charlotte.

There has never been a better time to consider a purchase at DeBordieu!

Welcome to DeBordieu!

DeBordieu welcomes you to a private gated golf course community featuring luxury real estate as a primary home, second home or vacation property. If your dreams are of a place where nature is as protected as it is breathtaking and where a very private lifestyle of comfort, leisure and good taste flourishes, then DeBordieu may be the perfect place for you and your family.

Once through the private gates, just south of Pawleys Island, SC, you quickly realize you have entered a community that is completely dedicated to preserving the beautiful canvas nature has provided.

Elegant homes, exceptional amenities and some of South Carolina's most beautiful coastal scenery come together to set the framework for a community of exceptional standards.
The rhythm of the ocean. Gentle waves stirring cool ocean breezes. An egret poised on the banks of a peaceful marsh. A feeling of calm is inescapable. It is a pace that compliments the natural beauty of the 2,700 acres that are DeBordieu.
For generations, families have embraced this quietly tucked away community as a place to reconnect. From traditional oyster roasts, elegant dinner dances and Friday evening mixers to a wide variety of clubs and holiday festivities, social activities are designed to enhance DeBordieu's innate sense of community.

For selected properties that meet your search parameters, please contact me at TroiKaz@DeBordieu.com, or call 843-455-4523 and I will be delighted to send you links to properties that meet your needs.

To search the website, visit www.DeBordieu.com.

There has never been a better time to consider a purchase at DeBordieu.

Remember the Bagpipes on Hole #9?
The private DeBordieu Club Golf Course opened for play in 1987. I remember, like it was yesterday, seeing and hearing that bagpiper walk very slowly down hole number nine toward the crowd of eager DeBordieu Club members waiting to tee off. It was a great moment! You won’t hear the bagpipes today, but here’s what you can expect from hole #9:
“The Dyes require that you finish the first half of the course with a blind drive on this tricky par five. Knock your ball up onto the hill rising 13 feet from the lake level. Stay toward the right, away from a long finger of lake that runs along the left. Where it ends, a thick natural area begins. Keep your approach shot straight, for the left is guarded by mounds and pot bunkers, with bunkers on the right and behind the green.”

There is a great lot for sale on number nine. For details, click on the picture, email TroiKaz@DeBordieu.com, or call me at 843-455-4523.
There has never been a better time to consider a purchase at DeBordieu!

Busy Spring coming up for DeBordieu Golf!
Here’s a peek at the kinds of golf events that take place at DeBordieu Club, a private, oceanfront, golf community just south of Pawleys Island, SC. For membership and real estate information, email TroiKaz@DeBordieu.com, call 843-455-4523, or search the website at www.DeBordieu.com.

Ladies 9-Hole Invitational
Tuesday, March 15
10:00 a.m. Shotgun

2011 DMGA Edwin R. Wallace Derby
Thursday, March 24
Signup as twosomes!
Format: You will play a 9-hole qualifying match of "Net Better Ball of Partners" beginning at 10:00 a.m. After the morning 9 holes, the top 10 qualifying teams will be re-paired high to low for an afternoon match of true "Alternate Shot ". One team will be eliminated on each hole until a winner is determined.

2011 Opening Day Tournament
Saturday, March 26 - 8:00 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. Shotgun Starts
Format: Texas Scramble: 2 Best Nets of the Foursome. Teams consist of four players. Each player on the team will hit a drive. The team will select the best drive and each player will play his/her own ball from the selected drive until the ball is holed. The team will record the two best net scores on each hole. The team must use at least 2 drives from each player through the 18-hole match. Signup in the golfshop! To compete, Foursomes must be made up of DeBordieu Members or Dependent Members. Make your own foursome.

DLGA Spring Guest Day
Wednesday, March 30
9:00 a.m. Shotgun Start
Beach Music at the Dieu

Nine & Dine
Friday, April 8
4:00 p.m. Shotgun Start - Join us at the Beach Club following play.
Captain's Choice - Make your own foursome.

2011 Member-Member
Friday & Saturday, April 15 & 16
Tee Times: Friday 1:00 p.m. & Saturday 9:30 p.m. Shotgun Starts.
Open to all amateur DeBordieu Membership Holders and/or Dependents. Membership holder teams will have priority over Dependent teams should the event fill-up.
Format: 36 Hole Better Ball of Partners (Men's & Ladies' Gross and Net Divisions).
Handicap Allowance: Men 90%, Women 95%
Entry Fee: $50.00 Per Player plus golfing fees.
Tee Assignment: Ladies' Net and Gross division will play the Red tee. Men's Gross division will play from the Green tee. Men's Net division will play the Green or the Gold tee. (Men playing the Gold tee will lose 3 strokes from their Gold tee handicap).
Pairings: Choose your own partner, the golf shop will make the pairings based on team handicaps. On day 2 pairings will be based on the leaders in each division.
Prizes: Trophies will be awarded to 1st place in each division at the Winter Banquet.
Ties: Ties for 1st place in each division will be played off on the golf course.
Social: Friday Night: Following play, we will score the event and enjoy hors d'oeuvres in the clubhouse. Saturday Night: Spring Fling at the Pavilion (separate fee)

Easter Sweeps
Saturday, April 23 - Make Your Own Tee-Times
Format: Individual net skins at 80% handicap. Handicaps will also be adjusted based on tee selection. Entry Fee will be $10.00 with half going to Helping Hands of Georgetown. If no skins are won outright, all entries will be donated. Help support Helping Hands of Georgetown by playing in the sweeps or by calling the golf shop and making a donation through you club account. For more information on this charity: www.helpinghandsofgeorgetown.com
DLGA North/South
Tues.-Wed., May 3-4 - 9:00 a.m. Shotgun Start
Round 1 - Front Nine: Alternate Shot Match Play, Back Nine: Better Ball Match Play
Round 2 - 18 Holes: Individual Net Match Play
Sign-up in the Ladies' Locker-room!

DMGA Blue/Gray Cup
Thurs. & Fri., May 5-6 - 12:00 p.m. Shotgun Start
Day 1-Front Nine-Modified Alternate Shot, Back Nine-Better Ball
Day 2-Front Nine-Texas Scramble, Back Nine-Individual Match Play
Sign-up in the Golf shop
2011 Blue Heron Men's Member-Guest
Thursday thru Saturday, May 12-14
Mailers were sent out this week - Don't wait till the last minute. Get your entries in!
If you did not receive an entry they are available in the golf shop or on the DeBordieu Club website.

Each of the pictures on this page link to homesites that are available on the private DeBordieu Club Golf Course, so click on the picture and be linked to the information about the lot.

There has never been a better time to consider a purchase at DeBordieu.....particularly if you are interested in Private Golf.

Women's History Month Celebrated at DeBordieu

Women’s History Month — as declared in a proclamation by President Barack Obama — was recognized Thursday at a luncheon at DeBordieu Colony Clubhouse.

CLICK HERE to read all about it in the Georgetown Times Article.

For information about real estate at DeBordieu, search the website at www.DeBordieu.com, call Troi Kaz, 843-455-4523, or email TroiKaz@DeBordieu.com.

DeBordieu Club, #8
DeBordieu Club, just south of Pawleys Island, SC, features a championship 18-Hole golf course designed by Pete and P.B. Dye. Noted as one of Pete and P.B. Dyes favorite designs, the links style course at DeBordieu has been consistently ranked among the top 10 private clubs in South Carolina.
The golf course opened in 1987 and features an outstanding mix of Pete Dye's design qualities set in the beauty of the South Carolina Low Country and surrounded by an abundance of natural wildlife.
The highly regarded links course plays to more than 7,000 yards from the championship tees, and offers a set of tees to provide enjoyable golf for players of all abilities. The greens are planted in bent grass, the fairways are Bermuda, and the rough is Paspalum, all providing for an interesting round of golf!
Today's featured hole is #8. "This is another target golf hole, requiring golfers to put their tee shots on the long green or face several formidable perils. A lake borders the entire left side of the fairway and green. Depending upon tee placement, you may be required to cross a portion of it or none at all. The right side features soft mounding and two good-sized bunkers."
The arrow in the picture to the right points to a very interesting homesite with great views of the lakes on both #8 green and #9, and is located just a quick golf cart ride from DeBordieu's oceanfront Beach Club. Click on the picture for details.
To arrange a visit to DeBordieu, or a tour of the property, call Troi Kaz at 843-455-4523, or email: TroiKaz@DeBordieu.com.
There has never been a better time to consider a purchase at DeBordieu!

Here’s one way to stay young…
….Have your Master Bedroom Upstairs!
Some folks like them up because they want to be closer to their sleeping children.
Others like to have more, open, entertaining space downstairs.
But the number one reason people give me for loving their master bedroom upstairs is that climbing those stairs keeps them looking and feeling young!
If you’re one of those people, there are some very interesting properties on the market at DeBordieu that feature upstairs master suites. A couple of these also feature a bedroom on the main living level as well, which many baby boomers tell me they like to have for their aging parents who come to visit. Click on each of these pictures for details and virtual tours. For others, give me a call or shoot me an email, TroiKaz@DeBordieu.com.
DeBordieu Colony is an oceanfront community located just south of Pawleys Island, South Carolina featuring private golf and tennis, saltwater creek access to the ocean, a manned security gate, and luxury homes and villas surrounded by thousands of acres of wildlife and nature preserves.

There has never been a better time to consider a purchase at DeBordieu!

It’s been an interesting week. There is a whole lot of activity on the real estate front. So I was primed for my Bible Study on Psalm 127, which was, in part, about work. In the mean time, a wonderful, young man I used to work with at Wild Dunes (about 100 years ago) passed away this week after a battle with cancer. When I’m done writing this, I’ll be heading to his funeral in Charleston.

The Psalm 127 study got me thinking about my faith, if and how it is apparent in my work. I have been blessed with a few really great gifts and talents, and an absolutely beautiful place to use them, for which I am extremely grateful. It got me thinking whether or not I was giving back, doing the work that God has called me to do, not JUST sell real estate at DeBordieu.

And then I thought about Kris, my friend, who asked me many years ago to read the scripture at his wedding. I was honored then, to take part in the beginning of that next chapter in his life, but today, it means even more. What is it he and his bride saw in me, at the work place, even back then before I was “on fire,” that lead them to ask me to do those readings? So even though I haven’t had much contact with Kris and Jessica over the past few years, I consider it an honor to be there today, as he starts this next chapter of his journey in heaven.

I was reminded this week that PEOPLE are at the center of Christian work, even in the workplace. “We are called to do His work wherever we are.” According to Psalm 127, “If God doesn’t build the house, the builders only build shacks.” Amen.