The journey to Williston Country Club begins at Columbia Metropolitan Airport, roughly an hour's drive south through the rolling farmland and pine corridors of South Carolina's Midlands. The route traces a quiet path along Highway 78, where the suburban sprawl of the capital gradually gives way to the unhurried rhythm of rural Aiken County. As you approach Williston - a small town tucked between Augusta and the Savannah River Site - the landscape softens into gentle swells of red clay and longleaf forest, the kind of unassuming countryside that has long sheltered understated Southern golf retreats far from the coastal spotlight.