Writer Bethany Lyttle captures the essence of Palmetto Bluff in today's edition of the NY Times. Read the story, "Challenging the Planned Community Stereotype."

A multi-media slideshow accompanies the story.

Earlier this week, the South Carolina Golf Course Ratings Panel ranked May River Golf Course #4 in the state and Palmetto Bluff as the #3 Best “Stay and Play Resort.” The panel consists of 125 judges that evaluated the course in seven categories: route, variety, strategy, equity, memorability, aesthetics and experience. Take a virtual tour of May River Golf Course.

Well-respected golf writer Brian McCallen touts May River Golf Course as "a lovely stroll through nature."

A scant 15 miles as the crow flies from Harbour Town Golf Links, the low-profile layout on Hilton Head Island where Jack Nicklaus got his feet wet as a designer in 1969, is the sleepy little town of Bluffton, S.C. On its outskirts is a 20,000-acre coastal preserve that extends from the headwaters of the May River to Bull and Daufuskie islands via the Cooper River, the land eventually giving way to the freshwater rice fields of the New River. It is on this land mass, touched by three rivers and thus a sea island in the truest sense, that a stylish resort and residential community called Palmetto Bluff debuted in 2004.

Read Palmetto Bluff: Highlight of the Lowcountry