Today, the club hosts the annual Azalea Invitational each spring
Folks climb on a flag-draped car in front of the similarly bedecked Belvidere Plantation house in this photograph taken by Morton Brailsford Paine during the Charleston Country Club’s 1916 golf championship, which coincided with May Day festivities. Originally known as the Chicora Golf Club, the organization purchased the former plantation property near Magnolia Cemetery in 1901, refurbishing the main living quarters as their clubhouse and developing a nine-hole golf course that would become a top tournament destination. By 1922, the Country Club of Charleston acquired its present location consisting of 900 acres along the Ashley River on James Island, where it hosts the annual Azalea Invitational tournament every spring.
