For too long, Charlotte metro has lacked world-class, architecturally significant public courses, and the recent golf boom in the region has been almost exclusively within the private and resort space. We’re working to change this! More to come soon.

👀👀👀 No. 1

We show a lot of the land. The dirt. The equipment. The construction progress. And that’s because watching something get built from nothing is genuinely exciting to us and for all our future guests to see. But over the next few weeks, I want to start highlighting the people actually making this thing happen. Because Candyroot doesn’t exist without them. First up: Carson Shaw. Carson is our Golf Course Superintendent and — more importantly — he was our very first full-time hire. A Statesville, NC kid who studied at NC State and went on to work at Quail Hollow — one of the most respected clubs in the country and host of major championships. He could have gone a lot of directions from there but chose to bet on something brand new instead. Right now, during grow-in season, his job is everything. Growing grass on a golf course is both science and patience. You’re managing soil, water, seed, weather, and time — and the margin for error is real. Carson is locked in. But that title also means something different at a startup than it does at an established club. It doesn’t mean you clock in, do your job, and go home. It means you show up every day to a place that doesn’t fully exist yet, figure out what needs to get done, and do it — whether it’s in your job description or not. For Carson, that’s meant leading media walkthroughs, being present for investor visits, handling the hundred small things that don’t have an owner yet, and he’s doing all of it with an attitude and work ethic that sets the tone for everyone who comes after him. This is what building looks like. Dirt and equipment, yes. But mostly people like Carson. 🌱

🏝️🚜🪵>>>🌿🍃🌱>>>🏌️🏌️‍♀️⛳️

The greens have been laid

Over the last four years, South Carolina has become the epicenter for inventive new golf course design. 🔥 Here's why: glfdig.st/Y3si50Z8rzS

Few photos of our irrigation plans I took on my last visit and found interesting

🌱🌱🌱 Day by day. Acre by acre. Inch by inch.

Doing a research and development trip to Bandon. Other than golf, what should I pay attention to? What do they do really well? What can we do even better?

I guess two greens on 13 is becoming a Koprowski thing @BroomsedgeGolf

Beach Sand. 100 miles from the coast. Course 2 loading…..

View from 12 green

Two stellar course architects… Wait til we announce the next one

Some exciting news from @candyrootlodge: @MichelleWieWest is designing her first golf course—a short course with par 4s and par 5s under the lights—at the new public destination outside Charlotte and Columbia, South Carolina. More details here: golfdigest.com/story/candyro…

And Koprowski said let there be grass

Should we do a preview play drop for all the tee times in 2026?