The Cobblestone Park Clubhouse Is About to Host Something Bigger Than a Tee Time
August 27, 2026
August 27, 2026
Drive past the brick pillars on University Parkway most weekday afternoons and Cobblestone Park looks exactly like what the sign promises: a gated golf community with a course that disappears over rolling hills, a clubhouse veranda where a few members are finishing lunch, and golf carts parked in tidy rows. It is easy to assume the biggest thing that happens there is a Saturday scramble or a wedding reception on the lawn.
On Monday, August 31, that assumption gets tested. Cobblestone Golf Club is hosting the annual King Fore A Day Golf Tournament, a charity event that brings golfers from across the Midlands onto the same three nines that residents use for a casual nine holes after work. This year First Citizens Bank has signed on as presenting sponsor, and entry runs $150 per golfer, with proceeds going toward programs for veterans and their families. It is not a private members' outing. It is open registration, and it is the kind of event that turns a resident's Monday-morning coffee stop at the clubhouse into a conversation about something bigger than the leaderboard.
The tournament is the visible part. The part most Cobblestone Park residents never see is quieter and happens every week.
Cobblestone Golf Club hosts a standing adaptive golf clinic on Tuesday evenings from 5:30 to 6:30, run by the Range Fore Hope Foundation, a nonprofit built specifically around veterans, active-duty service members, and adaptive golfers. The foundation was started in 2018 by Alvin King, a retired U.S. Army First Sergeant, and its roots at Cobblestone go back to March 2022, when the club hosted the first-ever Fairways to Freedom charity tournament to raise the money that established an adaptive golf program on site. King was later recognized by the South Carolina House of Representatives as the state's first Veteran of the Year, in 2023.
This is King's description of what the foundation is actually doing, not fundraising language dressed up for a brochure:
At Range Fore Hope Foundation, we're not just swinging clubs, we're rebuilding lives. As a combat Veteran myself, I've seen firsthand how PTSD can shatter families.
One attendee, a disabled veteran, put it more simply: he called the range one of the few outdoor outlets he had found, and said the teaching professionals kept him coming back even when he wasn't sure his swing was improving.
That clinic runs at other Midlands courses too, on different nights: Fort Jackson on Mondays, LinRick on Wednesdays, the James E. Clyburn Golf Center on Thursdays. Cobblestone Park's slot is Tuesday. If you live inside the gates and have never noticed the group gathered near the range on a Tuesday evening, that is by design. Nobody is selling tickets to watch. It is simply a program that has quietly used a private community's amenity for four years running.
The Tuesday clinic is the steady drumbeat. Once a year, Cobblestone Park hosts the loudest version of the same mission.
The Palmetto State Adaptive Golf Open returns to the clubhouse this November, running November 13 through 15. It launched as South Carolina's first inclusive adaptive golf tournament, and the most recent staging drew a field where roughly a quarter of participants were veterans, alongside the first year junior athletes competed through a sponsorship from the National One Arm Golf Association. Spectators are welcome. So are volunteers, who help players navigate the same elevation changes that make the course a genuine test for able-bodied golfers.
Put the calendar together and a pattern emerges that a lot of neighbors have missed:
None of this requires a membership to witness. It requires knowing it is happening, which is the part the gates tend to obscure.
None of this changes what the clubhouse is the other 51 weeks of the year. Alexander's at Cobblestone Park still runs lunch service most days and dinner on Thursdays and Fridays, and the veranda, which seats up to 100, still looks out over the 18th hole and the lake that anchors the course's back nine. The menu leans toward comfortable rather than fussy: green mussels in a lemon-butter white wine sauce, fried green tomatoes, almond-crusted baked brie, a portobello mushroom melt for anyone skipping the golf entirely and just coming for the view.
The course itself has a pedigree that predates most of the homes around it. It opened in 1995 as the University Club, designed by P.B. Dye, son of the golf architect Pete Dye, and its three nines still carry the names Garnet, Black, and Gold in honor of the University of South Carolina, whose men's and women's golf teams still call it home. The clubhouse that anchors it all was finished in the fall of 2014, closing out years of construction delays that predate most current residents entirely.
So the picture is not one thing or the other. It is a community golf amenity with a wine list and a veranda, and it is also, on a rotating schedule that most residents never look up, a working site for one of the more active veterans' golf programs in the Midlands. Both things are true on the same 27 holes.
If you bought in Cobblestone Park for the golf course and the gated quiet, none of this changes your HOA dues or your view. What it changes is what your Monday coffee run at the clubhouse might overlap with, and what a Tuesday evening walk past the range might actually be. A neighborhood amenity built for members turns out to be doing quiet, sustained work for people who have never lived on Coogler Crossing Drive or anywhere near University Parkway. That is not a footnote. It is the kind of detail that tells you more about a place than another rehash of amenity lists ever could.
If you are weighing whether to volunteer on August 31, register a foursome, or just walk over and watch a Tuesday clinic, the Range Fore Hope Foundation posts registration and volunteer details directly on its website. No membership required, no invitation needed. Just a gate you have probably driven through a hundred times without knowing what was happening on the other side of it.
Whether you are settled in Cobblestone Park for the long haul or thinking about what comes next for your home here, it helps to have someone paying attention to the details that make this neighborhood what it is. That is the kind of local read Mackenzie brings to every conversation, on the course or off it. If you ever want to talk through what your home or your neighborhood is worth in today's market, Mackenzie Robertson is a call away.
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