With "going green" becoming more of a national theme, Golf Digest has recognized four golf resorts - including South Carolina's Kiawah Island Resort - with its Green Star Awards for protecting the environment. The magazine's November issue cites Kiawah's preservation of sand dunes, marshlands, maritime forests and wildlife, as well as the resort's Ocean Course for its drainage-recapture system, which prevents runoff into adjacent wetlands. Recycling at the resort, overseen by Scott Fister, includes cans and bottles, tires and wooden pallets, paper products, tennis balls and fluorescent bulbs. After island oyster roasts, the oyster shells are collected and returned to oyster beds to enhance breeding, the magazine wrote. Even island cooking is eco-friendly: chefs serve local fish and shrimp when possible while removing from menus fish that are considered endangered. Golfers have seen the result of the Ocean Course being re-grassed with paspalum, a strain of turf that thrives on brackish water, cutting the use of fresh water. Results were such that the resort is considering paspalum for its Osprey Point course, the only resort course that uses well water rather than treated effluent.

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