Sports in South Carolina

[13] The Grand Strand and Hilton Head areas are both ranked in the top four locations in the country in golf courses per capita.

A government survey from 2000 found that South Carolina had the seventh most surfers of any state in the nation.

Both South Carolina's and Clemson's baseball teams are consistently ranked, with the Gamecocks winning the national title in 2010 and 2011.

The Tigers additionally have an ice hockey team that competes at club level in the South Division of the Atlantic Coastal Conference.

The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers are the state's newest FBS program, having completed a transition from the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) in 2018.

Coastal, whose baseball team won the College World Series in 2016, joined the Sun Belt Conference for non-football sports the day after it won the CWS, joined Sun Belt football in 2017, and became full FBS members in 2018.

In addition, the Panthers played their first season in Clemson, and maintain training facilities at Wofford College in Spartanburg.

The Greenville Drive plays in the High-A South Atlantic League, and the Augusta GreenJackets (in North Augusta), Charleston RiverDogs, Columbia Fireflies, and Myrtle Beach Pelicans play in the Low-A Carolina League.

[22] The team plays in the soccer-specific Patriots Point Soccer Complex, located in Mount Pleasant.

Greenville Triumph SC are members of USL League One, a step below the Championship in the third division, and played their inaugural season in 2019.

Darlington Raceway plays host to NASCAR's Labor Day weekend classic, the Southern 500.

With a long coast line, South Carolina has many different beach activities such as surfing, boogie boarding, deep sea fishing, and shrimping.

The Upstate of South Carolina also offers outstanding water activities, especially in Lakes Hartwell, Jocassee, and Keowee.

The Midlands region also offers water-based recreation revolving around Lakes Marion and Murray and such rivers as the Congaree, Saluda, Broad, and Edisto, including water skiing and swimming.