Is There a Better Mens Locker Room Than Kiawah Island Club?
Ryan Berger breaks down his college crew's annual golf trip — a group that met as freshmen in 1998 — and their 2024 run to Kiawah Island, South Carolina. Cougar Point plus two private courses, a private chef at the rental, a 'fat guys vs skinny guys' competition, and dinner inside a country club's men's locker room.
- Guest
- Ryan Berger
- Destination
- Kiawah Island Club & Cougar Point, Kiawah Island, South Carolina
- Location
- SC
The Setup
Ryan Berger joins the pod to tell the story of his college crew’s annual golf trip — a group of guys who met as freshmen back in 1998 and have kept the tradition alive ever since. In 2024, they pointed it at Kiawah Island, South Carolina, and it turned into one for the books.
The Format
Ryan breaks down how an unofficial “golf trip committee” plans the whole thing — courses, Airbnbs, the works — and why they timed this one around NFL Draft weekend. The crew played Cougar Point plus two private courses at Kiawah Island Club, had a private chef cook at the rental house, and split into “fat guys vs skinny guys” for a team competition that delivered exactly the chaos you’d expect.
The Hot Takes
- Dinner inside a private country club’s men’s locker room — yes, really
- Cougar Point and the two private tracks at Kiawah Island Club
- The caddy experience at Kiawah
- Travel logistics: flying into Charlotte and driving down
- Crew dynamics across the married, single, and divorced guys
- Ryan’s incredible hole-in-one witness story from Monarch Beach
The Run-It-Back
We close with the Sick Score and host FOMO ratings — where a 25-years-deep college tradition lands, and what keeps a crew booking the same trip year after year. After a run like the Kiawah one, the run-it-back question mostly answers itself.