Written by Palmetto Bluff
Apr 11, 2025
Where are you from?
Randy: We’re both from Manning, South Carolina. We met in high school.
Carole Anne: We were high school sweethearts!
Randy: In 2013, we moved to St. Louis and were there for over seven years.
How did you make it back to South Carolina?
Randy: We moved back to South Carolina in 2020. We were living in Columbia but Sage was taking golf lessons on Hilton Head so we were driving back and forth every six weeks. We were here one weekend and Sage said to me, Dad if you can work from anywhere, why wouldn’t we live here? That’s really what sparked the conversation. That was July of 2021. We didn’t want to move the kids again, it felt so unfair. But they love it here. Somehow Christian Academy [in Bluffton] was able to fit them in for the 2021 school year and a couple months later we were shopping for houses!
How did you find Palmetto Bluff?
Carole Anne: This was the first community we looked at. It became our standard. Everywhere else we went, we kept comparing it to Palmetto Bluff.
Randy: The housing market was crazy at the time. We looked at so many houses, but we knew we wanted to be in Bluffton. We ended up buying this house in February 2022, and then we did some small remodels so we actually didn’t move in until the last week of May.
Carole Anne: Sage conveniently sprained his ankle the day we moved in.
Sage: And the PGA championship was that weekend, so it was perfect.
How serious are you about golf, Sage?
Sage: I’ve always played a lot, but I didn’t really take it seriously until we moved back to South Carolina. We lived on a golf course in Columbia but moving here made it ten times better. Everything is top notch and I practice every day. It’s exciting because I can do everything that any tour player can do here. I want to play professionally.
Randy: He takes full advantage of the golf courses. He has great mentors. And the same for Tyson! She has a horse at Longfield Stables and is at the barn multiple times a week.
Tell me about that, Tyson!
Tyson: I actually started riding at a horse camp with PBGO. Wren Oliver was going and my mom signed me up. I loved it and I’ve been riding ever since. I got my horse, Ireland, in May, and I ride Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday.
Carole Anne: And Wren Oliver has gotten really into PBGO.
Wren Oliver: I just did an archeology workshop and it was really fun. We got to make pottery and they showed us real artifacts. And they even told us about the ginormous sloths [that used to live here]. I want to be an archeologist!
What is it like living here?
Randy: We’re at that age now where our kids are kind of dictating our schedule.
Carole Anne: We can expose them to so much here. And there are so many kind people that have taken an interest in our children. There’s a gentleman in the neighborhood who follows Sage and goes to his tournaments. And Tyson met a couple that come to her horse shows. And she’s so close with Ms. Sophie, her trainer.
Sage: This community is special because you can find people that like being around you and spending time with you.
What a fun place to be a kid!
Randy: Our children love living here so much that when we go on vacation, they want to leave early and come home. I’m not making this up.
Carole Anne: Good places, too!
Randy: We were in the Bahamas and Sage was ready to come home.
Carole Anne: It’s so beautiful here. When we first moved in, we would say, Please don’t let us become numb to this beauty. We feel so fortunate.
