I will take a little poke at this, just trying to answer some questions I saw. But this is my disclaimer, I do not know any of this to be exactly the facts, only what I think I may have heard from my years down here.
From what I understand this Star Fort was a historical structure that once stood somewhere around this general area of Lake Greenwood, but must have subsequently been destroyed. I believe some famous battles took place there if you are into that stuff. There are some battlefield parks (off limits to buiild a golf course on I would assume) nearby. But I believe the people here have tried to recreate as historically accurate as possible what is believed stood on or near this property at one time.
Someone mentioned in a few posts ago that what you see in the aeriel is confusing. Yes I agree, I have seen this in its raw state, and I was a little confused when I saw the aerial picture. What you see is a complex that all part of the overall clubhouse complex. The ramparts are used for the 1st tee (bottom right) and 10th tees (Top). Then the 18th green plays up to an area that I think is at the top right of the aerial picture that is kind of where another rampart of the Star would have been, but it is gone (presumably destroyed). So it really is not in the line of play of the holes. The ruins (buildings) again are backdrops on a couple shots, but are never in the line of play of any hole.
I find to to be an interesting concept, and I look forward to the course opening and playing it so that I can make an more educated decision as to whether I think it is a good golf course or not. I will not pre-judge based on a air-brushed publicity aerial. What I saw on the ground, albiet very raw in places looked good.
Again for anyone getting heartburn by thinking that you are putting "through the clowns mouth" as someone put it. I think you can rest assured. What you have is a very small area of the course intended to be the center of club activity and then the course meanders out on the property and has no connection to "riuns" or anything involving artifacts, etc. And if it is a good golf course then it is a good golf course.
Personally I think what I saw of the central gathering point involving the runis looked pretty cool. I could see myself sitting out having a couple of pints on a cool Carolina evening with a fire going in one of the fireplaces in the "ruins" of the building wall, watching my fellow club members playing in on 18 down below. But hey thats me, it might be that the thought of a pint and a fireplace might remind me of a cool evening I once spent sitting outside an "Authentic British Pub" right off the first tee of an "Authentic Links course" that some here seem to think is above average. Oh wait a minute that was in Oregon not the UK. But how can that be? That's OK though I am sure that the "Authentic British Pub" and other buildings were probably there well before the golf course was so that makes it OK. It is neat how Bandon Dunes resort was able to find those historic buildings, and route the course perfectly so as to incorporate those "Authentic British buildings" into the flow of the course perfectly at the 1st and 18th holes. Now if they would have "Built" those buildings when they built the course so as to give one a false sense that you were in a british setting that would be cheesy, but we all know that it is not or it never would have gotten the credit that it has on here.
Again I am not affiliated with The Patriot in any way, however I also hate to see a course get unfairly trashed by people who have never been there, and are basing their thoughts on a admitedly gaudy colored touched-up aerial photo taken probably quite early in the construction for the purposes of marketing folks.