The Overview of Harbour Town Golf Links
One of three courses at South Carolina's Sea Pines Resort - Heron Point and the Ocean Course are the other two - the internationally famous Harbour Town Links at Hilton Head was designed by Pete Dye in consultation with Jack Nicklaus and opened in 1969.
Harbour Town Links was established as the permanent home of the rechartered oldest golf club in South Carolina and possibly the United States.
Formed in 1786 by Scottish merchants, the club, the South Carolina Golf Club, notably celebrated its 200th anniversary as golf's origin for South Carolinians in 1986.
Besides its historical significance, Harbour Town's championship Links course has won a mountain of awards, some of these being:
- Golf Digest Magazine's America's 100 Greatest Public and Private Golf Courses 2005-2006 and America's 100 Greatest Public-Access Golf Courses 2005-2006
- Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the US 2005, Top 100 Public-Access Golf Courses in America 2004 and Top 100 Holes in the World 2000
- Golfweek Magazine's America's Top 100 Modern (post-1960) Courses 2005
Home to the Verizon Heritage Tournament since 1969, this distinguished PGA Tour championship course places a premium on finesse, imagination, and shot-making rather than brute strength and power
Here you can bring your golf clubs and put your game to the ultimate test against a collection of par-threes ranking among the world's finest and a par-four 18th hole considered to be one of the most feared in all of golf - particularly when the wind is blowing off Calibogue Sound.
Measuring 6,973 yards off the Heritage tees, with a slope of 146 and a par of 71, Harbour Town is currently ranked No 1 in South Carolina by Golf Magazine and down the years has attracted such legends as Nicklaus, Palmer, Greg Norman, and Davis Love III.
OTHER FACILITIES OFFERED BY THE RESORT
Apart from golf, some of the other facilities offered by Sea Pines, a 5,000-acre resort located on the southern tip of Hilton Head Island, a peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and the Calibogue Sound in South Carolina, include:
- A Racquet Club ranked among the finest resort tennis facilities in the world
- Five miles of pristine beaches
- Twenty miles of bike trails and nature paths
- 605 acres of Forest Preserve
- More than 500 suites, villas and beach houses
- Two conference centers
- The Lawton Stables Equestrian Center
- The world-famous Harbour Town Yacht Basin, which is home to the acclaimed,candy cane-striped Harbour Town Lighthouse.
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