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Harbour Town Golf Links: Hilton Head
built 349 days ago
Harbour Town: Located down the South Carolina coastline from Charleston on Hilton Head Island, this is a classic and unique links course. At 6,896 yards this par-71 layout, designed by Pete Dye is relatively short. But Mr. Dye added some special effects to the elements of water, wind and jagged swampy shoreline. Sprawling bunkers in multiple shapes are dispersed judiciously throughout and rimmed with sawed-off railroad ties and telephone poles. All four par-3's are imaginative if not long. Three of them involve carries over water to shallow greens making correct club selection a necessity. The other is a deep, narrow green encircled by sand and protected by overhanging trees.
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Harbour Town generated instant international headlines when Arnold Palmer won the first Heritage tournament upon the course opening in 1969. Dye’s tight fairways, small greens, and pot bunkering represented a radical shift in design philosophies at the time and has since been regarded as a turning point in modern American golf course architecture. Sage Valley was designed by Tom Fazio, one of Dye’s peers on the highest tier of course design.
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The 2007 Verizon Heritage takes place April 9th through the 15th at Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Island. Sponsorship packages have sold out... there is a limited number of clubhouse badges, grounds badges, and Heritage Daily Ticket packages still available. Individual badges are quickly selling out. Anyone interested in attending the tournament should purchase tickets as soon as possible. Don’t miss one of Hilton Head Island’s best experiences. If you tire of watching golf there are plenty of other activities to keep you interested such as shopping, people watching and enjoying the spectacular scenery.
Harbour Town Light House may well be the most unforgettable sight at Harbour Town, a marina and village located in Hilton Head Island's Sea Pines Resort. In a planned resort community with strict height restrictions on buildings, Harbour Town Light House is a real standout...in more ways than one. It measures 93 feet from top to bottom. Harbour Town Light House ... boasts a striking appearance, thanks to the red and white stripes that encircle it.
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The Harbour Town Yacht Basin ... has many charter boats for fishing, sailing or just cruising the beautiful waters around Hilton Head. Parasailing and dolphin tours that are offered daily. Don’t miss the climb to the top of the candy-striped lighthouse to enjoy panoramic views of this vacation paradise. The Sea Pines Beach Club is an easy bike ride or trolley ride (seasonal) away. In addition to all that Harbour Town has to offer, you can enjoy miles of bike path, three championship golf courses, two world-class tennis centers, riding stables and 650-acre forest preserve.
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John Farrell, Harbour Town's Head Golf Professional, says it's exactly the target nature that makes the course play so difficult. "You have to be real precise with your iron play to score well here, and you'd better be able to drive it to a certain part of the fairway to set up your next shot. It's a real position golf course that favors accuracy over brawn, and that's why so many tour players like it."
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