Harbour Town Golf Links - South Carolina, U.S.A.

Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island is the inspired design of Pete Dye that in many ways came to define the modern school of golf Course architecture. When Dye designed the course in 1967, he was largely unknown outside his native Midwest, and his player consultant, Jack Nicklaus, was just getting started in the design business. Dye created small greens, Scottish-style pot bunkers, waste areas, and used railroad ties and telegraph poles as bulkheads for the hazards, all of which was very avant garde at the time, and represented a reaction to the designs of Robert Trent Jones, the leading American golf course architect. Harbour Town was a phenomenal Success and became the centerpiece of the Sea Pines Resort developed by Charles Fraser. In 1969, the PGA Tour started playing the Heritage Classic at Harbour Town, with the inaugural tournament won by Arnold Palmer. With the marsh and Calibogue Sound fronting the tee and running along the entire left side of the fairway, and the famous red and white candy-striped lighthouse of the Hilton Head marina behind the green, the 18th at Harbour Town is one of the great finishing holes in golf.

Haig Point Golf Club - South Carolina, U.S.A.

Haig Point Golf Club is a private course designed by Rees Jones on Daufuskie Island, which can only be reached by ferry across Calibogue Sound from Hilton Head. The demanding layout has a routing that alternates with rhythmic cadences between open holes that wend through immense live oaks festooned with Spanish moss, holes hemmed by forests and ponds, and forced carries across the tidal marsh along the sound, which comes into play on the par-three eighth and 17th holes. The clubhouse is the former Strachan mansion, which was built in 1910 on St. Simons Island, Georgia. The mansion was saved from destruction by the International Paper Company, the developer of Haig Point, and moved by barge 100 miles up the Intracoastal Waterway to Daufuskie.