Hilton Head Golf

Known world-wide for our greens we still get the question “Do you have good golf in Hilton Head?” Come see for yourself why Hilton Head made Golf Digest number ten of its list of Best Golf Resorts. As if our marsh and ocean views aren’t enough to beautify a sport, the flat terrain that is the Low country adds even more beauty to the golfing experience, rolling up and down at just the right places. You’ll find yourself never wanting to leave our PGA designed courses as you golf side by side our luxurious lagoons, through the protected forests, and around the salty marshes. So practice your swing and pack up your clubs because Hilton Head is sure to become a ‘must visit’ for all you golfers out there!

Our very own Southern Hospitality Pass provides you with one free round of golf per day of your stay from the famous Heritage Collection of Hilton Head Island. Choose from four different clubs and seven different courses!

Shipyard Golf Club features one and a half courses with a combined 27 holes. Mix and match between the twenty-seven holes of  three nine-hole courses and twenty-five water hazards to find your perfect course. Or if you’re a beginner feel free to play one nine-hole course! The Clipper course was designed in 1970 and is said to be the most difficult of the three nine-hole courses as it is most abundant in sand and water hazards. You must have a soft touch and much endurance to survive this game. Like the Clipper, the Galleon is a very long course. Galleon was also designed in 1970 and is the original course at Shipyard, swerving around oak and pine trees it requires very accurate shots and a steady hand. Brigantine is the third and final course at Shipyard, designed in 1982. This may be more your style if you specialize in the short game. If you keep your eyes open you’re likely to have an audience of gators sunbathing along the water hazards! Don’t forget that despite their only being three courses at Shipyard you can combine courses for up to 6,878 yards of green with a par of seventy-two!

Oyster Reef golf Club opened in 1982 with one of the most beautiful courses Hilton Head had ever seen. Rees Jones is the man behind the madness who created a noticeably wonderful golf course, being recognized for its location and layout. With eighteen holes, the backdrop of Port Royal Sound, and over 7,000 yards from the championship tees it’s no wonder Oyster Reef Golf Club is called home to one of the most spectacular golf clubs on the island!

The Port Royal Golf Club offers three eighteen-hole courses that will really challenge your skills. Each course was designed by someone different bringing variety and allowing you to keep things interesting from course to course. Barony was one of the first courses on the island having been designed in the early 1960s, but with their newly resurfaced Bermuda greens it’s as prestigious as ever. At first look, Barony seems like a relatively open course, but as you look closer you come to realize it proves to be much more difficult. This is a course where accuracy is key! Planters Row is the clubs newest course and was built in 1984. It has water on ten of the eighteen holes and has narrow fairways lined with trees providing a challenging course for golfers of all skill levels. Robbers Row, designed in 1967 and redesigned in 1994, is very scenic and on the marsh side of Port Royal Plantation. The course is littered with historical markers and is built on Civil War grounds! Throughout the course you’ll find information on the civil war which took place on the island making this course not just for the golfer but for the historian in you as well.

Palmetto Hall Plantation features two courses of eighteen holes each. Recognized for its environmental quality for conserving natural resources and providing wildlife habitats this club is sure to provide very scenic cart paths. Arthurs Hills Course has received a four star rating since its opening in 1991. It is heavily wooded with majestic pine trees and oaks adorned in Spanish moss. The eighteenth hole of this course with a par- four was named one of 2008-2009’s top eighteen holes in the Low Country! Robert Cupp was named Architect of the Year by Golf World when he opened his course in 1993. The Robert Cupp course provides a challenge for even the most experienced golfer, though will compensate for those not as skilled with a high handicap.

If the Heritage Collection Golf Courses alone don’t quench your need for the ultimate golf getaway then don’t sweat it. Hilton Head offers numerous golf courses for people of all skill levels.

The Country Club of Hilton Head opened in 1987 and since then has been highly regarded not just on Hilton Head but as well as in the national golfing community. With nearly 7,000 yards and a slope rating of 132 from the tips it’s actually playable for most golfers. Many challenges await a golfer on this course including elevated greens and intracoastal waterways!

Indigo Run presents the Golden Bear Golf Course, designed by Jack Nichlaus and named one of the top rated layouts on an island of top-flight designs. This course focuses its energy on challenging a golfer on their strategy with its many water hazards and sand traps. It has over 7,000 yards from the tip allowing you to really rip with your drivers. Be careful though as balls are prone to getting lost in the numerous ponds and marshes.

Palmetto Dunes Resort offers several golf courses mid island. The first endures the designs of Arthur Hill in Palmetto Dunes Resort’s own Arthur Hills Course. Hills designed the course specific to the terrain of natural dunes and placement of palmetto trees creating not just a course that offers a challenge, but a course that offers of 6,651 yards and eighteen holes of beautiful Hilton Heads best landscaping.

The Fazio Course at Palmetto Dunes Resort has one of the lowest pars around at only seventy pars for all eighteen holes. Originally the course was opened in 1974 and then reopened in 1994 after some major renovations and is now in excellent condition. The 6,873 yard course has a slope rating of 132, and only has two par five holes. It is otherwise heavily matted with par four holes providing a test for skilled golfers at every tee-off.

Palmettos Dunes Resorts oldest course is the Robert Trent Jones Course, which was built in 1969. The course is tree-lined and varies from calm and easy spots to places where bad shots corrupt scores. Good golfers find their niche in this mid-level course offering great practice.

Sea Pines Resort offers three breathtaking golf courses skillfully designed to challenge golfers to their highest potential. Harbour Town Golf Links was designed as a joint effort by Jack Nicklaus and Pete Dye who finished it off in 2000. Almost immediately Pete Dye was listed as one of the most wanted architects around following the completion of this course, it’s easy to see why as the course offers challenges of water hazards and small greens on most every hole. Not to mention the view of Harbour Town from the eighteenth hole.

Heron Point, previously known as Sea Marsh, was redesigned by Pete Dye and reopened in 2007 as Heron Point. A multi-million dollar renovation proves that Heron Point is going to do nothing short of wow you with its reshaped fairways and shifting elevations. Sand, mulch, limestone, and an assortment of grasses offers an array of color changing surfaces on its 7,103 yard layout where most holes taunt you with water, trees, doglegs and other obstacles.

Sea Pines Resort’s third and final course is Ocean Course. It is one of the oldest courses on Hilton Head, designed by Geroge Cobb in 1962. PGA Tour Player Mark McCumber renovated the course in 1996 with a slight fade per his play. Marshes and lagoons are prevalent in twelve holes and the fifteenth and sixteenth provide a glimpse of the Atlantic.