A shotmaker’s favorite, this Arthur Hills course is one of the most distinctive layouts on Hilton Head Island. Golf Digest dubbed this course “The best of the three.” You be the judge! The course was rated four and a half stars by Golf Digest and is nestled within the quiet enclave of Leamington at Palmetto [...]

Arthur Hills Course at Palmetto Hall is the latest addition to The Heritage Collection of courses on Hilton Head Island, immersed in Southern elegance and natural beauty, and a must-play for every golfer. The Arthur Hills Course showcases Hills’ trademark undulating fairways, gracefully flowing across the naturally rolling contours of the low country. Most memorable [...]

While all four of the Barefoot courses are some of the best tracks in the area, and this one is one of the area’s best. Bordering the natural white sands of the Carolina Bays, this visually stunning Pete Dye design is filled with his infamous pitfalls for wayward shots that have become synonymous with the [...]

This course is not only the best tract at Barefoot, we think that it’s the best course in the area. The only problem there is the traffic noise from the six-lane highway running through the center of the project. It is routed through a spectacular piece of property. While the course does not return to [...]

Caledonia Golf and Fish Club, with their Champions Bermuda greens, remains as one of the area’s most impressive and award winning tracks. Caledonia is the ancient Roman name for Scotland, and was originally a rice plantation. It is a relatively short course, but it quickly gained a reputation as one of the premier courses in [...]

Originally named Marsh Point, Cougar Point was redesigned by Gary Player in 1996 and plays 6,875 yards. It features a great blend of short and long par-4s, great risk/reward par-5s and extremely scenic and challenging par-3s. Cougar Point’s long par-4s feature wide landing areas putting the driver in the player’s hands, and open-run-up areas in [...]

Designed by the “Open Doctor” Rees Jones and chosen as local qualifying site for the 1999 and 2005 U.S. Opens, the Country Club of Hilton Head sets itself apart with a variety of golf holes you might not expect to see in the Lowcountry. A challenging, but fair layout with five sets of tees, the [...]

Located minutes west of the bridge to Hilton Head, Crescent Pointe Golf Club is a world-class Arnold Palmer “Signature Course” situated on a spectacular piece of property that highlights the beauty of the Lowcountry. It’s Arnie’s only public-access course in the Hilton Head area, and it’s pure Palmer, with generous fairways, but challenging approaches to [...]

With faster A-1 bent grass greens and many reworked bunkers this classic, old style and previously highly over-rated course finally has something better to offer, and is getting better reviews. This tract was the site of the PGA Senior Tour Championships for four years, a Women’s U.S. Open and the finals of PGA Tour Qualifying [...]

Eagle’s Pointe Golf Club was designed by five-time Verizon Heritage champion Davis Love III. The hallmarks of Eagle’s Pointe are its classic risk-reward design, natural beauty, strategy, variety and superb conditioning, along with outstanding customer service. Winding through moss-draped live oaks and pines and freshwater wetlands and lagoons, Eagle’s Pointe’s spacious corridors allow golfers to [...]

One of the youngest courses to ever appear on Golf Digest’s list of America’s 100 best, theFazio Course at Palmetto par-70 George Fazio continues to offer a stimulating challenge to golfers. With only two par 5s, the heart of the course lies in a series of long par 4s, beginning with the 432-yard first hole and [...]

Some golf courses are known for a sensational signature hole, some for the challenge they present, and others for the sheer beauty of the locale. If strategy and finesse are what attract you, if you’re given to a competitive streak, or if you simply enjoy an easygoing round in a beautiful landscape of woodlands, water, [...]

Home of the prestigious PGA Tour event, The Verizon Heritage each April, Harbour Town Golf Links is perennially ranked among the top golf courses in the world, and has been since the first Heritage back in 1969 was won by the “King,” Arnold Palmer. Design consultant Jack Nicklaus also counts Harbour Town among his victories [...]

Hilton Head National is one of the best 27-hole championship golf courses on or off the Island. Just a quiet, peaceful round of golf at fair prices. This award-winning championship course has established itself as one of Hilton Head’s best a superbly conditioned and diversified layout. Hilton Head National was designed by golf legend Gary [...]

Not your typical Lowcountry layout, Island West Golf Club provides an exciting and challenging test designed by PGA Tour legend Fuzzy Zoeller and award-winning architect Clyde Johnston. This traditionally-styled par-72 championship course stretches out to 6,800 yards from the back tees, but is only 4,900 yards from the forward tees, making it a delightful experience [...]

The lake at Man O’ War is an unpredictable foe. For all its sparkling beauty, it can become the ultimate, punishing hazard. That being said, Man O’ War is a uniquely exciting challenge, a fair playing field where course architect, Dan Maples, delved deeply into the dark world of the imagination to create an astonishing [...]

Oak Point is a shotmaker’s course. Strategy and a thinking approach to the golf course will be rewarded over pure power. In this sense, it is a bit of a throwback to the classic courses of the 1920s where the ability to place the ball in a certain portion of the fairway or a certain [...]

At Old South Golf Links you will enjoy what every golfer comes to Hilton Head to find: fairways that wander through maritime forests and greens shining in the sun surrounded by beautiful Lowcountry marshes. Designed by award-winning architect Clyde Johnston, Old South is a true championship course and a Golf Digest 4-star “Places to Play” [...]

A favorite of resort guests, Fazio used a superb natural canvas to create a masterpiece in playability and variety. The setting for the course features four large, natural lakes, fingers of saltwater marsh, and dense maritime forests of live oaks, pines, palmettos and magnolias. Into that backdrop, Fazio blended a par-72 layout that takes advantage [...]

Oyster Reef Golf Club opened in 1982 and was immediately recognized as one of the top 25 new courses in America. This Rees Jones design has been voted one of the top 20 courses in the Carolinas and enjoys a reputation as a favorite among Hilton Head Island golfers. This 18-hole championship course offers 66 [...]

Imagine 54 holes of legendary golf nestled within one of Hilton Head Island’s most pristine plantations along the Atlantic coastline. Port Royal Golf Club was designed by some of the best golf architects, such as George Cobb, Pete Dye and William Byrd, and it has been home to the Champions Tour Hilton Head Seniors International. [...]

Along with its sister course Arthur Hills at Palmetto Hall, the Robert Cupp Course at Palmetto Hall is the latest addition to The Heritage Collection of courses on Hilton Head Island, immersed in Southern elegance and natural beauty, and a must-play for every golfer. This course has always redefined conventional golf course architecture, thanks to [...]

Named South Carolina’s “Golf Course of the Year” for 2003 after a $3-million renovation by Jones protege Roger Rulewich, the Robert Trent Jones Oceanfront Course still follows the RTJ mantra of “hard par, easy bogey” with its wide fairways, expansive greens and subtle elevation changes, but now those greens have been completely resurfaced, with a [...]

Located in Bluffton, South Carolina, Rose Hill Golf Club is set among the Live Oaks of Rose Hill Plantation. Rose Hill is Lowcountry golfing at its best with Spanish Moss hanging from the trees, sparkling lakes and an abundance of wildlife. This 18-hole gem is not just breathtaking but also a great challenge to all [...]

Hilton Head’s first golf course, the Ocean Course at The Sea Pines Resort, was exquisitely redesigned in 1995 by former PGA Tour pro and past PLAYERS champion, Mark McCumber. The course has since grown into McCumber’s emphasis on traditional and classic principles of course design. He has built interest, challenge and strategy into the course [...]

As a result of a comprehensive renovation project unveiled Labor Day weekend 2008, Shipyard Golf Club is better than ever. The course makeover included spectacular new white sand bunkers and a green surface previously unexplored in the state of South Carolina. Shipyard now features Diamond Zoysia greens, which are expected to improve year-round playing conditions. [...]

Senior PGA and will host the 2012 PGA Championships. The Ocean Course will become only the fourth course to host each of the PGA of America’s major championships.  Probably no other golf course in the world outside of the United Kingdom and Ireland is affected as much by the wind. From one round to the [...]

Tradition National Golf Club is the Lowcountry’s newest golf challenge! Renowned designer Tommy Fazio made maximum use of the lakes and natural wetlands throughout the more than 250 acres of the course. The par-72 layout playing from as far back as 7,300 yards has four other sets of tees playing 6,650, 6,200, 5,960 & 4,955 [...]

Because of its traditional design, many of the better players visiting Kiawah Island Golf Resort would rather play Turtle Point than any of the other courses on the island. With narrow fairway corridors, small greens, strategically placed water hazards and plenty of out-of-bounds, Turtle Point calls for great accuracy and intelligent strategies. Players not driving [...]