Harbour Town Golf Links
Sea Pines Plantation
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Home to the MCI Heritage Classic

Architect:
Pete Dye & Jack Nicklaus

Tees          1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  OUT
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Heritage     414 505 411 198 535 419 180 462 337 3461
White        328 481 342 160 515 379 140 422 310 3077
Red          300 420 297 131 432 304  94 353 275 2606
Par           4   5   4   3   5   4   3   4   4   36

Tees         10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18   IN   TOT
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Heritage     436 438 413 378 165 575 376 176 478 3451  6912
White        352 392 383 335 138 507 316 161 458 3042  6119
Red          326 314 290 302  97 417 240  97 330 2413  5019
Par           4   4   4   4   3   5   4   3   4   35    71

        After doing Firestone, Harbour Town was an about face for me. The
course was done in 1969 by Pete Dye with consultation from Jack Nicklaus.
Harbour Town was the first of what are now called "target golf" courses,
courses which define the method of play, from drive to approach. The fairways
are narrow and the greens are tiny, so small in fact that the largest one is
only thirty-eight yards deep. The design was based on the theory that long is
not necessary better. Firestone is the exact opposite, with a difference of
360 yards and larger greens.
        Dye cut his teeth on this course with his railroad tie bunkers and
his theory on strategy rather than strength, preparing himself for such
adventures as the TPC at Sawgrass and Oak Tree in Edmond, Oklahoma. This is
a course where the top players rise to the top, such as Tom Watson, Nick
Faldo, Greg Norman and Payne Stewart.
        The JNU design was done by myself, using the books "Golf Courses of
the PGA Tour" , "The Golf Courses of Jack Nicklaus", "The World Atlas of Golf"
a shotbook and scorecard from the course itself and viewing the most recent
Heritage Open.
        I would also like to thank Scott Chesney for his lighthouse in the
background from his version of Harbour Town. 
        Thanks once again for having enough interest to download this one.

Other courses I've also been involved with designing:
        The TPC at Southwind (Federal Express Open)
        Firestone C.C. (World Series of Golf-south course)
        The TPC at Avenel (Kemper Open)
        Forest Oaks C.C. (K-Mart Greater Greensboro Open)
        TPC at Scottsdale (Greater Phoenix Open)
        Kingsmill G.C.

Dale Somerfelt
Parma, Ohio
September 3, 1992