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Harbour Town Golf Links is an 18-hole, par-71 resort course at The Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Island. Pete Dye designed the course with Jack Nicklaus serving as design consultant, and it opened in 1969 in time for the inaugural Heritage Golf Classic. Sea Pines currently lists the Heritage tees at 7,131 yards with a 75.5 course rating and slope of 146.
The course is deliberately strategic rather than primarily length-driven: narrow playing corridors, small greens, trees and carefully positioned hazards reward placement and approach angles. Harbour Town has hosted the PGA TOUR's Heritage tournament continuously since its inaugural event, now played as the RBC Heritage. The closing hole runs beside Calibogue Sound toward the Harbour Town Lighthouse and is one of the course's defining visual features.
The course is an 18-hole resort golf course. It plays to par 71, 7,131 yards, course rating 75.5 and slope rating 146. Designed by Jack Nicklaus and Pete Dye, the course originally opened in 1969. It is open to the public. On-site facilities include Pro Shop, Restaurant, Dining, Accommodation.
Sea Pines developer Charles Fraser wanted a championship course with an old-fashioned strategic character and approached Jack Nicklaus. Nicklaus recommended Pete Dye, and the pair began the Harbour Town project in July 1968.
Dye and Nicklaus rejected the prevailing emphasis on width and power. Harbour Town was built with narrow corridors, small greens and approach angles controlled by trees and hazards, making position from the tee more important than raw distance.
The course was completed in time for the inaugural Heritage Golf Classic in 1969. Arnold Palmer won the first event at one under par, the only player to finish below par that week.
Harbour Town became one of Dye's career-defining designs and has remained a regular PGA TOUR venue for more than five decades.
The course remains part of The Sea Pines Resort and continues to host the RBC Heritage each year.
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