Part resort, part residential community, Palmetto Bluff is a place where you can stay a night or a lifetime. Comprised of 20,000 acres in the South Carolina Lowcountry just off of Hilton Head Island, Palmetto Bluff features 4,000 homesites blending seamlessly with nature. The Montage Palmetto Bluff is a luxury resort that introduces guests to the…
Situated on the southernmost tip of Hilton Head Island, the legendary Sea Pines Resort offers five miles of beaches including a beach club, 21 clay tennis courts, 14 miles of bike and walking trails, horseback riding, Eco-Adventures, water sports and three golf courses. Pete Dye’s Harbour Town Golf Links, home to a PGA TOUR event, is the signature…
Showcasing a prime stretch of Hilton Head Island's beachfront on the Atlantic Ocean, the Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa markets "approachable" luxury. Guests will enjoy "farm & sea to table" dining at four distinct restaurants. Which do you prefer: One of three outdoor pools or the beach? Complimentary shuttles are available to the Port…
The Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort, part of the Marriott Bonvoy brand of hotels, is a golf resort located on Hutchinson Island in the Savannah River on the Georgia-South Carolina border. There is a marina that allows boaters to stop off at the resort for dinner or golf. The resort is home to the 18-hole Club at Savannah Harbor, which features…
The Fripp Island Golf & Beach Resort offers a wide variety of fun and entertainment. While the beach is the draw for many vacationers, it isn't the only reason to visit. Guests have so many choices. That includes where to stay, play golf, dine or how to spend their time. A marina, activities center, multiple pools and events throughout the season…
South Carolina's Hilton Head Island is one of the east coast's most popular golf destinations. Combined with Bluffton next door there are scores of lowcountry golf courses to choose from. Although Hilton Head Island is only 12 miles by five miles wide, it boasts more than 250 restaurants and 24 championship courses. It's a well known destination among golfers from all over the world, boasting layouts crafted by course-design legends including Robert Trent Jones Sr., Pete Dye and Jack Nicklaus.
Golfers who want to avoid the traffic and other hassles of Hilton Head Island can stay and play in Bluffton, South Carolina, a growing retirement community that is home to more than a dozen golf courses stacked up one after another along Fording Island Road. There are enough public-access courses in Bluffton to keep snowbird, retirees and vacationers busy for a week or more. Here are five of the best.
The Lowcountry around Hilton Head, S.C. might as well be called the "low key country," too. That natural feel is probably the major difference between this area and the Grand Strand to the north. In the Lowcountry, the golf courses and residential and commercial developments tend to be more thoughtful and less intrusive. If you want a relaxing vacation, come to the Lowcountry.
A spectacular piece of land has helped make Colleton River Plantation's Nicklaus Course one of the top golf courses in South Carolina. It's a piece of property particularly inspiring to Nicklaus: "Colleton River reminds me of Cypress Point. It has as many elements as any golf course on the East Coast.
The front nine on Pete Dye's course at Colleton River Plantation is a mostly traditional-looking lowcountry layout, set in deep forest and weaving throughout the residential community with subtle doglegs. But it's the second half of the course that makes Colleton River among Dye's most remarkable. From the ninth hole through the finish, you're on open, coastal land nudged up to the Port Royal Sound, which filters out toward the Atlantic Ocean.
You have a few days to spend in Hilton Head Island, but you don't have much money to spend on golf -- $200 to be exact. That's okay. While bucket list golf at places like Harbour Town Golf Links isn't happening, Jason Scott Deegan offers up an itinerary you'll enjoy while staying within your $200 budget -- almost.
Upon buying Sea Pines in 2005, Charles Goodwin promised heavy investment into the property. A decade on, the resort boasts two new golf clubhouses and beach clubs, and the courses are next on the agenda.
Harbour Town Golf Links is on everyone's must-play list on Hilton Head Island thanks to the PGA Tour event at Harbour Town every April, the RBC Heritage. Somewhat less familiar, however, are the wide variety of golf courses on the island and the nearby communities of Bluffton, Beaufort and Savannah. Ed Schmidt offers up some suggestions to accommodate any budget.
With Harbour Town under the knife for a summer renovation, its sister course at Sea Pines Resort -- Heron Point -- has picked up the slack, topping the latest Golf Advisor Power Rankings.
The Scotty Cameron Golf Getaway at the Palmetto Dunes resort on Hilton Head Island, S.C. provides not just golf and lodging, but a premium GoLo putter, a Polo RX shirt and more.
While Eagle's Pointe Golf Club is among the most player-friendly golf courses in the Hilton Head area, don't call it easy. But feel free to swing away on this Davis Love III design that serves as the perfect complement to its sister course, Arnold Palmer's Crescent Pointe G.C.
Playing Crescent Pointe Golf Club in Bluffton, S.C. never gets old. With three holes flirting with the scenic Colleton River, this 6,773-yard par-71 Arnold Palmer design both delights the senses and creates thrilling theater. Water lurks around every twist of the fairway, adding strategy and drama on nearly every shot.
Though it's the Nicklaus Course that receives a little more national ink in magazines, the newer Dye Course at Colleton River Plantation is arguably a more-stunning piece of land. It sits on an arguably a more-stunning piece of land, featuring more holes overlooking the beautiful Port Royal Sound on the cusp of the Atlantic Ocean.
Located on Hilton Head Island, Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort boasts one of the Southeast's top golf vacation experiences. The resort is home to three miles of ocean coastline as well as three championship golf courses - the Robert Trent Jones Course, the Arthur Hills Course and the George Fazio Course.
After Hurricane Matthew, it's business as usual at Harbour Town Golf Links at The Sea Pines Resort in South Carolina. Brandon Tucker shares photos from a recent round.
The oldest golf course in Hilton Head Island, S.C. has been rebuilt as the newest: Atlantic Dunes opened in October following a year under the knife. Check it out.
With water on 10 holes, tree-lined fairways and plenty of doglegs, the Arthur Hills Course is the most challenging of the three layouts at Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort in Hilton Head Island, S.C.
One of the top golf courses in Hilton Head Island, S.C., the Robert Trent Jones Course at Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort is known for its ocean view on the 10th hole. But this course is about so much more than one or two holes.
Sanctuary Golf Club at Cat Island is what its name implies: a peaceful, serene layout where only a few houses spoil the beauty of the South Carolina Lowcountry. A renovation in 2009 by Jeff Brauer made the course more playable, improving all the bunkers (while removing some and adding others) and increasing the size of most greens by 20 percent.
Designed by renowned architect Tom Fazio, the Cotton Dike course is named for the old Cotton Dike that surrounds a side of Dataw Island, and several holes on the front nine play along it. The course finishes with several holes along stunning marshland, and the par-5 18th hole is a jaw-dropping finish, doglegging left around the marsh to a small, heavily guarded green.