Course Information
Harbour Town Golf Links is a par 71 course that is 6,973 yards from the back tees, relatively short for a PGA Tour event. Most tour events are hosted on courses that average around 7,300 yards. Harbour Town Golf Links has slick and firm Bermuda grass greens that are small in size. The average green at Harbour Town is 3,700 square feet while the average square footage of greens played on tour is 6,600 square feet.
Several holes have a very small margin of error between greens and water hazards (#s 4,8,14,17,18). Tee shots and lay-ups must be placed in the strategic part of fairway in order to have a direct shot into the green. Sometimes golfers get blocked out by overhanging trees, even if they are in the fairway. Holes in which players may be blocked out from the fairway include numbers 1,2,8,9,10,11,12,13,15 and 16. Compared to other courses Harbour Town has high percentage of holes with this challenge.
The ninth hole is a tight par 4 that can be reached from the tee with a long drive. It normally plays around 325 yards, tempting golfers to go for a small green guarded by bunkers. The two finishing holes are along Calibogue Sound, so the water line can vary due to changing tides. The hazard line that marks the water hazard is permanent but shots could potentially be played off the sand at low tide. The seventeenth hole, a par three, plays into a severe wind nearly every time because of the hole’s location on Calibogue Sound. On the seventeenth and eighteenth holes golfers must deal with the wind coming off of the sound. The eighteenth is the signature hole at Harbour Town Golf Links. The entire left side of this signature hole is guarded by Calibogue Sound and the right side lined with out of bounds stakes. The red and white striped Harbour Town lighthouse can be seen in the background and is often a good target for golfers to aim their shots into the green.
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