Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort

There are many reasons you'll remember Harbour Town Golf Links. The forecaddies, the sunny skies next to the brilliant-green grass no matter what month, the vista from The Grille. More specifically, you'll remember the trees, nearly every blasted one, the amazing bunker systems, and the creativity of Pete and Alice Dye.

It's a golf course you have to play to believe, because just watching the Verizon Heritage PGA Tour tournament each April isn't nearly the same.

Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort

From the very start, trees push in close at Harbour Town Golf Links.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - hole 4

Harbour Town Golf Links's par-3 fourth features a dramatic water hazard followed by a small, offset green.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - hole 5

The par-5 fifth hole at Harbour Town Golf Links has moat-like bunkers that wrap around grassy knolls.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - hole 7

Harbour Town Golf Links's seventh hole, a par 3, has a tiny green surrounded by a desert and guarded atop by a tree-branch canopy.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - hole 8

Trees block out the left side of the eighth green at Harbour Town Golf Links.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - hole 9

Welcome to jail on the ninth fairway, a common predicament at Harbour Town, given the sliver-thin fairway.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - hole 11

The bunkers around No. 11 at Harbour Town Golf Links make any errant approach shot treacherous.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - hole 11 bunkers

The bunkers around the 11th hole at Harbour Town make any errant approach shot treacherous.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - hole 14

No. 14 at Harbour Town Golf Links is a hole you might never forget. Room for a sound approach shot is microscopic, then there is the massive fore bunker below the tie-surrounded green.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - 14th green

Nearly vertical railroad-tie walls all but surround the elevated green on No. 14 at Harbour Town Golf Links.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - hole 15

The 15th par 3 at Harbour Town Golf Links is breath taking and knee knocking.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - hole 16

If being in the bunker off the 16th green at Harbour Town Golf Links isn't enough, you might have to circumvent a palm tree.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - hole 17

Harbour Town Golf Links's 17th hole combines hazards with beautiful distractions to challenge any golfer.

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Harbour Town Golf Links at Sea Pines Resort - 9th green

Landing in one of series of pot bunkers behind Harbour Town Golf Links's ninth green could lead to another sand shot from the front side.

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