STATS
Men’s par: 71
Women’s par: 70
Designer: Pete Dye
Opened for play: 1961, redesigned in 2007.
TEES
Gold: 6,481 yards
Blue: 6,471 yards
White: 6,075 yards
Green: 5,523 yards
Red: 5,040 yards
Harbour Town Links is not the only course to have Pete Dye’s famous name attached to it. Heron Point was designed with the idea of giving golfers of all handicaps a challenge, it has 7 sets of tees and both fairways that run towards and away from hazards making you think about the placement of your shot therefore, not always favouring length off the tee. The main changes to the course were in the fairways, with them being reshaped into different angles meaning that the course now contains a number of doglegs which puts an emphasis on positional play. One of the hardest holes on the course is the short par 3, 13th. Measuring in at just a 157 yards a longer hitter would be feeling fairly comfortable with a short iron in their hand. However, skirting the entire left hand side of the hole is water and with rough to right, the green certainly looks small from the tee box.
