Featured Hilton Head Golf Course Stories

BLUFFTON - This spring bands of brothers from every corner of the country will once again set aside sibling rivalries and team up for a chance to claim the 2010 Brother-Brother National Championship at Bluffton’s Old South Golf Links. The 36-hole Better Ball tournament is open to any and all two-man blood brother teams, and features two divisions of play: team low net and loss gross. The event is scheduled for May 13-15.

Part golf tournament and part social gathering, the Brother-Brother event has become a yearly ritual for some brothers since its inception in 1993. For other pairs, it’s served as the common ground to repair estranged relationships.

A voracious reader and Ivy League educated lawyer, Charles E. Fraser was known for his tendency to preside over spirited intellectual debates. With that said, it’s hard to fathom how the founding father of The Sea Pines Resort could’ve convinced the PGA Tour to bring professional golf’s premier circuit to this tiny island community.

It’s an especially remarkable achievement when you consider that Hilton Head’s total population a little more than a dozen years prior to his deal with the Tour wasn’t too far off from the crowd you’ll find gathered around the 18th green on the weekend during this year’s Verizon Heritage.

Whether the plan is to make memories on the links, the courts, the water or the beach, there is, in fact, no better time of year to visit Hilton Head Island than the fall and winter months. It’s an experience, however, that is only fully optimized by a stay at the Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort, where golf is the most important thing, but by no means the only thing.