Hilton Head Golf News

Texan Wesley McClain fired a final round 3-under-par 69 to erase a two-shot deficit and capture a one-shot victory at the Heritage Junior Championship head on the South Course at Berkeley Hall. In the Girls Division, Haley Stephens of Greer, S.C., held off an early charge from her pursuers and carded a 3-under-par 69 en route to a five-shot win.

Conducted by the American Junior Golf Association, the Heritage Junior Championship was a 54-hole stroke play event. The tournament field consisted of 58 boys and 21 girls, ages 14 to 18 from 14 states, Canada and Argentina. The Boys Division played the par-72 layout at 7,056 yards, while the Girls Division played the course at 6,226 yards. 

Despite an impressive list of past champions that includes the likes of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller, Tom Watson and Payne Stewart, the Verizon Heritage is quickly gaining a reputation as a career launching PGA Tour event.

During the past two-plus decades, players of the ilk of Davis Love III, Aaron Baddeley and Boo Weekley have earned their first career victory at Hilton Head Island’s Harbour Town Golf Links. Other more obscure players have enjoyed magical Heritage weekends such as Glen Day, Jose Coceres and Peter Lonard on their way to life-changing triumphs. 

On the golf course, a few feet can be the difference between finding a hazard and landing in a safe spot with a good angle to attack the pin, and club selection is often an integral component in reducing distances to the cup if you're able to find the putting surface.

GreenFinder Golf GPS, a system that utilizes already-exisiting global positioning systems on your iPhone or Blackberry to calculate the distance from the golfer to various targets on the course, is a simple, convenient and affordable way to improve your golf game by having the right club in your hand and the information necessary to make the right play.

The San Diego-based Heritage Golf Group, a leading owner and operator of premier golf properties across the country, has decided to expand its business model by offering golf management services to the golf industry. Heritage Golf Group is reaching out to owners who hold high standards and quality goals for their properties and is offering them management agreements for their clubs.

"During these extraordinary economic times, Heritage Golf Group's 25 years of management expertise can provide great value to owners of golf properties. Heritage Golf Group is a full-service golf management company that focuses on running a golf business and creating efficiencies that increase the profitability of the club, while providing unrivaled golf and uncompromising service," said Bob Husband, President and Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Golf Group. 

Imagine watching the best golfers in the world in a climate-controlled atmosphere overlooking the 15th and 18th holes of the famed Harbour Town Golf Links.

That’s what golf fans who buy the new Arnold Palmer Pass can enjoy at the Verizon Heritage, April 15-19.  Also included in this bargain for only $90 a day is an upscale buffet plus beer and wine.  What more could a golfer want, unless it’s playing Harbour Town, too. 

SAINT HELENA ISLAND, S.C. - Representatives of Dataw Island recently announced that Dataw Island was recognized by Links magazine as one ofthe "Best in Value" golf communities in America in the publication's 2008 "Premier Properties" edition.

The selection process by Links editors included: cost, amenities, master-planning of communities and location. Dataw Island was chosen due to teh community's affordable, yet unique mix of golf, tennis, croquet, community activism and topography. This is the first time Dataw Island has been recognized by the publication. 

Classic Hilton Head Golf Course Returns After Being Left for Dead 

BLUFFTON - Unless you made it a point to avert your eyes, there was no way to avoid the sign positioned at the entrance to once functional Rose Hill Golf Club proclaiming the course's intention of re-opening Labor Day weekend.

Wishful thinking you thought, even though you'd heard the whispers and read the newspaper reports about Rose Hill's new management group, and its ambitious plan to, in six short months, make 18 holes playable on a course left at the mercy of native trees, weeds and grasses after it was abandoned in January of 2006 like a sinking ocean liner. 

Shipyard Golf Club First in South Carolina to Feature Diamond Zoysia Greens

Labor Day weekend, typically celebrated as the symbolic end of summer, marked a new beginning for Shipyard Golf Club, as the 27-hole facility unveiled the results of a course makeover that included new bunkers and a green surface previously unexplored in the state of South Carolina. Both improvements will complement the clubhouse facelift that occurred during the spring.

“We’re excited to introduce these updates to the public,” said Dan Moscar, general manager at Shipyard Golf Club. “The improvements to the course as well as the renovations to the clubhouse will further solidify our presence on the island as well as show our continued dedication to unrivaled golf and uncompromising service.”

The PGA of America, in conjunction with golf legend Jack Nicklaus, has awarded a teaching grant of $5,000 to The First Tee of Greater Charleston of Mt. Pleasant, S.C. Nicklaus/PGA of America teaching grants were awarded to nine Chapters of The First Tee representing nine states, totaling $45,000.

To date, 161 of the 206 active Chapters of The First Tee worldwide have been recipients of either a PGA of America or Nicklaus/PGA teaching grant. The combined PGA and Nicklaus/PGA grants total $1,855,000. 

For 40 years the PGA Tour has descended up Hilton Head Island for the Verizon Heritage, bringing some of the world's top golfers to the Lowcountry. The immediate area also hosts premier amateur golf tournaments each year in addition to a number of charity and celebrity tournaments.

In late October, the egolf Amateur Golf Tour will hold its 2008 National Championship in Hilton Head, making history as the largest tournament in the island's history.