Conventional wisdom says a golf course needs to stretch out to a bruising 7,600 yards to test the pros on the PGA Tour Harbour Town Golf Links site of the PGA Tour s Veriozon Heritage debunks that idea Designed by Pete Dye Harbour Town is death by a thousand cuts for those hitting it off line The first 16 holes feature narrow fairways and tiny greens hemmed in by lagoons live oaks pines and palmettos The final two holes play alongside Calibogue Sound with No 18 backed by the famous candy cane striped lighthouse The Ocean Course at Sea Pines was the very first golf course on Hilton Head Island a 1960 George Cobb design that remains one of the better second tier courses on the island thanks in part to its par 3 15th hole that is back dropped by the Atlantic Ocean It s one of only two holes on Hilton Head to offer this distinction After a multi million dollar reconstruction project the former Sea Marsh Course has been re opened and re named Heron Point by Pete Dye The fairways have been reshaped plenty of earth was moved to create sharper angles and elevation changes