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Hilton Head Golf and Travel Packages
Hilton Head Golf
The unique blend of unspoiled natural beauty, the courses and environmentally sensitive design
-complemented by world class resorts, amenities and activities-makes Hilton Head Island, South
Carolina a golf vacation destination like no other. Hilton Head Island golf packages and vacation travel.
The Hilton Head Island area is one of the nation's foremost golf destinations for golf vacation travel. Is it any wonder that Golf Digest readers
named Hilton Head Island Number 10 on its list of the world's best golf resorts and places to play?
Hilton Head Island Golf
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Hilton Head, with its sub-tropical climate, sunny skies and lush green fairways, the destination boasts a year-round golf season. Golf enthusiasts will delight in the wide and scenic
fairways of the Island's courses, created by golf's most preeminent architects. George and Tom Fazio, Arthur Hills, Rees and Robert Trent Jones, Pete Dye, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold
Palmer, George Cobb, Gary Player, Fuzzy Zoeller and Willard Byrd have all left their distinctive mark on the championship courses, which see 1,000,000 rounds of golf annually and generate
revenues for Beaufort County of over $77 million each year.
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For years, golfers of all skill levels have found that Hilton Head Island is a great place to perfect their putts and improve their swings. In fact, all of the Island's public, resort
and private clubs offer both group and individual lessons from certified golf-instruction professionals. Most clinics are offered on an hourly, daily or weekly basis and cover all aspects
of the game, including warm-up, swing techniques, putting and other short-game skills and course strategy. Women golfers who are looking to improve their games can enroll in LPGA pro
Marlene Floyd's "For Women Only" golf school at Palmetto Dunes or LPGA pro Inez Long's clinic at Island West Golf Club.
While there is an amazing amount of golf
to be played at Hilton Head Island, there are also a number of prestigious tournaments and special events held every year. Perhaps the most celebrated tournament is The Heritage,
featuring the biggest names on the PGA Tour circuit and a substantial purse of $3 million. Every Labor Day weekend, the Island proudly holds the Celebrity Golf Tournament, a fun-filled
event with celebrity players from the world of sports, television, movies and music. Later in the fall, Hilton Head Island hosts the Golf World/Palmetto Dunes Collegiate Invitational, a
popular tournament showcasing the next generation of golfing greats.
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