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Bluffton, SC 29910
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PGCC – Hilton Head is located in Bluffton, South Carolina. Just across the bridge from world famous Hilton Head Island, Bluffton is a historic Lowcountry town with more than 40 golf courses located within a half hour’s drive. With its sub-tropical climate, sunny skies and variety of courses, the Hilton Head area boasts a year-round golf season and is recognized as one of the premier golf resort destinations in the World.

The campus features a computer lab, library, club repair facility, fitness area, pro-shop, classrooms and 2,000 square foot indoor golf studio. The campus provides the ideal learning environment with the perfect blend of technology and history. The golf studio features state of the art full swing and putting analysis systems to be used for both classroom and individual instruction.

PGCC – Hilton Head students play on some of the finest championship courses in the Hilton Head area. 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 designed courses in the area, which sees more than 1 Million rounds annually. What better place is there to learn the business of golf?

While courses played by the students will vary based on availability and course conditions, as well as agreement with the courses and the college. Below are a selection of courses in the area:

Crescent Point Golf Club
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Crescent Pointe Golf Club is a world-class Arnold Palmer Signature Course. It’s pure Palmer, with generous fairways, but challenging approaches to its many elevated, undulating greens. The course also features beach bunkers on several of the holes lending a true island experience. Five unique par 3s await and the three par 5s are all birdie holes, but all require you to carry the ball over the water to score a birdie. The 18-hole “Crescent Pointe” course at the Crescent Pointe Golf Club facility in Bluffton, South Carolina features 6,773 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 71.

Eagle’s Pointe Golf Club
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The 18-hole Eagle’s Pointe opened in 1998 and has quickly become one of the most popular “off-island” courses with both local golfers, as well as tourists. Designed by Davis Love III, Eagle’s Pointe was engineered and constructed as one of the most environmentally compliant golf courses in Beaufort County and Bluffton. Eagle’s Point is one of the Hilton Head area’s most playable golf courses, neither too long, nor overly difficult. It provides terrific variety and puts maximum value on a golfers’ approach into the greens. The course is routed through pines, oaks, and native coastal wetlands.

Pinecrest Golf Club
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World-renowned golf course architect Rocky Roquemore crafted The Pinecrest Golf Club, in his first South Carolina Lowcountry design. Roquemore is known for co-designing three of the Disney World Courses (the Magnolia Course, the Buena Vista Course, and the Palm Course). He also has been the working golf course architect for Cog Hill in Chicago for the last 26 years. Perhaps most notably, he designed San Lorenzo Golf Club, the number two-rated course in Europe as rated by Golf World Magazine in 1995. The Pinecrest Golf Course Championship layout features: tall pines, strategically placed bunkers, challenging water hazards, premier conditioning, and picturesque golf holes.

Island West Golf Club
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Island West has been rated 4 Stars by Golf Digest and is not your typical Low-county golf course. Golfers of all skill levels have the opportunity for good scores, a reflection of the spirit of our golf club and community. 1979 Masters Champion and 1984 U.S. Open Champion Fuzzy Zoeller and architect Clyde Johnston designed Island West to be a golf course that rewards hard work. The course is challenging but very playable making it a favorite with area golfers.

Arthur Hills Golf Course
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Tee off one of Hilton head Island’s most distinctive course. The Palmetto Dunes Resort golf course layout takes full advantage of the area’s natural beauty, creating a round of golf that is both beautiful and challenging. Designed by Arthur Hills, the golf architect offers golfers a course with continuous lines of dunes and thick stands of palmettos. Though fairway bunkers are absent, off-balance lies, ocean breezes and lagoons add an element of challenge. With reason, the course has earned its reputation as delivering one of the island’s best golf experiences.

Robert Trent Jones Golf Course
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As fine wine grows better with age, so does the Robert Trent Jones course at Palmetto Dunes Resort Following extensive renovations by Jones’ protégé, Roger Rulewich, the oldest course on the resort was named South Carolina’s “Golf Course of the Year” in 2003. Golfers not only look forward to wide fairways, expansive greens and subtle elevation changes but also a new lake and bunkers that have been reshaped and restored to Jones’ original design. Other notable features include the par-five 10th hole, one of the only two oceanfront holes on all of Hilton Head Island.

Fazio Golf Course
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When it comes to delivering a challenging round of golf in Hilton Head, SC, some courses should take a lesson from the young. The George Fazio Course at Palmetto Dunes is one of the youngest courses to ever appear on Golf Digest’s list of “America’s 100 Best.” With just two par-fives on the course, Fazio has designed a layout where the front nine features open, tree-lined fairways and the back nine becomes tighter and more severe. Regarded as the island’s truest championship challenge, the “Fazio Challenge” can be easily enjoyed by both beginner and advanced players.

The Club at Savannah Harbor
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The Club at Savannah Harbor, located in beautiful Savannah, GA, offers you a unforgettable experience. The 18-Hole, Robert Cupp and Sam Snead Championship Golf Course boasts a four-star rating for “Highly Recommended Places to Play” by Golf Digest and is ranked among the Top 100 of America’s Golf Courses by Conde Nast Traveler. The course features 7,288 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 74.6 and it has a slope rating of 134. Designed by Robert E. Cupp, ASGCA and Sam Snead, the Savannah Harbor golf course opened in 1999.

Savannah Quarters Country Club
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The Savannah Quarters Country Club golf course is an 18-hole masterpiece, designed by Greg Norman and managed by Troon Golf, voted the “Best Place to Play Golf in Savannah” by Savannah Magazine. The beautiful horizon views full with oaks and cypress trees frame this beautiful piece of nature created for challenging golf play.

Crosswinds Golf Club
www.crosswindsgolfclub.com
Crosswinds Golf Club is the area’s most unique golfing venue offering 27 holes of some of Savannah’s best golf. Known for our excellent greens and course conditions throughout the year, the 18 hole championship course is an open, parkland style design with no homes anywhere on the course, 6,512 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The Par 3 course is a true golf design, not a pitch-n-putt, this course is the perfect place to practice your short game.

Rose Hill Golf Club
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Located in Bluffton, SC and set among the live oaks of Rose Hill Plantation, you’ll find one of the most memorable golf experiences in Lowcountry. This 18-hole gem is not only astounding but also provides great challenges for golfers of all skill level. Quickly becoming a favorite over the years, Rose Hill is immaculately designed as a player-friendly track that will test golf accuracy with its tight, tree-lined fairways and subtle elevation changes.

In addition to the great golf to be played by PGCC students and resort visitors, Hilton Head Island is also the home to the PGA Tour’s RBC Heritage Tournament, played every April at Harbor Town Golf Links on The Seapines Resort.