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<\/a><\/p>\nSome limbs have been trimmed, bunkers have been reworked, some lost pot bunkers have been reinstated, the greens have been subtly reshaped and softly recontoured in spots to add pin positions and it has all been accomplished without losing Harbour Town\u2019s magic.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a beautiful bridge connecting the past, the present and the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe locked arms, we had a common purpose. We knew exactly what we were going to do,\u201d said John Farrell, the director of sports operations at Sea Pines Resort.<\/p>\n
\u201cScottie Scheffler, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, Patrick Cantlay. They came to us unsolicited [last year] and said, \u2018We heard you\u2019re closing.\u2019 And they said, \u2018Please don\u2019t change the integrity of this golf course. We\u2019ve got something we love.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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The last significant course updates at Harbour Town were done in 1999.<\/p>\n
It mimicked the message given to Harbour Town\u2019s former director of golf Cary Corbitt when the last significant work was done to the course in 1999.<\/p>\n
\u201cTom Watson, Lanny Wadkins, Peter Jacobsen, Mark O\u2019Meara, a great number of them came and said, \u2018Don\u2019t change it.\u2019 It was the exact same script we got 25 years later,\u201d Farrell said.<\/p>\n
Love may know Harbour Town as well as anyone. He attended the first Heritage in 1969 when his father was playing the PGA Tour and Love\u2019s success at Harbour Town has defined his Hall of Fame career along with his rainbow-framed victory in the 1997 PGA Championship at Winged Foot.<\/p>\n
One of the game\u2019s longest hitters in his prime, Love won consistently on a course that rewards precision over power and still does. At Harbour Town, it has always been more about where the ball goes than about how far it goes.<\/p>\n
Hitting one of Harbour Town\u2019s slender fairways isn\u2019t always enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think what Scottie Scheffler loves about this golf course is if you hit it in the right side of the fairway on [No.] 1, you\u2019re rewarded. You hit it in the left side of the fairway on [No.] 2, you\u2019re rewarded,\u201d Love said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the kind of work that a resort guest who plays Harbour Town once every year or so might not notice but tour players and architecture aficionados will.<\/p>\n
And so it goes throughout the layout, which still features small greens that now have more movement than before without adding sharp edges and contours.<\/p>\n
Some of the course work involved removing footbridges and rerouting cart paths. The par-5 fifth hole, annually one of the easiest holes in the RBC Heritage, has more bite now thanks to moving a large live oak near the green closer into play while also creating a new back-left pin position.<\/p>\n
Iconic greens such as the horseshoe-shaped ninth remain as they were, though the bunkers around No. 9 are slightly deeper. Stacked sod walls on some bunker faces had been lost over the years but they have been restored with artificial sod faces. The front of 13th green was lowered slightly where the boards frame the sprawling bunker face.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the kind of work that a resort guest who plays Harbour Town once every year or so might not notice but tour players and architecture aficionados will.<\/p>\n
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