Hilton Head, South Carolina
South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island has enough courses to keep hardcore golf enthusiasts busy for a week straight without playing the same course twice. The Heritage Golf Collection on Hilton Head Island brings together four exclusive golf clubs, each with their own meeting and event space options, for a total of six 18-hole and three 9-hole courses. The Collection partners with location villas, homes and hotels to create full-service packages for guests.
The Sea Pines Resort, which spreads over 5,000 acres and nearly a third of Hilton Head Island, has some of the most celebrated courses on Hilton Head. Harbour Town Golf Links is home to the PGA RBC Heritage Tournament; Heron Point by Pete Dye is an artful course of finesse; and the Ocean Course takes advantage of winds off the Atlantic coming over the dunes.
Between the Harbour Town Clubhouse, the Plantation Golf Club and the Sea Pines Beach Club, groups have options for 20,000 square feet of indoor meeting space. Verandas, golf courses, marinas and the resort’s lighthouse offer many interchangeable options for outdoor space that takes advantage of the resort’s unobstructed ocean views.
Kiawah, South Carolina
Kiawah Island Golf Resort hosted the PGA Championship in 2012 and is set to do so again in 2021, making it one of only four venues that have hosted all of the PGA’s major championships. It’s most-lauded course is the Pete and Alice Dye-designed Ocean Course, which Golf Digest named the fourth-best public golf course in the country.
Like at Nags Head, wind is a major factor on the Ocean Course, since the course is raised above the dunes to give players a clear view of the coastline from every hole. As a result, it has the most seaside holes of any course in the Northern Hemisphere. The wind can go either way, heightening the difficulty, so the course was designed as two courses in one to accommodate winds from either the east or the west.
The AAA five-diamond and Forbes five-star resort offers 35,000 square feet of meeting space between its three clubhouses, conference center, Oceanside pavilion and main hotel, The Sanctuary. In addition to rounds of golf on the resort’s five golf courses, the event team can also set up wine tastings, cooking classes and islandwide scavenger hunts between meeting sessions.
