Golf Courses for the Birds at Sea Pines Resort!

Luxury Golf Resorts: The Sea Pines Resort of Hilton Head, Southern Carolina, offers three championship golf courses, a rolled-out scroll of activities and events off the links, award-winning accommodations, and spectacular ocean views too! Pushing a family's vacation plans in this direction may turn out to be a very soft sell, because there is something for everyone here.

The Harbour Town Golf Links recently hosted the PGA's Verizon Heritage. The course, measuring nearly 7,000 yards, draws favorable comparisons to legendry Scottish courses of similar distances. Be aware that this course is a sticker, and it is not very forgiving to golfers whose attention flickers. However, its beauty is mesmerizing. The Ocean course, which was rebuilt in 1995 by Mark McCumber, is the first golf course on Hilton Head Island. The Ocean and Sea Marsh courses both are certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary courses. So, despite both courses being for the birds, these courses are for golfers seeking to be challenged too. The Sea Marsh course was designed in 1967 by George Cobb and later revitalized 1990 by Clyde Johnston. Pete Dye, with Jack Nicklaus serving as a consultant, designed the Harbour Town Golf Links.

The supremely sumptuous luxury resort has the Inn at Harbour Town, which has 500 Four Diamond rooms and features 85 premier houses and villas on the premises. Kayaking, boat chartering, cruises, parasailing and waterskiing are some of the easily accessible activities of the area. Go sports fishing is available on the America's Cup Stars & Stripes.

There are plenty of shopping hotspots too. Vacations, big social events, business conferences, big and small, all can be accommodated with the ever-present hospitality of the South at the Sea Pines Resort. A trove of valuable info is conveyed on the resort's website.

For LxM James Rothaar