Hilton Head’s best-known public golf sits inside two gated resorts about 20 minutes apart. At the southern tip, The Sea Pines Resort runs Harbour Town Golf Links, the Pete Dye course that stages the RBC Heritage each April, and Atlantic Dunes, the 2016 Davis Love III rebuild of the island’s first course. Mid-island, Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort has three courses, and its Robert Trent Jones Course is the one that climbs to a view of the beach. You can play all three without booking a bed, but each lets you on in its own way. Harbour Town insists on a forecaddie for every guest group, Atlantic Dunes leaves caddies to you, and Palmetto Dunes has no caddie service at all. None of them prints a fixed green fee, so this page compares what you can pin down: booking windows, extra costs, drive times and the weeks to avoid.
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| Course | Green fee from | What’s included | Getting there | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 1Harbour Town Golf LinksChampionship course & resort | Rates on request · how to book | Bookpackage via GolfbreaksRead the guide | ||
 2Atlantic Dunes by Davis Love IIIResort course | Rates on request · how to book | Bookpackage via GolfbreaksRead the guide | ||
 3Robert Trent Jones Course, Palmetto DunesResort course (three-course venue) | Rates on request · how to book | Bookpackage via GolfbreaksRead the guide |
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Harbour Town, home of the RBC Heritage since Arnold Palmer won the first one in 1969. Its greens rank among the smallest on tour, and every one was rebuilt before the November 2025 reopening. Plan on walking from the path to your ball all round.
Green fees & bookingAtlantic Dunes, whose corridors Discover South Carolina calls the widest at Sea Pines. Crushed-shell waste areas replace the oaks, and the uphill par-three 15th points straight at the Atlantic. Play it before you tackle Harbour Town.
Green fees & bookingThe Jones Course at Palmetto Dunes, in a resort with three miles of sand and an 11-mile lagoon for paddling. No caddie rule, a floodlit Toptracer range, and the Fazio and Hills courses on the same property.
Green fees & bookingEach package names its rounds, nights and hotels, so you can see which of the courses above it includes before you ask for a quote.
5 nights self-catering, 4 rounds
Rounds: Robert Trent Jones Course, Palmetto Dunes · Harbour Town Golf Links · Turtle Point or Cougar Point (Kiawah) · The Ocean Course, Kiawah Island
Stay: 3 nights at Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort, 2 at Kiawah Island Golf Resort
Harbour Town and Kiawah’s Ocean Course in one five-night trip, with a forecaddie at Harbour Town and a walking caddie on the Ocean Course.
Prices are Golfbreaks’ published per-person guide prices in US dollars, checked November 2026; your quote depends on dates and group size. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. How we work
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Neither resort publishes a rack rate, so start with a live search for your date and slot. At Harbour Town, set aside the forecaddie gratuity, which Sea Pines puts at a minimum of US$50 per player, rising to US$125 if you ask for a walking caddie. Atlantic Dunes adds nothing unless you request a caddie, and golfers aged 17 or younger pay half. At Palmetto Dunes, book online for the lowest price, allow US$65 if you hire clubs, and bring one child aged 10 or under free per paying adult after 4 p.m. Driving into Sea Pines without resort access means buying a vehicle pass at the gate.
Two airports serve the island. Hilton Head Island Airport (HHH), at the north end, is about 15 minutes from Palmetto Dunes but has a thin schedule. Savannah/Hilton Head International (SAV) carries far more flights and sits 45 minutes to an hour from Palmetto Dunes, and around an hour from Sea Pines, depending on bridge traffic. Harbour Town and Atlantic Dunes are only minutes apart behind the same gate, while Palmetto Dunes, off William Hilton Parkway on Queens Folly Road, is roughly 20 minutes north of them. Hire a car. A Sea Pines villa keeps two of the three on your doorstep, and a mid-island rental puts the Jones Course closest.
Everyone wants March to May and late September to November, with mild weather and the fullest tee sheets at both resorts. The 2027 RBC Heritage is played on 15–18 April, and the tournament week begins on 12 April with practice days and pro-ams, so plan around it unless you are coming to watch. Palmetto Dunes has its own dates to dodge: temporary greens on holes 3 and 4 from 9 to 22 November 2026, and aeration on 9–12 June and 4–7 August 2027. July and August are hot and sticky, with thunderstorms most afternoons, and hurricane season runs from June to November.
Yes. Non-guests use the same Sea Pines booking system, but only once a date is within 90 days, while resort guests can reserve further out at discounted rates. For spring and autumn mornings that head start counts, so book the day your date opens, or take the three-night Villa Golf Package, which includes Harbour Town, Heron Point and Atlantic Dunes.
None of these three courses lists a fixed green fee: Sea Pines and Palmetto Dunes both price by date and time in their booking engines. Known extras are the Harbour Town forecaddie tip of at least US$50 per player and US$65 club hire at Palmetto Dunes. Juniors get half price at Atlantic Dunes.
Atlantic Dunes and the Jones Course at Palmetto Dunes. The uphill 15th at Atlantic Dunes plays towards the Atlantic, and Golf.com counts it as one of just two oceanside holes on the island. The Jones Course’s par-five 10th, about 550 yards into the sea wind, ends at a raised green overlooking the beach.
Only at Harbour Town, where every guest group takes one forecaddie. At Atlantic Dunes a forecaddie or walking caddie is optional; ring (843) 842-1450 to arrange one. Palmetto Dunes lists no caddie service, and its golf app supplies GPS yardages and books tee times instead.
Hilton Head Island Airport (HHH), about 15 minutes from Palmetto Dunes, though it has few flights. Most visitors fly into Savannah/Hilton Head International (SAV) and drive roughly an hour onto the island. Sea Pines is a gated community, so carry your reservation details for the gate.