The Biggles Cup
Past Venues and Results
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The Biggles Cup
The Venue
The 5,200 acre Sea Pines Resort was developed on the southern point of Hilton Head island.
Sea Pines was founded in 1956 by Charles Fraser as a pioneering, environmentally conscious residential and vacation community. It set a new standard form sustainable costal development by integrating nature with design.
Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and Calibogue Sound, Sea Pines contains five miles of beach and maritime forest.
The first golf course opened was the Ocean Course in 1960 (since updated by Pete Dye and now Atlantic Dunes - see below). This was followed by the Sea Marsh course in 1961 (since updated by Davis Love III and now Heron Point - see below) and Harbour Town Golf Links in 1969.
Harbour Town Golf Links is the course that literally put Hilton Head on the map and, more that 40 year later, it remains one of the most revered courses in the world.
Home to the RBC Heritage, this distinguished courses places a premium on finesse, imagination and shot making rather than pure strength.
The par threes are ranked among the world's finest and the par four 18th is one of the most iconic holes in Golf.
Many consider it to be Pete Dye's crowning achievement.
Heron Point, again by Pete Dye, is the result of a multimillion dollar reconstruction project in 2007, a stunning transformation of the Sea Pines Resort original Sea Marsh Golf Course.
Dye and his associated dramatically reshaped the fairways of the original course and the resulting mounts and hillocks constantly keep the golfer off balance with dramatic angles and shifting elevations.
The movement is even more dramatic around Heron Point's green complexes. A variety of obstacles lurk around the putting surfaces, and the greens themselves are small and undulating.
Bring a sharp short game and you should appreciate Dye's diabolical genius.
Opened in 2017, the Atlantic Dunes Golf Course is a remodelling of the George Cobb designed Ocean Course, the first golf course built on Hilton Head in 1961.
The remodelling was completed by Davis Love III and lead architect Scott Sherman and restored natural dunes and created new sand hills which now blend into the layout.
Thousand son indigenous plants were installed, trees removed, moving lines and altered and water hazards made less intrusive. All of which has enhanced the playability of the course and the seaside ambience of the course.
The signature par three 15th, one of only two oceanside holes in the whole of Hilton Head, is considered one of the most visibly stunning holes in the US.