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Love Golf Design, the firm run by PGA Tour star Davis Love III and his brother Mark, has been hired by South Carolina’s Sea Pines resort to redesign the resort’s Ocean course.
The Ocean course, which opened in 1962 and was designed by George Cobb, was the first golf course built on Hilton Head Island. It was previously renovated by Mark McCumber’s design practice back in 1995. The course will close next October and reopening is planned for September 2016.
The renovation of the Ocean course is part of a major investment by the resort in its golf courses. Pete Dye and his team recently completed changes to the Heron Point course, which reopened for play in September. Dye’s team softened the green surrounds and contours, enlarged several greens, and changed the putting surfaces were transitioned to Tif-Eagle bermuda.
Additionally, the resort’s flagship, Dye’s Harbour Town course will close for an upgrade next summer, after the 2015 playing of the RBC Heritage event. Fairways will be regrassed with Celebration bermuda, while the greens will be reseeded with Tif-Eagle, and the irrigation system will be replaced.
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