Jim Furyk and 10 Golfers Who’ll Be in the Hunt at the Heritage at Hilton Head

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Published: April 20, 2011

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Harbour Town Golf Links isn’t for everyone.  Accuracy is important. The holes are tight. Narrow, tree-lined corridors are the predominant feature, and the wind can play havoc with every shot. Tiger Woods will never play the course.

Harbour Town greens are small targets, so the bonus for hitting them is that putts are not as long as at some other courses, TPC at San Antonio, last week’s venue, for instance.  For golfers who can hit to spots, who can stay out of the trees, Harbour Town is a fun test.

Who can win?  It just takes the right attitude. Big hitters, like Davis Love III, have had success there. Love has won five times.  Precise players, like Jim Furyk and Hale Irwin, have also won.

Defending champ, Furyk said this week that Harbour Town is "all about working the golf ball. There's a lot of strategy involved. But you have to be able to control the golf ball. You have to hit high shots, low shots, curve it right to left, left to right. If you don't have control of the golf ball you're going to struggle at this golf course." 

He added that day to day depending on pin positions, it can be a matter of hitting the drive to a certain side of the fairway to have a shot a the pin.

"If you don't hit the right side of the fairway, you have to carve a shot around trees and hit it low or hit it high or hit it around branches. It's actually a very fun golf course to play," he added.

What that also says is, unlike some courses, any length player can succeed so long as he has a good ball-striking week.  Now, with The Heritage played two weeks before The Players, it may act as a tune up and a predictor of success at the TPC Sawgrass. The reason is that Pete Dye designed both Harbour Town Golf Links and TPC Sawgrass. 

Furyk’s game is so well suited to Harbour Town that he might even be favored to repeat. Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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