Tournament Fact Sheet

RBC Heritage Harbour Town Golf Links • Hilton Head, S.C. • April 15-18, 2021

Golf Course Superintendent Tournament Set-up Jonathan Wright : 36-35—71 Phone: 843-842-1460 Yardage: 7,121 Email: [email protected] Stimpmeter: 11.5 Twitter: @jwrighth Course Statistics Years as GCSAA Member: 25 Average Green Size: 3,700 sq. ft. Years at Harbour Town: 23 Acres of Fairway: 22 Years as a Superintendent: 12 Acres of Rough: 47 Hometown: Lexington, Ky. Number of Sand Bunkers: 54 Education: University of Kentucky Number of Holes Water is in Play: 18 Soil Conditions: Sandy loam Other Key Golf Personnel Water Sources: Effluent Ryan Dehlinger, Assistant Superintendent Drainage Conditions: Good Ian Seal, Assistant Superintendent Shamus White, Assistant Superintendent Turfgrass David Collins, Equipment Manager Greens: TifEagle bermudagrass overseeded Number of Tournament Employees: 52 with Poa trivialis .115” : Celebration bermudagrass overseed

with perennial ryegrass .325” Course Architect Fairways: Celebration bermudagrass Architect (year): (1969) overseeded with perennial ryegrass .375” Rough: Celebration bermudagrass overseeded with perennial ryegrass .750”

Additional Notes • Course was all bermudagrass for last year’s event in June. It was overseeded this year.

• There was 4,000 square feet of area added to No. 17 after last year’s event.

• Area had a cold, wet winter, which was not Tournament Fact Sheets for the PGA, LPGA, Champions good for the bermudagrass. Course has and Korn Ferry Tours and USGA can be found all year at: seen extensive play during pandemic. https://www.gcsaa.org/media/tournament-fact-sheets • Ahead of 2020 event fairways were expanded on holes 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 16. Bunker faces and banks were reestablished throughout the course.

Mike Strauss • Media Relations Manager • (O) 785-312-5164 • (C) 785-865-8444 • [email protected] • www.gcsaa.org

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