Hilton Heads Up!
40th Verizon Heritage
The
Verizon Heritage is celebrating it 40th year at
Harbour Town Golf Links, April 14 - 20. If you haven’t booked a Heritage home or villa – do it NOW. Yes, this is one of the busiest times on the island, but it’s also one of the greatest. Since it promises to be another sellout (135,000+ fans), call for tickets or go
on line. Check out the Wild Wing Café Club on #15. It’s a new hospitality tent that get’s you front row seats at that long par 5.
Boo Weekley is the defending champion and he is, definitely, not your typical cool and collected Tour professional. He got his nickname from the cartoon hero Yogi Bear’s sidekick, “Boo Boo Bear.” An avid hunter and fisherman, he’s sponsored by the outdoors apparel company Mossy Oak, which specializes in camouflage outfits. His “good ol’ boy” image isn’t an act. And can he tell stories
Weekley was at Harbour Town in February and related the following to a room full of media folks. Weekley keeps his fishing pole, shotgun, and golf clubs in the back of his (what else) pickup. On his way to the airport for a flight to a tournament, a box of shotgun shells upended and two of them somehow worked their way into his golf bag.
The security people at the airport kept running his bag back and forth through the machine and finally called him over. They told him about the shells. The Weekley said, “And I told them, that can’t be. The gun’s still in my truck. You should have seen the looks they gave me.”
Weekley will definitely have a good following.
The purse this year has been raised to $5.5 million, with the winner walking away with a check for $990,000. The purse for the first Heritage, which was held on Thanksgiving weekend, was a little smaller. In 1969, Arnold Palmer ended a 14-month victory drought and banked $20,000.
As tournament director,
Steve Wilmot, likes to remind everyone, the Verizon Heritage is charitable event. Last year the Heritage Classic Foundation distributed $1.8 million to charities, the arts, colleges via scholarships, and medical centers.
Remember, email or call us with any questions!
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Free Wireless Internet
In this campaign season, “free wireless internet in every vacation home” may sound like some presidential hopeful’s slogan (“a chicken in ever pot, a car in every garage” –
Herbert Hoover, 1928). But the fact is, every vacation home or villa we offer has gone high-speed wireless. And it’s all yours – free.
You’ve probably been to hotels that advertise “internet access available,” then you come to find out it’s “available” for $7.95 a day and it might not even be wireless! (This recently happened to us at a place where we were paying $200 a night for lodging). We hate that nickle and dime stuff. That’s why our internet access is absolutely free.
While we might suggest you leave your laptop or PDAs behind and simply enjoy the sunshine, fairways and beach, we also know it’s tough to be out of “e-touch” in this instant access world. If you’d like to know how to set up a vacation auto response in Windows Mail or Outlook Express,
click here.
However, if you need keep tabs on the office, schoolwork, the stock market or your kids, you’ll stay connected at any Vacation Company property you choose.
One of the more creative uses of the free internet access we’ve heard so far is a golfer putting a video of his swing up on
YouTube so his teaching pro, back at the golfer’s club in Ohio, could see it and tell him what he was doing wrong. We did not hear how well our guest play the next day.
It’s definitely golf season on Hilton Head Island. Come see us. And bring your Blackberry.
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News from the Links
If you haven’t heard, the 40th Verizon Heritage is April 14th-20 this year, and we are so excited! Not only is the tournament seven days of golf and fun in the sun, but it also helps raise money for charities. In 2007, $1.8 million raised was distributed to more than 100 groups in need.
As South Carolina’s only PGA Tour event, the tournament will be played at the Harbour Town Golf Links. For more information about the event, please visit their
Web site.
If you’re coming to town for the tournament, book with us now and get $100 off your rental rate. For select properties that will put you in the heart of Harbourtown, please visit
SeaPines2020.com.
We can’t wait to see you!
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Welcome to the Hilton Heads Up Blog!
If you love Hilton Head Island, whether you’re a frequent visitor or resident, we hope our new blog will become your source for what’s going on in the area, including tourism industry news, vacation tips, local events and the latest information about our company.
As you may know, we were founded in 1987 as a short-term rental and property management firm, and we now manage more than 280 villas and custom homes on Hilton Head.
So whether you are sitting at a desk in a cold location daydreaming about your Hilton Head vacation or you have a property we manage, be sure to check in with us every week for all the news you need to know about our beautiful island.
We want to hear your feedback and comments, so please feel free to comment on our posts!
Cheers,
Bob Hawkins and Beth Henzler
Owners, Vacation Company
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