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Tiger's Eye Golf Links, Ocean
Ridge Plantation's crown jewel, is an upscale daily-fee 18 hole
golf course carved from a virgin pine and hardwood forest in
Sunset Beach, N.C.Designed by golf course architect and land
planner Tim Cate, Tiger's Eye is one of three championship layouts
at Ocean Ridge Plantation -- Panther's Run, Cate's first solo
effort, and Lion's Paw.Cate and Ed Gore Sr., the visionary behind
Ocean Ridge Plantation, have been collaborating on the planning,
designing and routing of Tiger's Eye for the past several years.Cate
took advantage of the land's setting, giving each hole its own
unique personality.The varying challenges of the greens mirror
the classic look and feel of Pinehurst. The generous, undulated,
fast-paced greens, which resemble warped plywood, yield numerous
pin placements that are obscured from view and guarded by water
and/or sand hazards.The mature long leaf pine groves also add
to the Pinehurst look of Tiger's Eye, but the mature, dense
hardwood forest that lines the fairways and encircles the greens
remind golfers that they're in the Lowcountry.
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