Harbour Town Golf Links its entire left side is guarded by the sound and the right is lined with out of bounds stakes. The red-and-white-striped Harbour Town lighthouse is a backdrop, often a good target for approach shots to the green. Harbour Town Golf Links hosts the RBC Heritage on the PGA Tour, held in April the weekend following the Masters Tournament. Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) now sponsors the golf tournament after Verizon discontinued their sponsorship of the event following the 2010 event. It is the only PGA Tour event that is annually held in South Carolina. The PGA Championship was played at
Green Jacket Shoal Prior to a major 2015 cleanup effort, the Rhode Island Sea Grant funded a study of the debris in Green Jacket Shoal. In November 2015, marine archaeologist David Robinson of the University of Rhode Island counted 26 shipwrecks, making it the state's largest ship graveyard. In 2018, he increased the number to 29 wrecks, supplementing his dives with help from local libraries and archives. Two of the ships are well known sidewheeler steamboats from the late 1800s and early 1900s: the "Bay Queen" and the "Mount Hope", passenger boats measuring 182 feet and 193 feet, respectively. Others are more recent,