RBC Heritage tickets have sold out. How many fans will be at Hilton Head’s biggest event?
Tickets for Hilton Head Island’s biggest event of the year are officially sold out.
The RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing golf tournament announced Saturday morning that it has sold out of tickets for the PGA Tour event, which runs from Monday to next Sunday. (The course is closed to spectators Monday.)
Angela McSwain, director of marketing and communications for the Heritage Classic Foundation, said Friday there were 120,000 tickets available this year, so the tournament expects 120,000 spectators to attend the event between Tuesday and Sunday, April 17.
For context: In 2019, there were 135,000 attendees, according to tournament organizers.
“We realized on Saturday in 2019 we couldn’t get another person on the course. Traffic, parking, gallery movement, lines at concession stands and restrooms ... those things did not make for an optimum experience. We’ve come off that number of tickets,” Steve Wilmot, the tournament director, recently said.
The Heritage, meanwhile, had no spectators in 2020 and limited attendance to 20% of its normal turnout in 2021 as a COVID-19 precaution. (Using the crowd numbers from 2019, The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette previously estimated that 27,000 people were expected at the Heritage last year.)
The 2022 tournament at Harbour Town Golf Links will be the biggest event on Hilton Head since the coronavirus first hit South Carolina in March 2020. Tournament play begins Thursday.
All of the newspapers’ reporting about the Heritage can be found online at: bit.ly/HeritageCoverage
The event schedule can be found online at: bit.ly/HeritageEventSchedule
This story was originally published April 9, 2022 at 11:30 AM.
