Sign of the times: Hilton Head goes smoke free in May.
You can smoke a drive or burn the edge of the cup on a Hilton Head golf vacation, but if you try to do the same with a cigarette or cigar at the 19th hole, you could get hit with a $500 fine.
That’s because Hilton Head is the latest of many local governments in the Lowcountry area to ban indoor smoking in public places.
The law was passed a week ago and goes into effect on May 1, 2007, just after the PGA Tour comes to town to play the Verizon Heritage tournament at Harbour Town Golf Links. (No word if cigar-chomping Miguel Angel Jimenez is scheduled to play.)
The law does not include hotel rooms, so if smoking is something you like to do on a Hilton Head golf vacation, you are free to do it there to your, er, heart’s content.
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