[2] Overseen by engineer Seth Raynor, construction required that "thousands of pounds of sand" be pumped out of the bay to reclaim what had been a marsh.

[3][6] In 1942,[7] during World War II, the United States Navy acquired the property and destroyed the course to construct a naval base.

On two holes at high tide the surf scatters spray over the greens, while the ocean seems scarcely more than a drive, a brassey and approach from any of the tees.

The course proper covers 115 acres, over seven of which flows the lagoon, an artificial lake dredged twelve feet deep with made-land in the centre constituting the island hole....

The home hole was built after the design of the best of more than one hundred plans submitted in a prize contest conducted in England for the best two-shot stretch.

[8] Golf historian Peter Flory spent years studying the original course's design and created a virtual, 3-D computer simulation.

Designed by architect Gil Hanse alongside business partner Jim Wagner, Ballyshear Golf Links features 18 holes reinterpreted to fit the site's landscape.