Nelle Smith can’t follow the golfers in person this year, but she’ll be watching the RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing on television — at Beaufort Memorial Hospital.
Nelle was part of the first tournament, and at 90 and two weeks on the yon side of back surgery, she’ll still be a part of the 54th one, even if it is only to tell a busy nurse, “The course looks so pretty,” or “the island looks so good.” That’s a glimpse at the spunk that got us here.
Nell’s Harbour Shop was the first shop in Harbour Town, a gift shop she operated from 1971 to 1996, even though she told John when he leased the prime location that she wanted it in writing that she would have nothing at all to do with the shop.