Sea Island Resort

Sea Island Resorts’ longstanding history with golf began with the opening of the original Plantation course in 1927. Designed by Walter Travis, the nine-hole course extended across the site of former Retreat Plantation, on southern St. Simons Island.

In 1929, and again on St. Simons Island, British architects Harry S. Colt and Charles Alison sculpted Seaside, one of a handful of coastal links courses in North America. On August 1, 1930, Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones warmed up on Walter Travis’ first (Plantation) nine, then transitioned to Colt and Alison’s second (Seaside) nine, later to declare the coastal, windswept-links land to be “…one of the very best nine holes I have ever seen.” This memorable event punctuated Jones’ victory at the U.S. Open and his triumphant completion of the Grand Slam.

To this day, The Sea Island Golf Club continues to draw both amateurs and professionals to play on three of the game’s greatest courses. The Sea Island Golf Club’s fifty-four holes at Plantation, Seaside and Retreat occupy some of the country’s most scenic landscape, and they are consistently rated as among America’s greatest courses.