Sea Island Golf Club

About Sea Island Golf Club:

At Sea Island, Davis Love III learned how to play golf from his father, practiced with his brother, and introduced the game to his son. His story could easily be the story of any Sea Island guest. Because where else can you get championship golf courses, top instructors, new teeing areas and practice greens and a brand new, 17,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Golf Performance Center? All added to everything else there is to discover at Sea Island. From juniors just starting out to PGA champions—and everyone in between—there’s no better place for a golfer to learn and grow. Technologies and facilities that reach into the future, in a setting that honors traditions of the past.The Sea Island Golf Club at The Lodge includes three championship golf courses: Plantation, Retreat, and the historic Seaside Course, host of the PGA TOUR's McGladrey Classic. The Golf Learning Center is home to an award-winning staff, and regularly trains some of today's best professional golfers.

Sea Island Company founder Howard Coffin knew that playing golf would be important for his future guests’ enjoyment. In 1926 he purchased Retreat Plantation, a former Sea Island cotton plantation on St. Simons Island, which had been owned and managed before the Civil War by Anna Matilda Page King. After the war, the land was made available by descendants of the King family. Golf became an integral part of the Sea Island experience early on, with the first nine-hole course, Plantation, opening in June 1928. Coffin had hired Walter Travis, an eminent course designer and British and U.S. Amateur champion, to create it.