People & the land Architect
Architect
Davis Love III
Davis Love III and his brother Mark redesigned Sea Island’s Plantation Course in 2019, returning to a course they grew up playing. Their work drew on Walter Travis’s original nine-hole design and other early golf architecture.12
In the archive 4 Courses at 2 ClubsDated work 2001–2019
Course work
Published course connections in the archive.
- Redesign
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- Redesign
- Co-designAerie short-course design
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- Original designSpeedway, the separate eighteen-hole putting course beside The Lodge. Movable hole locations; not the Seaside or Plantation championship routing.
Remaking the Course He Grew Up On
Sea Island’s account describes a reduction in bunker area from about 250,000 to 90,000 square feet. The Loves replaced steep-faced sand hazards with flatter-bottomed ones that were easier to enter, leave and maintain, while enlarging the putting greens. Their earlier Sea Island work includes the 2001 redesign of Retreat.13
Sources and record notes8 references
Sources for this history
- The Groundwork for Golf
Sea Island
Primary page paragraphs describing the named architect and project, reviewed in the retained original.
Consulted 2026-11-14 - Plantation Course
Sea Island
Primary page paragraphs describing the named architect and project, reviewed in the retained original.
Consulted 2026-11-14 - Retreat Course
Sea Island
Primary page paragraphs describing the named architect and project, reviewed in the retained original.
Consulted 2026-11-14
Architect record sources
- Love Golf Design team (opens in a new tab)Architect identity
- Hazeltine National official club inventory (opens in a new tab)Course design
- Sea Island (opens in a new tab)Course design
- Sea Island (opens in a new tab)Course design
- Sea Island: Speedway Putting Course (opens in a new tab)Course design