St Simons Island, GA
Sea Island Golf Club
Howard Coffin acquired Retreat Plantation in 1926. Golf followed in 1928 with the first nine holes of Plantation, then Seaside in 1929, establishing the resort’s earliest golfing ground on St. Simons Island.1
- Location
- St Simons Island, GA
- Courses
- 3 courses
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Golf beside an older plantation landscape
An 1825 corn barn became the golf clubhouse in 1929. Its later uses, alongside the development of the Lodge, preserve a link between the property’s agricultural buildings and its twentieth-century life as a golfing resort.1
Courses
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Championships
Results and dates 2 editions
U.S. Mid-Amateur
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Austin Eaton III
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U.S. Senior Amateur
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Merrill L. Carlsmith
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Sources and editorial notes7 references
Sources for this story
- Golf History Sea Island
Main historical narrative and course descriptions; stale future-event language excluded.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- Club mark source
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- USGA: U.S. Mid-Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 8, 2004 result row. Completed championship, finalists and final match margin are recorded. Match-play margin is not a stroke total. Actual date range transcribed from the retrospective championship results.
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Senior Amateur record book, page 7 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26SeniorAm.pdf; SHA-256 db447a8079c9a707c54710acb92d7da567e788bc38b4b449c065d542155ab300. Exact result row: 1963 (Oct. 7-12) Merrill L. Carlsmith d. William D. Higgins , 3 and 2; Sea Island G.C., St. Simons Island, Ga.; all match play; Entries: 494 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. The primary result confirms Sea Island Golf Club, St. Simons Island, but does not identify the historical Course. Do not infer a present Seaside, Plantation or Retreat routing.