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.

Courses: 4 courses
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Courses

Plantation18 holes · par 72 · Opened 1928

Retreat18 holes · par 72

Seaside18 holes · par 70 · Opened 1929

Speedway Putting Course18 holes

Course design

Charles AlisonCo design · Seaside

Davis Love IIIRedesign · Plantation · 2019Redesign · Retreat · 2001Original design · Speedway Putting Course

Harry ColtCo design · Seaside

Mark LoveRedesign · Plantation · 2019Redesign · Retreat · 2001Original design · Speedway Putting Course

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Rees JonesRedesign · Plantation · 1998

Tom FazioRedesign · Seaside

Walter TravisOriginal design · Plantation

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.

Championships

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Results and dates 24 editions

The RSM Classic

2010
The McGladrey Classic
Heath Slocum
2011
The McGladrey Classic
Ben Crane
2012
The McGladrey Classic
Tommy Gainey
2013
The McGladrey Classic
Chris Kirk
2014
The McGladrey Classic
Robert Streb
2015
Kevin Kisner
2016
Mackenzie Hughes
2017
Austin Cook
2018
Charles Howell III
2019
Tyler Duncan
2020
Robert Streb
2021
Talor Gooch
2022
Adam Svensson
2023
Ludvig Åberg
2024
Maverick McNealy
2025
Sami Valimaki

U.S. Senior Women's Amateur

1971
Carolyn Cudone
September 29–October 1, 1971
1980
Dorothy Germain Porter
September 24–26, 1980
1988
Lois Hodge
September 28–30, 1988
1994
Marlene Streit
September 21–23, 1994
2000
Carol Semple Thompson
September 18–23, 2000
2006
Diane Lang
October 7–12, 2006

U.S. Mid-Amateur

2004
Austin Eaton III
October 2–7, 2004

U.S. Senior Amateur

1963
Merrill L. Carlsmith
October 7–12, 1963

In the archive

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Sources and editorial notes10 references

Sources for this story

Golf History Sea Island
Main historical narrative and course descriptions; stale future-event language excluded.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Passages:Introduction Golf beside an older plantation landscape, paragraph 2

Record sources9 references

Club mark source
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PGA TOUR: 2026 Media Guide, calendar-year winners Printed and PDF page 79 explicitly records 2025 winner Sami Valimaki. The event is completed. Exact competition dates remain unset: published tournament-week ranges can include practice/pro-am days and are not imported as playing dates. The 2016 playoff finished on Monday; no Sunday finish is assumed.
USGA: 2023 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Record Book PDF page 8, column L, 2006 result row. 2006 (Oct. 7-12) Diane Lang d. Anna Schultz, 1 up; Sea Island G.C. (Seaside Course), Saint Simons Island, Ga.; Medalist — 145, Cecilia Mourgue D’Algue; Entries: 543 Archived original SHA-256 b11bffa8bcf2ce8ed0bcb695a50e8ffd8fb1bde8f7273b8ce64f64963a2aa835. Champion and runner-up are distinct from the qualifying medalist. Match margins are not stroke totals.
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.